BOISE, Idaho (AP) — To spawn in Little Bear Creek’s west fork, wild steelhead must run a hazardous, 500- mile gauntlet up the Columbia, Snake and Clearwater rivers from the Pacific Ocean that includes sea lions and anglers’ lures. But when they arrive each spring in Troy, a logging town where north-central Idaho’s rolling Palouse […]

BRUNSWICK The prolonged heat threatens to put Amtrak’s Downeaster in the slow lane. The Northern New England Passenger Rail Authority is warning of delays along the Downeaster route because of speed restrictions caused by the heat. The heat causes the steel rail to expand, and speeds must be lowered for safety. For the Downeaster, there […]

BATH A city water main ruptured on Washington Avenue this afternoon, shutting down the road at 700 Washington St., near the Bath Iron Works shipyard. City officials have stopped the water and are repairing the main. Traffic is being detoured around the site,

WOOLWICH — Two men were taken to hospitals after the car they were passengers in lost control and rolled three times on Route 1 in Woolwich this morning in front of the Taste of Maine. The crash was reported to the Sagadahoc County Sheriff’s Department today at 7:09 a.m. Chief Deputy Brett Strout said a […]