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Lobster Harvesters Challenge Maine's Aquaculture Permitting Rules

Maine has had a small but growing aquaculture industry , but a proposal by the Mere Point Oyster Company to build a 40-acre oyster farm in Maquoit Bay in Brunswick has angered many local lobster harvesters. They’ve submitted a petition that would require the state to review its aquaculture permitting rules.

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Bail Denied For Mainer Who's Fighting Extradition To Alaska

Maine Has Lowest Screening Rates For Lead Poisoning In New England

Pollution Is Personal At A New Abbe Museum Exhibit

By Caitlin Troutman • 8 hours ago

The rapidly changing climate in Maine and New England is affecting lives – those of the people who depend on the region’s waters, as well as the species that live there. At the Abbe Museum in Bar Harbor, a new exhibit explores the connection between the First People and the northern waters, and how that relationship is evolving in reaction to climate change and pollution.

Maine’s Elected Republicans Take Two Tacks On Vice Chair’s Tweets: Condemnation, Avoidance

By Steve Mistler • 9 hours ago

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Maine’s Elected Republicans Take Two Tacks On Vice Chair’s Tweets: Condemnation, Avoidance

Republican leaders in Augusta are taking two approaches in responding to controversial statements made last week by Maine GOP vice chair Nick Isgro falsely linking immigrants to the outbreak of once-eradicated diseases: some are condemning Isgro's remarks, others are avoiding them altogether. Isgro, meanwhile, is standing by his assertion that Americans should be free to not vaccinate their children against disease.

Northern Light Health To Pursue Hospital Merger

By Patty Wight • 9 hours ago

Northern Light Health's Board of Directors gave unanimous approval Wednesday afternoon to pursue a merger with Mayo Regional Hospital in Dover-Foxcroft.

Fed Signals Rate Hikes May Be Over For 2019

By Scott Horsley • 10 hours ago

Updated at 4:16 p.m. ET

The Federal Reserve is signaling that it may be done hiking interest rates this year, amid signs of economic slowing.

State Urged To Prevent Exposure To Harmful Chemicals Found In Sewage Sludge

By Patty Wight • 10 hours ago

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State Urged To Prevent Exposure To Harmful Chemicals Found In Sewage Sludge

Two weeks after Gov. Janet Mills signed an executive order to study the prevalence of a family of chemicals that pose potential public health risks, environment and health advocates are urging her to do more. They staged their call to action Tuesday at a dairy farm in Arundel, where contamination from the chemicals known as PFAS was discovered two years ago.

Influenza Still A Problem As Spring Arrives In Maine

By Nora Flaherty • 11 hours ago

Maine's chief epidemiologist Siiri Bennett wants Mainers to know, “We are not done with flu yet.”

Maine Lawmakers Consider Expanding The Use Of Ranked-Choice Voting

By Mal Leary • 11 hours ago

State lawmakers are considering a series of bills to expand the use of ranked-choice voting in Maine elections. The first to have a public hearing is a measure to create presidential primary elections in Maine and apply ranked choice voting to those contests.

Trump Backs Public Release Of Mueller Report

By Brian Naylor • 11 hours ago

Amid signs that special counsel Robert Mueller will soon complete his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, President Trump says that he looks forward to seeing the report and that it should be made public.

Answering questions from reporters on the South Lawn of the White House prior to traveling to Ohio on Wednesday, Trump said of Mueller's report, "Let it come out. Let people see it — that's up to the attorney general."