Federal shutdown creates uncertainty for Maine cancer patient struggling to stay warm

General manager departs WERU after 27 years of leading Blue Hill radio station

Matt Murphy has stepped down as WERU general manager, and Kristin Spaulding of Orland has taken over the role.

Obesity drugs show early promise against the hormonal disorder PMOS, giving a suffering family hope

Charlotte Touzalin was still a young teenager when she began struggling with weight gain, abnormal periods and unwanted facial hair — the same puzzling symptoms that plagued her mom for decades and that no doctor could piece together. “I’d go home and I’d cry,” said Touzalin, an 18-year-old college student from Colorado. “I didn’t understand why all this weight was coming back or why my friends didn’t have to shave their faces and I had to.” Touzalin and her mom, Anne Schultz, were finally diagnosed with polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome, a hormonal condition affecting 1 in 8 women worldwide. But unlike […]

Democratic primary turnout has soared in some states. Can it carry over to November?

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic voters are showing up for this year’s primaries in numbers not seen in decades, a pattern emerging across several states that has the party optimistic about its prospects in November when control of Congress will be at stake. In Tuesday’s primary, Wisconsin Democrats cast nearly 800,000 ballots, their highest total for […]

Greenfield ATV crash causes serious injuries and ignites wildland fire

The ATV came to rest against a tree and caught fire, igniting a roughly quarter-acre wildland fire.

Acadia tourists keep building rock cairns faster than stewards can dismantle them

Critics of the rock stacks say they run counter to the ‘leave no trace’ principle, and they can cause erosion and confuse hikers who mistake them for trail markers.