Bill Love, who lives on Boyden Lake in Perry, didn't have to worry about getting in over his head this year when he put out his dock in June. He relates that, in most years, the water would come to ...

Coastal and other Downeast property owners may be in for a surprise when their insurance is up for renewal. The winter season of high winds, storm surges and driving rain causing flying roof shingles ...

The idle Jonesboro biomass plant is expected to restart in February or March of the coming year, following the sale of the plant, along with six other biomass plants in Maine, New Hampshire and ...

The alewife, long recognized by the Passamaquoddy people as the "fish that feeds all," is coming back to its ancestral spawning grounds in record numbers after decades of contending with obstructed ...

Because of the pandemic, Memorial Day observances are not being scheduled or are being scaled back this year, but the sacrifices of those who died in service to this country are still remembered and ...

Last winter a temporary bridge was installed over a portion of the Machias dike harboring a failing baffle system that for more than 100 years has regulated the flow of water between Middle River, ...

The largest river restoration project on the East Coast is in progress on the St. Croix River as a collaboration of cross border entities, represented by the International St. Croix River Watershed ...

Tractors stand at the ready along rolling wild blueberry barrens Downeast, where fields of naked stems offer no hint of the glorious techno color display to come. By late spring, roughly 47,000 acres ...

Hunger is a significant problem in Washington County, and it is on the rise. Recent food insecurity reports place the county as having the least regular access to food in New England, for both ...

On Veterans Day this year, family and friends remembered a Vietnam vet from Baileyville who, after the war, dedicated his life to having the federal government acknowledge its responsibility for the ...

Old buildings, increased costs, historic storms and public safety challenges, all while dealing with day to day business, are what face newly hired Washington County Manager Renee Gray. Now with six ...