Nora Saks
News ReporterNora Saks is a Maine Public Radio news reporter. Before joining Maine Public, Nora worked as a reporter, host and podcast producer at Montana Public Radio, WBUR-Boston, and KFSK in Petersburg, Alaska. She has also taught audio storytelling at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies (of which she is a proud alum), written and edited stories for Down East magazine, and collaborated on oral history projects.
While at Montana Public Radio, Nora created Richest Hill, a narrative non-fiction podcast about one of America's most legendary Superfund sites, which The New Yorker named one of the best podcasts of 2019. Richest Hill was also the winning entry for the 2019 Daniel Schorr Journalism Prize.
Nora joined Maine Public in 2025 after a decade in audio and print journalism and is based in the City of Ships.
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A five and a half square mile parcel of privately owned, ecologically diverse land in western Maine's High Peaks region on the South Branch of the Dead River, at the headwaters of the Kennebec River watershed, has been permanently protected through a conservation easement. -
A federal appeals court has upheld the Maine Department of Marine Resource's right to continue monitoring the movements of federally permitted lobster boats using electronic vessel tracking devices. -
Maine's black bear monitoring project — one of nation's longest-running bear studies — turns 50 this year. Scientists say the data collected have been an essential tool in helping to manage the state's healthy bear population. -
In the Northeast Atlantic, the majority of entanglements were reported in Massachusetts Bay and Cape Cod Bay. Three occurred off the coast of Maine. -
Wood banks — which provide firewood to people in need at no charge — have officially existed in Maine for almost two decades. They're increasing in number, due in part to the rising cost of living, and cuts to government support programs. -
Maine Adaptive Sports and Recreation, the Western Maine-based non-profit focused on making the outdoors more accessible to people with disabilities, is moving into a new homebase, at Hurricane Island Outward Bound School's basecamp in Newry. -
The state Department of Marine Resources says that for the first time, recent research reveals that multiple white sharks have been found in the same place, at the same time, off Scarborough Beach. -
For the first time, the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission has issued an assessment that finds that overfishing is occurring in the lobster stock in Northern New England waters, and that the stock has declined 34% since 2018. Regulators are recommending a re-evaluation of management strategies for the lucrative resource. -
District Attorney Natasha Irving says she had what she calls a "respectful dialogue" on Thursday with members of Lincoln County's budget advisory committee who earlier this month threatened to defund her department. -
Natasha Irving, the district attorney for Lincoln, Sagadahoc, Waldo and Knox Counties is coming under fire from members of the Lincoln County budget advisory committee who are unhappy with her approach to crime.
