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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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." -
As Maine's first and only professional men's soccer club wraps up its inaugural season, the founder of Portland's Hearts of Pine says he's now exploring the addition of a women's pre-professional soccer team to the franchise. -
Most lobstermen say they're concerned more about economics and whale regulations than the lobster fishery itself. -
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.
