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While the summer season was strong, state officials say they'd like to see more first-time visitors discover some of Maine's lesser known regions during the offseason, as they did during the recent solar eclipse.
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Beginning in June, the cost of a round-trip ticket to Peaks Island will rise from less than $8.00 to $14.00 during the peak summer season, which runs from mid-April to mid-October.
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The guidelines require schools to limit added sugars to less than 10% of weekly calories, and also make reductions in sodium.
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Superintendents say that new state funding can't fully cover rising salaries, benefits, transportation and special education costs that are leading some districts to propose reducing staff.
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Friends of Casco Bay has partnered with other environmental groups to study healthy eelgrass beds this summer in hopes of finding a way to restore eelgrass habitat. Learn more at their webinar Thursday.
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The metro area has ranked among the cleanest cities for ozone for seven years in a row, and for its daily measure of particle pollution for the last 15 years.
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This summer, York and Cumberland Counties will update floodplain maps from the Federal Emergency Management Agency for the first time in years. The maps show that hundreds of additional property owners may face flood risks.
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The White House announces attorney Stacey Neumann as its choice for a successor to U.S. District Judge Jon Levy.
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More than 95% of school-age children have received all required vaccines. According to the Maine CDC, this is the first year that the state has exceeded what's known as the "herd immunity" threshold since reporting began in 2011.
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The cause was at first believed to have been a mechanical problem. But it was later learned that the USS Eagle 56 was actually the second-to-last ship sunk by Nazi Germany in the final days of World War II.