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 ...

There are a lot of things that would lead a rock star to visit Lubec. But what would entice a rock star to move to Lubec and then call the town home? That question was put to Deb Lindsay, the new ...

While the Maine Supreme Judicial Court case over ownership of intertidal rockweed is being decided, the harvest of the seaweed is still stirring up passions for those living around Cobscook Bay.

Wabanaki leaders and citizens, legislators and allies rallied in Augusta on April 20 to celebrate what they believe is a historic sea change in tribal state relations, as three bills affecting the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The decades-long debate over federal licensing of Woodland Pulp's storage dams on the St. Croix River has gained greater local interest with the filing of legislation by Congressman Bruce Poliquin to ...

The traditional territory of the Passamaquoddy Tribe, centered around the St. Croix River, extends from Mount Desert Island in Maine to Point Lepreau in New Brunswick. But while the tribe has been ...

The former American Can Company building on the waterfront of downtown Eastport is about to start on a 21st century journey of restoration and reuse. The 36,000-square-foot brick structure, which was ...

While you may be aware that "necessity is the mother of invention," did you know that filial concern is the daughter of invention? Campobello Island's 16-year-old Rylee Foster turned her concern for ...

Some 83 scallop draggers are finding high prices but slim pickings in Cobscook Bay this year, and many fishermen are asking that the Department of Marine Resources (DMR) close the bay, or perhaps the ...

Step into the Lubec Brewing Company, and the warm wall colors, twinkling lights and comfortable furniture give a generous welcome. It's a microbrewery with a line‑up of craft beers that use hops grown ...