Maine

Maine is home to the last wild Atlantic salmon populations in the U.S., but a new push to protect the fish at the state level is unlikely to land them on the endangered list. Atlantic salmon once teemed in U.S. rivers, but now return from the sea to only a handful of rivers in eastern and central Maine. The...

The cocaine was wrapped in plastic with coffee grounds sprinkled on top, a tactic used by drug traffickers to hide the scent of the drug from K-9 dogs.

The number of new coronavirus cases has ticked up in Maine in recent weeks, but state health officials say they aren’t sounding the alarm about it yet. The state’s daily caseload had dwindled in early summer, with less than 20 new cases reported on some days in June and early July. That trend has reversed in mid-July as the...

An attorney who declined to be vaccinated for COVID-19 had to wear a mask during a trial this week after losing an appeal to the state supreme court. Darrick X. Banda, who likened the mask to “a dunce cap,” said the timing of new court rules this month didn’t give him time to be vaccinated, even if he’d wanted...

Two people were arrested in Gardiner, Maine, after DEA agents and police found $200,000 worth of cocaine in their car, including two pounds disguised as a cake.

The landing gear of a plane fell through the sky onto a Maine golf course earlier this week. All five people on board a twin-engine Piper PA 31 Navajo that had to make an emergency landing on Long Island in New York are OK, and no one was injured on the ground after the plane’s right main landing gear fell…

Equipment from an airplane fell through the sky onto a golf course in Gorham, Maine.

A trip to Maine might get a bit more expensive by the end of this year. To cover a COVID-19 related dip in revenue of $60 million, the Maine Turnpike Authority (MTA) is proposing to raise its tolls, effective Nov. 1. According to the authority, a toll hike was planned for 2028, but this increase would essentially begin that process…

To cover a COVID-19 related dip in revenue of $60 million, the Maine Turnpike Authority is proposing to raise its tolls, effective Nov. 1.

The retired captain of a charter fishing boat in southern Maine captured some incredible images of a shark feeding on a whale carcass off the coast of Drake’s Island in Wells on Friday morning. “It’s kind of a cool thing. Fun to watch,” said Steve Brettell, who snapped the photos. Brettell, who ran a charter fishing business for over...

Scientists at the New England Aquarium are asking for help identifying a great white shark that was spotted eating a dead whale off the coast of Maine at the end of last week. On Friday, Steve Brettell and a friend captured the shark on camera shortly before the whale carcass washed up on Mother’s Beach in Kennebunk. Brettell said...

The shark, which was spotted feeding on a whale in Kennebunk, isn’t tagged, scientists say.

A federal judge has ordered two men to pay back a total of more than $2.4 million for their role in defrauding a health care insurance provider for low-income people in Maine. One man was sentenced to two years in prison on Friday and the other received three years’ probation. Both pleaded guilty. Court records say they were Somali interpreters…

A bill requiring manufacturers to report their use of a class of toxic chemicals and phase them out by 2030 is the law in Maine. The law that took effect Thursday was one of several legislative proposals to address contamination so-called PFAS, which have long been used in a variety of consumer products. Mainers pleaded with lawmakers to help, and…

The small town of Milford, Maine, has a big rat problem.

The small Maine town of Milford has been getting attention in recent weeks because of a rat problem. According to Chief Josh Mailman of the Milford Fire Department, over the past week and a half to two weeks, the town has gotten a number of complaints about a number of rats in the area. Last week, the calls went down…

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The Pine Tree State boasts America’s lowest crime rate. But the infrastructure? You can’t get there from here.

Portland, Maine, ranked eighth on a new list of best places to live in the U.S. Residents are wondering if that will drive up housing costs…