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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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.
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In the wake of the Charlie Kirk shooting Wednesday in Utah, members of Maine's Turning Point USA chapters and their allies are hosting events to honor their founder and grappling with what the loss means for their work. -
Timber harvesters and haulers are the backbone of Maine’s $8 billion forest products industry. But the most forested state in the country is losing loggers, fast. -
Three separate small plane crashes in Maine have claimed the lives of two people and injured two more in the past two weeks. -
Brunswick police say a vehicle crashed into a sports complex Thursday morning while patrons were inside playing tennis and exercising.
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The new 10 classroom facility near Cooks Corner is a partnership between the Bath Area Family YMCA, Bath Iron Works, and the U.S. Navy. It provides up to 120 priority spots for employees at the shipyard, who build warships for the Navy. -
The state Department of Marine Resources says it has dealt with three separate, large whale entanglements off the coast of Maine in the past month. Only one of the whales was successfully disentangled.
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A state fund that incentivizes Maine public schools to purchase food directly from local producers is expanding this year. State officials say a new law is helping each dollar a school spends on local food go further.
