Maine

A great white shark was spotted off the coast of Maine Thursday afternoon, according to Wells police, about two and a half weeks after the state’s first deadly shark attack. Several beachgoers alerted a lifeguard around noon, police said, to say they had spotted fins in the water off of Wells Beach. As lifeguards were about to investigate with...

New England states reported an additional 378 coronavirus cases and 27 new deaths on Wednesday. Massachusetts reported 229 new confirmed coronavirus cases Wednesday along with 18 deaths. The Massachusetts Department of Public Health has now confirmed 8,547 deaths and 113,198 cases. A closely watched metric, the percentage of coronavirus tests coming back positive, on average, is down to a new…

New England states reported an additional 638 coronavirus cases and 12 new deaths on Tuesday. Massachusetts reported 10 newly confirmed deaths linked to COVID-19 on Tuesday — bringing the total number of confirmed and probable deaths to 8,751 since the start of the pandemic. The state also on Tuesday reported 392 newly confirmed and probable cases of the disease caused…

Outdoor school options are being explored as viable options as instructors struggle with ways to return kids to school

A new report says that nearly 12,000 children in New England have tested positive for the coronavirus through July 30. Massachusetts had the bulk of the childhood COVID cases, with 6,903, followed by Connecticut at 2,497 and Rhode Island with 1,616. New Hampshire, Maine and Vermont had fewer than 1,000 childhood coronavirus cases combined, according to the report from the…

President Trump signed executive orders Saturday aimed at providing coronavirus relief to struggling families and businesses. Among the orders is $400 a week in expanded unemployment benefits, partly paid for and distributed by each state. It’s unclear which states can afford it, how fast money can be sent out, or if it’s even constitutional.

New England states reported an additional 322 coronavirus cases and 14 new deaths on Sunday. The numbers don’t include data from Rhode Island and Connecticut, which don’t report new cases on weekends. Another 286 people have tested positive for the new coronavirus and 14 more people with the virus have died, Massachusetts health officials said Sunday. There have now been…

The past week was another busy one for shark sightings. Sharks were spotted off the coast of Maine, off Hampton Beach in New Hampshire, off Nantucket, and mostly swimming and feeding off Cape Cod. This summer, sharks have been spotted further north than in recent years, in areas like New Hampshire and southern Maine, where a woman was fatally attacked…

Maine authorities say the body of a Massachusetts man was found in the Webhannet River after authorities responded to a report of an unoccupied sailboat. Maine Marine Patrol identified the man Sunday as 61-year-old Robert Rasche of Bellingham, Massachusetts. Officials say Marine Patrol received a report around 11 a.m. Saturday of the unoccupied 21-foot sailboat adrift in the river. Officers…

Maine Marine Patrol identified the man Sunday as 61-year-old Robert Rasche of Bellingham, Massachusetts.

Navy shipbuilder Bath Iron Works and production workers reached a tentative agreement to end a strike that has stretched on for more than a month during a pandemic, officials announced Saturday. The proposal, which was unanimously endorsed by the union’s negotiating team, will be put forth to the 4,300 members of Machinists Local S6 later this month, said Jay Wadleigh,…

The president announced a series of executive orders, which addressed jobless payments and deferred payroll tax.

After four months of no service due to the coronavirus pandemic, a New Hampshire-based bus line is ready to hit the road again.

After four months of no service, New Hampshire-based Concord Coach Lines will begin running a limited schedule in New England again. The company, along with Dartmouth Coach and Boston Express, will have dozens of busses back on roads from Boston’s Logan Airport to Bangor, Maine, on Aug. 16. “We’re running a reduced service,” said Benjamin Blunt, Concord Coach Lines’...

New England states reported an additional 340 coronavirus cases and 35 new deaths on Thursday. Massachusetts on Thursday reported that 32 more people with coronavirus have died and 162 new cases were detected. There have now been 8,470 deaths and 111,533 cases reported in the state, according to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. The percentage of coronavirus tests coming…

Swimmers were ordered out of the water at several Cape Cod beaches on Thursday morning due to shark sightings.

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.

A day after high wind from Tropical Storm Isaias knocked trees sideways and downed power lines, Maine is sawing its way back to normal. At the power outages’ peak, there were 92,000 customers in the dark, according to Central Maine Power. By Wednesday morning, that number had decreased by tens of thousands, with 60% of those who lost power expected…

Tropical Storm Isaias left some Maine businesses with a long wait to bring back power.