Watch out for this freshman already putting up big numbers in Maine high school basketball

Maine woman harvests sea salt on remote offshore island

Twenty-three miles from the closest grocery store through the saltiest of seas, there was no running out to pick some up.

Bangor Public Library is displaying one of the earliest Declaration of Independence copies

The showing is part of the first statewide tour for the Maine Historical Society’s copy of the document.

A judge rejects Pamela Smart’s latest bid for a new trial in 1990 accomplice to murder case

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire judge on Thursday dismissed the latest petition for a new trial from Pamela Smart, who is serving life in prison for orchestrating the murder of her husband by her teenage student more than three decades ago. Smart, 59, was a 22-year-old high school media coordinator when she began […]

Maine fights ruling that it illegally fired immigrant whose work permit briefly lapsed

David Abafi, an epidemiologist, grew up in Nigeria and immigrated to the U.S. in 2021.

Trump administration allows inadvertent killing of endangered species

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Inadvertently killing endangered animals while logging a forest or building a dam would no longer be considered illegal under a new interpretation of the Endangered Species Act by federal officials, marking a sea change by President Donald Trump’s administration in how the landmark environmental law is enforced. A directive sent to […]