Carol Bousquet
Weekend Edition Host and Producer-
Cyrus Cleary, owner of sunken vessel the Jacob Pike, is due in court May 7th. The Coast Guard has stepped in to handle remediation, calling it a pollution threat.
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The National Weather Service says the storm could drop up to 18 inches of snow in western and northern Maine.
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The Irish American Club calls the event the largest Irish and Irish-American celebration north of Boston.
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More than 100 samples at 18 sites were collected by Friends of Casco Bay and studied by Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in 2023.
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The National Weather Service said the coast sustained wind gusts of 50 mph with more than an inch of rain that also caused power outages for thousands.
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The National Weather Service said southeasterly winds and an inch and a half of rain could lead to coastal and river flooding.
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Supporters say the bill would address the stigma that some cannabis operators feel exists in current state law.
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Maine Students for Palestine is calling for an end to what it says is Israel's genocide of the Palestinian people.
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Ying Xia Liao, Xi Qiang Zhao, and Yao Bin Cheng, all of New York, were arrested and charged with cultivating and trafficking scheduled drugs. Somerset County Sheriff Dale Lancaster said thousands of plants were seized.
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A persistent shortage of skilled workers has prompted the formation of the Maine Defense Industry Alliance to fill more than 7,500 positions in the next five years. A $6.5 million dollar welding lab in Sanford is the first of many planned training sites for defense workers.