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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 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...

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

Maine State Police say a 46-year-old man was killed in a car crash after he lost control of his vehicle in Wells.

An agreement announced Wednesday between the state of Vermont and the owner of a closed industrial site blamed for contaminating drinking water supplies should bring relief to a few hundred homeowners in the Bennington area.

Maine State Police say a 46-year-old man was killed in a car crash after he lost control of his vehicle in Wells.

A 19-year-old man was killed in a single-vehicle crash Tuesday that resulted in the partial closure of the Maine Turnpike in Wells. State police say the crash occurred at approximately 6:30 a.m. in the northbound lane after a car struck the median guardrail and slammed into a group of trees.

“The Warriors” name will remain, but mascots at public schools in Wells, Maine, will no longer incorporate Native American imagery.

Wildfires reportedly burned more than 100 acres of land in multiple parts of Maine Wednesday.

The tides have torn up parts of Maine’s coast, and there is little time to clean up the damage before the next nor’easter hits.

After just 10 days of collecting hurricane relief supplies, a filled tractor trailer will be heading down to Florida.

The Air Force says it will spend $30 million this year on cleaning up contaminated groundwater at a former New Hampshire base.

Two people were killed in a 2-vehicle crash that caused massive backups on Interstate 95 in Wells on Friday afternoon.