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A nursing home in rural Maine has found a new partner after a difficult few weeks battling COVID-19 after months fighting the pandemic, which has killed more than a dozen of its residents. Nursing and medical students from the University of New England gained real-world experience they otherwise would not have had during the pandemic while the nursing home would...

A nursing home in Maine has found a new partner, the University of New England, after a difficult few weeks battling COVID-19.

Resuming on-campus classes is still up in the air for lots of colleges, but the University of New England in Maine has decided that classes will be back on campus as soon as summer.

Could a tiny fish be the reason your lobster roll costs just a little bit more? New quotas on herring are forcing Maine lobstermen to look at new types of bait to catch the crustaceans instead of traditional Atlantic herring.

A new virtual reality simulation is helping hospice workers and medical students see what it’s like to die. An end-of-life simulation by Embodied Labs is now educating staff and students at the Gosnell Memorial Hospice House in Scarborough, Maine. It’s also a required experience for medical students at the University of New England. Grant money awarded to UNE paid for...

A marine scientist who is studying whether white sharks are becoming more common in Maine waters say he has detected one of the big sharks for the third time in three years. University of New England professor James Sulikowski says he learned last week that an acoustic receiver detected a 12-foot female white shark on Sept. 2 off Stratton Island.

A University of New England pharmacy professor has received a patent for an innovation in the early detection of breast cancer.

Canadians are known as friendly folks, but these crabby brutes migrating from Canadian waters are better suited for the hockey rink. Green crabs from Nova Scotia are the same species as their cousins that already inhabit Maine waters, but are ornerier and angrier, threatening to accelerate harm to the coastal ecosystem by gobbling up soft-shell clams and destroying native eel...

Some scientists have a suggestion for pesky invasive green crabs that have been migrating to Maine waters and that is to eat them.

Some scientists have a suggestion for pesky invasive green crabs that have been migrating to Maine waters and that is to eat them.

There have been numerous shark sightings already this summer. The most recent sighting was Saturday off of Duxbury Beach in Massachusetts.

A shark was sighted off the Maine coast by a U.S. Coast Guard vessel on Monday.

The Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital is a major part of the legacy Barbara Bush will leave behind, and patients are wishing the former first lady well amid news of her failing health.

77-year-old Lester Taber was one of several people who tried to stop a man from stabbing 22-year-old Deane Kenny Stryker at the Winchester Public Library on Saturday.

The community is mourning the loss of Deane Kenny Stryker, the woman killed in a double stabbing at a Massachusetts library.

A marine biologist believes a humpback whale shielded her from a 15-foot tiger shark in the South Pacific. Nan Hauser said she didn’t understand the actions of the 25-ton whale that she met face-to-face in the Cook Islands. Then she saw the shark. She’s heard on a video telling the massive mammal, “I love you, too!” The encounter took place...

A marine biologist from Maine believes a humpback whale shielded her from a 15-foot tiger shark in the South Pacific.

A marine biologist believes a humpback whale shielded her from a 15-foot tiger shark in the South Pacific. Nan Hauser said she didn’t understand the actions of the 25-ton whale that she met face-to-face in the Cook Islands. Then she saw the shark. She’s heard on a video telling the massive mammal, “I love you, too!” The encounter took place...

A great white shark detected in waters off Maine could be a sign that the big fish will become a more common sight in the years to come, say scientists who study sharks in New England.

When you think of sharks in New England, you may picture Great Whites off of Cape Cod. But a shark researcher at the University of New England is putting Maine on the map, shedding new light on a little-known species in the Gulf of Maine.