Coastal and other Downeast property owners may be in for a surprise when their insurance is up for renewal. The winter season of high winds, storm surges and driving rain causing flying roof shingles ...

Bill Love, who lives on Boyden Lake in Perry, didn't have to worry about getting in over his head this year when he put out his dock in June. He relates that, in most years, the water would come to ...

In late March Eastport resident Tessa Chaffey Ftorek noticed a number of whipped cream canisters on the side of High Street near the cemetery and along outer Clark Street. When she went back to clean ...

The idle Jonesboro biomass plant is expected to restart in February or March of the coming year, following the sale of the plant, along with six other biomass plants in Maine, New Hampshire and ...

A Maine law enacted in March 2020, An Act To Protect Consumers from Surprise Emergency Medical Bills, and a new 2021 federal law, the No Surprises Act (NSA), are meant to help patients with surprise ...

Last winter a temporary bridge was installed over a portion of the Machias dike harboring a failing baffle system that for more than 100 years has regulated the flow of water between Middle River, ...

The largest river restoration project on the East Coast is in progress on the St. Croix River as a collaboration of cross border entities, represented by the International St. Croix River Watershed ...

Three senior officials of Cooke Aquaculture, the largest producer of farmed salmon in eastern North America, and one of its subsidiary companies are being charged with releasing a banned pesticide ...

Tractors stand at the ready along rolling wild blueberry barrens Downeast, where fields of naked stems offer no hint of the glorious techno color display to come. By late spring, roughly 47,000 acres ...

The Downeast region is sometimes characterized by two extremes: scarcity and generosity. Those who have help those who don't, time and again, and through the charitable intentions of volunteers and ...

A collection of sites in Lubec previously identified as possibly having a connection to Norse settlements in the region is raising interest from those with backgrounds in anthropology. While evidence ...

After 15 years, the alewife harvest has returned to the Pennamaquan River in Pembroke. The resumption of the harvest has been hailed by town officials and biologists alike as a welcome return and a ...