Every shelter pet has a story. Some have overcome extraordinary odds while others traveled great distances to get a second lease on life.

From “foster failure” to adoption success story, one family in Maine can’t imagine its home without its furry friend. Last summer, Janice Ribeiro and her son, Sam, started feeling like they were ready to have a dog again. Their previous pet had passed away, and they wanted to ease back in to pet ownership. They decided to be a foster...

A new trade deal between Canada and the European Union has New England fishermen reeling, worried that their live lobster exports won’t be able to compete.

An Albanian national who talked about joining ISIS and attacking random people to avenge a shooting at a New Zealand mosque was arrested at a gun range in Montana, authorities said.

A fisherman in a quiet, coastal Maine community recently made an explosive discovery. Investigators say the fisherman caught a military ballistic projectile in his gear, brought it on board, and left it on the Bailey Island Lobster Wharf in Harpswell for 24 hours. According to authorities, the owner of the wharf discovered the device that read “live ammunition” and called 911.

A fisherman in Harpswell, Maine recently found a missile twisted up in his fishing net. The state police bomb squad detonated the device in a nearby sandpit, but the origins of the device are still unknown.

A moving tribute to America’s veterans is traveling through New England this week, on its way to Arlington National Cemetery. The 27th annual Wreaths Across America convoy is transporting thousands of made-in-Maine wreaths to decorate soldier’s headstones.

The tribute to America’s veterans is making its way through New England.

The legacy of George H.W. Bush will live on in Maine through his philanthropy and support of Gary’s House in Portland. The home is affiliated with Mercy Hospital and allows patients and their family members at area medical facilities to have a place to stay for free.

The legacy of George H.W. Bush will live on in Maine through his philanthropy and support of Gary’s House in Portland.

Since Saturday, people have been stopping by Walker’s Point to drop off items at a memorial for President George H.W. Bush. On Tuesday, it was time for town officials in Kennebunkport to do the same. Selectmen have hung a large wreath across the street on Ocean Avenue. A white ribbon contains a distinguished flying cross medal, the same award President...

People in Kennebunkport, Maine, paid their respects to former President George H.W. Bush Tuesday with a wreath-laying ceremony.

President George H.W. Bush may have lived in a gated compound on the coast of Maine, but he was always sure to get out into the community, forming lasting friendships with everyone from business owners to wait staff in the Kennebunkport area.

Former President George H.W. Bush made a strong impact on neighbors in Kennebunkport, Maine.

The rain hasn’t stopped people from making the trip to the small town of Kennebunkport, Maine to pay their respects to George H.W. Bush. “I think it’s just important that we recognize everything that he did,” Kim Sullivan, who visited the memorial to Bush, said.

The rain hasn’t kept people from coming to the memorial set up outside of the Bush’s compound in Kennebunkport, Maine to pay their respects to the man they knew and loved.