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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Members of Maine's new legislative commission on preventing deed fraud say they hope to find ways to prevent the crime and help victims who fall prey to it.
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The Southern Maine Community College Student Senate voted Thursday to create a new chapter of Turning Point USA, the group founded by conservative political activist Charlie Kirk who was killed last month.
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Nearly 50 employees of the statewide, non-profit Maine Trust for Local News voted Monday to join the News Guild of Maine, bringing the total number of workers in the union to more than 200. -
A man from Greene pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Portland on Monday to illegally trafficking whale and bird parts he imported from Eastern Europe and sold online to buyers across the country.
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This past July, Sunshine Stewart, a woman who regularly went paddle boarding alone was killed on a pond in Union. Police have charged a teenager with her murder but few details have been released about the case. Incidents like this are rare in Maine. And while they can have a chilling effect, some are responding to the tragedy by doubling down on doing what they love. -
A historic sardine cannery in Prospect Harbor is set to process seafood once again, but this time it will be handling lobster and Jonah crab. -
The New England Fishery Management Council voted unanimously Thursday to postpone action on a proposed regulatory framework that could allow fishermen to use alternative kinds of gear to fish in federal coastal waters that are otherwise seasonally restricted to protect whales. -
State biologists and game wardens pulled off an unusual feat this week when they rescued a young bull moose that got stuck in an old well in Pembroke. -
Maine's largest public drinking water supplies are contaminated with hexavalent chromium, arsenic or nitrate, or all three chemicals combined. That's according to a new national study and interactive map published and by the Environmental Working Group. -
A Bangor-based wedding catering business is the subject of more than 20 consumer complaints from couples who say services fell short or were never provided.
