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The leading environmental opponent of a $1 billion electric transmission line in western Maine asked state regulators to revoke a permit for the project following a referendum vote this week. Maine residents voted Tuesday to halt the New England Clean Energy Connect. But the outcome doesn’t go into effect for about two months — 30 days after the election is…

Voters in Maine delivered a firm rejection to an international and interstate hydropower transmission project, though construction continues.

Mainers voiced their disapproval Tuesday for a 145-mile conduit for Canadian hydropower that was billed as either a bold step in battling climate change or unnecessary destruction of woodlands. Utilities have poured more than $90 million into the battle over the $1 billion project ahead of the referendum on Tuesday, making it the most expensive referendum in Maine history. However,…

If you live in Massachusetts, voters in Maine may influence where your electric power comes from through a ballot question on a major transmission line project.

Maine voters are weighing in Tuesday on a 145-mile conduit for Canadian hydropower that’s billed as either a bold step in battling climate change or an unnecessary destruction of woodlands. More than $66 million was spent on the battle over the $1 billion project ahead of the referendum on Tuesday. But the statewide vote won’t be the final word. Litigation…

Mainers have weighed in on a number of high-profile ballot questions — casinos, universal health care, marijuana legalization, assisted suicide, abortion and same-sex marriage, to name a few. None of them come close to the level of spending as the battle over a 145-mile electricity transmission line.

As leaf-peepers descend on Vermont, the state’s largest city said it hopes increased traveler numbers will be one component in its long-term economic recovery from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Vermont’s commerce secretary, Lindsay Kurrle, noted the state has seen strong visitation this summer and fall from domestic travelers, who likely heard Vermont has done a lot better...

Leaf peepers are descending on New England, and Vermont’s tourism business is looking to cash in after the pandemic.

Seven people apprehended after entering Vermont illegally from Quebec by driving across the lawn of a library built in both the United States and Canada were immediately returned to Canada, the U.S. Border Patrol said Thursday. Surveillance videos released by the Border Patrol shows the car drive by the Haskell Free Library and Opera House in Derby Line on...

Residents of a town in Quebec, Canada, voted to change the name of the town to something not associated with the hazardous mineral.

Vermont State Police are helping to search Lake Champlain for a missing kayaker from Quebec. Police say 79-year-old Laurent Messier, of St-Armand, Quebec, was reported missing by his wife around 8 p.m. Monday. He had left his lakefront home around 2:30 p.m. that day and planned to kayak to Venise-en-Quebec. His empty kayak was spotted by a crew in a…

A Massachusetts youth hockey coach awaiting trial for child rape charges was located and arrested Friday morning, after failing to turn himself in to a Vermont court on Thursday. He was released on bail earlier this month after he met certain conditions due to rulings by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in two unrelated cases.

A youth hockey coach awaiting trial for child rape charges is expected to be released on bail following rulings by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in two unrelated cases. Thirty-three-year-old Christopher Prew of Marblehead is accused of sexually assaulting eight boys under the age of 14. He had been held without bail since a court appearance in March of 2018.

The Trump administration on Wednesday moved to topple California as a leading voice against climate change, charging in a federal lawsuit that the state exceeded its constitutional authority by joining with a Canadian province in a program to cut climate-damaging fossil fuel emissions.

A friendly disagreement has emerged between two New England states, following a bold claim from a Vermont official that his state is home to the best fall foliage available on the planet — or anywhere else imaginable, for that matter. “We like to say it’s the ‘world’s best fall foliage,'” said Mike Snyder, the commissioner of the Vermont Department of...

Officials from both the U.S. and Canada gathered on a one-of-a-kind bridge in Vermont Monday to celebrate its reopening. A bridge first opened on the site in 1918, but was destroyed in the 1927 flood, said Joe Flynn, the secretary of the Vermont Agency of Transportation. That bridge was replaced in 1929, he said, and rebuilt again in 1979.

A cold front will traverse across New England today, bringing increased clouds and scattered showers to the region. It will be an otherwise nice, late-summer day with highs in the low to mid 80s south, mid to upper 70s in the North Country.

The trial of a Massachusetts youth hockey coach charged with sexually abusing 10 boys has been delayed until May. The Salem News reports that 32-year-old Christopher Prew, of Winthrop, was arrested in February 2018 after the mother of a 9-year-old boy went to Marblehead police to allege he had been touching her son inappropriately.