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An early morning fire on September 21 at a Machias trailer park claimed the lives of two people, while three people in a neighboring trailer were able to escape thanks to the quick actions of a ...
School officials hope for patience as students, parents and the education system prepares to return to classes across New Brunswick with COVID 19 still active. Provincial officials are using twice ...
With epidemiologists urging the importance of testing and contact tracing in combatting the coronavirus pandemic, Maine will need to increase both significantly in order to safely reopen. Currently, ...
The closure of all of the Pennamaquan River to scallop dragging because of the mooring field off the Pembroke boat landing on Hersey Neck has upset some scallop fishermen who would like to drag in ...
A historic Red Beach house may be demolished by the National Park Service (NPS), despite offers of help from the Portland‑based nonprofit Maine Preservation. The McGlashan‑Nickerson House, which is on ...
“Working with wood helps me make sense of the world,” says Erik Squire, who loves wood and surrounds himself with it every single day. The Connecticut-born woodworker has been hard at work since 1997, ...
The Pleasant Point Health Center (PPHC) did not meet a number of federal and tribal health and safety requirements for quality of care during the period from 2014 through 2016, according to a report ...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) environmental engineering graduate students Abby Harvey and Tchelet Segev, with their advisor, Dr. Kathleen Vandiver, presented and explained results of a ...
Eighty‑two Emera Maine customers voiced their opposition to the utility's latest request for a rate hike at public hearings held simultaneously at the University of Maine at Machias, Orono and Presque ...
Drug-related deaths continue to make headlines each day in the largest of urban areas and are having an even greater impact on small, rural populations. While drug abuse has saturated the landscape in ...
Four years after one of the main fish ladders on the St. Croix River was reopened following a 19-year closure, the alewife run on the river increased significantly this year, jumping nearly fivefold ...
Hurricanes Irma and Maria left behind horrible conditions in their paths through the Caribbean last month, and, in the case of St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands, everyone with Eastport area connections ...