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Courtesy of ManometThe project, led by conservation science group Manomet, is testing the viability growing and seeding quahogs. -
Early snowfall was washed away by a December rainstorm leaving icy, hazardous conditions.
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Officers shot and killed a man in the town of Hartford after he ran at them with a knife.
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This is an excerpt from a lengthy conversation with Golden, a Democrat, about what motivated his decision not to seek a fifth term representing Maine's 2nd District. The 43-year-old said he has no immediate plans to seek elected office after more than a decade in Congress and the Maine Legislature. But he also isn't ruling it out. -
Maine Public chief politics correspondent Steve Mistler and fellow politics correspondent Kevin Miller recently sat down with Rep. Jared Golden for a lengthy conversation about hyper-partisanship and his decision not to run again. -
For the first time, Mainers will pay the state's 5.5% sales tax for streaming subscriptions like Netflix, Spotify -
About 3,653 cases of Lyme disease were reported in 2025, according to preliminary data from the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Cases of other tick-borne diseases, including Babesiosis and Anaplasmosis, also increased and set new highs. -
The budget increase is almost entirely driven by a $3.5 million shortfall at the Penobscot County Jail that needs to be covered, commissioners said. -
Erika Mclaughlin had been living in another state for the past six months and learned of her one-year-old daughter's death in a phone call from her mother.
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Party candidates running for federal, state and county offices will have to obtain a set number of signatures to qualify for the June primary elections. The thresholds vary by office and it will be easier to make the March 16 deadline for those who have built organizational and volunteer networks. -
Now that some of the initial shock of the Custom House Wharf fire in Portland is wearing off, local business owners are figuring out what comes next. -
An aviation maintenance firm and a planned potato chip plant are bringing dozens of jobs back to the base, which has seen several failed revitalization attempts since it closed in 1994.
