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A monthlong streak without coronavirus patients has been broken at Bar Harbor’s Mount Desert Island Hospital as visitors amid the pandemic raise problems for what is usually a bustling tourist region. Three people, including Maine residents and visitors, tested positive there last week, adding to dozens of cases earlier in the summer. The hospital has also been taking calls...

Dozens of coronavirus cases have been brought to the Bar Harbor area by tourists, and testing delays are making cases difficult to track. A cruise ship company wants to begin making calls there as well.

Seasonal ferry service between Maine and Nova Scotia is scheduled to resume this summer. Bay Ferries, the Canadian ferry company, says service is expected to begin by June 26. Company CEO Mark MacDonald says the Cat, a high-speed catamaran, will sail between Yarmouth, Nova Scotia to Bar Harbor until Labor Day. Crossings will then run six days a week _…

The federal government has awarded about $2.8 million to a Maine science lab for projects that will focus on genetics.

A man who was captured on video hauling the lifeless body of a former high school classmate into the woods was sentenced to 58 years in prison on Wednesday for raping and killing her. Jalique Keene was seen on surveillance video carrying the woman over his shoulder as she kicked her legs and then later carrying her limp body into...

The National Park Service says three people are dead and a fourth injured following a roll-over crash in Acadia National Park in Maine.

Two fishermen got an up-close look at a great white shark Tuesday when their boat got close to a whale carcass. Matty Riley and Ken Roth were out lobstering in Cape Cod Bay around 11 a.m. when the shark approached their vessel. A video captured by Riley shows the close encounter.

A shark sighting Saturday afternoon temporarily closed a Cape Cod beach to swimming. Head of the Meadow Beach in Truro is closed to swimmers until 5 p.m. after a shark was spotted nearby its shoreline.

Town beaches in Plymouth, Massachusetts, have been temporarily closed to swimmers after a confirmed shark sighting. Swimming at Plymouth beaches will be suspended for three hours after the harbormaster received a report from a lobsterman who said he saw a nearly 9-foot long white shark at the surface alongside his boat.

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A bloody scene has shut down a Cape Cod beach after a shark was spotted feeding just 70 feet from the shore. The sighting was reported off Coast Guard Road in North Truro, where blood was seen on the water. The report stated witnesses saw a seal, a fin and an “eruption of blood” in the water.

Cape Air will soon begin offering year-round service between Boston’s Logan International Airport and Portland International Jetport. The Massachusetts-based airline announced Tuesday it will be offering four daily round-trip flights in mid-September.

Starting this fall, Cape Air will begin offering year-round service between Boston’s Logan International Airport and Portland International Jetport.

A 32-year-old bicyclist was critically injured in a hit-and-run in Brewster, Massachusetts.

Researchers on Cape Cod are launching a new study focused on the hunting and feeding habits of the region’s great white sharks following last year’s two attacks on humans. Greg Skomal, a state marine biologist leading the effort, says the hope is to contribute critical information to the ongoing debate over how to keep Cape beachgoers safe.

An atomic bomb survivor is delivering the commencement address at the College of the Atlantic in Maine.

Several people are without a home after a fire broke out at a historic building in Bourne, Massachusetts.

Last week, many New Englanders were sad to hear about the death of Vector the whale. The female humpback, tracked by scientists for more than 30 years, was found lifeless in Cape Cod Bay..

Beachgoers flocked to Sandwich, Massachusetts Tuesday morning to capture a devastating sight – a deceased, overturned whale off Cape Cod. The beached whale was reported some time before 10:30 a.m. in East Sandwich, where the marine animal’s remnants could be seen on the sand.

One man was hospitalized after a pursuit ended in a fiery crash on Cape Cod.