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 ...

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 ...

The tribal government at Sipayik is proceeding with plans to move its wastewater treatment plant because of the risks posed by rising sea levels, flooding and storm surges. Several potential sites ...

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 ...

Since the launch in November of 2023 of a sports-betting partnership with DraftKings, a digital sports entertainment company based in Boston, the Passamaquoddy Tribe has earned nearly $30 million in ...

Efforts to restore the alewife runs on the St. Croix River, which once supported one of the largest runs of alewives in the northeastern U.S. and Atlantic Canada and has the greatest production ...

Earning a living in a rural county is not easy regardless of what state you're in, but if you're in Maine and you're a woman it's even harder still. Washington County has the second highest gender pay ...

The perseverance of a teenage student at Washington Academy, her family and other supporters to address racist behavior at the private school in East Machias has led to a new state law that requires ...

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 ...

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 ...

The U.S. Coast Guard's proposal to discontinue 154 navigational buoys in Maine, with 12 in the Quoddy area, including all of the buoys in the Lubec Channel, is being opposed by some local mariners, ...