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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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.
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The state official charged with animal cruelty in the death of Maine's first public safety comfort dog, Baxter, resigned from his post on Oct. 3, according to the Department of Public Safety. -
The estimated population of critically endangered North Atlantic right whales grew by about two percent last year to 384, an increase of about eight individuals. That’s according to new data from the New England Aquarium and North Atlantic Right Whale Consortium. -
Jason Lilley, a maple industry educator with the UMaine Cooperative Extension, says the fact that maple trees are dropping their leaves a week early indicates they are stressed, and stress is bad for sugar production. -
Liberty Graphics teams up with Monterey Bay Aquarium to save sea otters, with help from Taylor SwiftA Liberty, Maine-based T-shirt company known for its nature-themed designs is teaming up with the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California to raise money for the protection of sea otters, with a major boost from pop star Taylor Swift. -
This Thursday, October 16, will mark the first-ever Downeast Fishing Family Forum in Ellsworth, which organizers say will offer the community a place to "discuss the issues that matter most."
