Maine

America’s lobster fishing business dipped in catch while grappling with challenges including a changing ocean environment and new rules designed to protect rare whales. The lobster industry, based mostly in Maine, has had an unprecedented decade in terms of the volume and value of the lobsters brought to the docks. But members of the industry...

The incident took place on United Flight 883, which was headed from Heathrow Airport to Newark Liberty International Airport.

Maine State Police say the deaths of two people whose bodies were found inside a home in Milford on Wednesday have been ruled suicides. Police responded to the residence around 5 p.m. Wednesday for a well-being check and found two people dead inside. The bodies were taken to the chief medical examiner’s office in Augusta, where autopsies were...

Democrats in the Maine Legislature unveiled sweeping gun violence measures on Wednesday including a 72-hour waiting period for most gun purchases, adding to firearm bills and mental health spending already proposed by the governor after the deadliest shooting in the state history. Senate President Troy Jackson said lawmakers are not interested in t...

The parents and grandmother of a 10-year-old who died in Bangor, Maine, earlier this month have been charged in connection with the child’s death, according to News Center Maine. The 10-year-old was brought to a local hospital with life-threatening injuries on the morning of Feb. 18 and died later that night. The hospital notified the Maine D...

The town of Kittery, Maine, has given final approval to a plan that would demolish a shopping outlet and replace it with apartments and a hotel. That plan includes building a 107-unit apartment complex that would include 11 affordable housing units. It will also include a 119-room hotel and a commercial building meant for a restaurant. The Outlets ...

An Army reservist responsible for the deadliest shooting in Maine history received a glowing review from his superiors even as some of his family members were growing increasingly worried about his mental health. The annual evaluation from April 2023 indicated Robert Card, 40, of Bowdoin, was “a consummate professional” who “excelled as a squad lea...

Bye-bye, birdie: Maine’s state warbler, the chickadee, is making way for other images on a new license plate that gives homage to an old flag growing in popularity and reappearing on hats, tote bags and T-shirts. The plate unveiled Monday features a tall green pine — the state tree — and the North Star, icons featured on the state’s first&#82...

The organizers of the longest sled dog race in the eastern United States said Monday they are canceling the event due to a lack of snow on the ground. The Can-Am Crown International Sled Dog Races have taken place in northern Maine for more than three decades, including a 250-mile event that is the marquee sled dog race in New…

A 19-year-old Maine resident was critically injured in a crash on Interstate 95 in Augusta, Maine, on Monday morning. State police said they responded to the single-vehicle crash around 7:30 a.m. on I-95 near mile marker 113 in Augusta. Their initial investigation indicated that a silver 2003 Toyota Tacoma pickup truck driven by 19-year-old Jack Du...

The head of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives says he fears that a drumbeat of mass shootings and other gun violence across the United States could make Americans numb to the bloodshed, fostering apathy to finding solutions rather than galvanizing communities to act. Director Steve Dettelbach’s comments to The As...

Maine would become the 27th state to ban paramilitary training, under a bill the House narrowly passed Wednesday. The proposal, designed to block groups hoping to create civil unrest, passed 66-60. It was sponsored by Democratic Rep. Laurie Osher of Orono. The measure comes in the wake of a rise in public demonstrations by white nationalist groups ...

Maine’s governor rolled out legislation on Wednesday she said will prevent dangerous people from possessing weapons and strengthen mental health services to help prevent future tragedies like the Lewiston mass shooting that shook the state. Gov. Janet Mills, a Democrat, called for the changes in January in a speech that came three months afte...

Former President George H.W. Bush’s speedboat has a new owner. The 38-foot “Fidelity V” was auctioned for $435,000 during the George and Barbara Bush Foundation’s 2024 Presidential Salute benefiting the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum, and The Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University, a spokesp...

A state-owned site on the coast of Maine will serve as the location of an offshore wind port critical to developing the nation’s first floating offshore wind power research array, the state’s governor said Tuesday. Democratic Gov. Janet Mills signed a bill last year that Maine will procure enough energy from offshore wind turbines to po...

A 53-year-old woman was killed in a multiple-vehicle crash on the Maine Turnpike on Monday night. State police said they responded to a crash on Interstate 95 in Saco at 7:17 p.m. involving a tractor-trailer and two other vehicles. Their initial investigation showed that the driver of a Volvo S40 sedan rear-ended a Jeep Compass. The crash resulted ...