PORTLAND Video cameras are seemingly everywhere. Soon there’ll even be one hanging from around the neck of a Maine black bear as it interacts with its cubs, forages for berries or perhaps makes its way into a backyard bird feeder. In a study that begins this spring, Unity College students will trap up to five […]

AUGUSTA Mainers will soon be able to keep a closer eye on their lawmakers. Public broadcasting’s Maine Capitol Connection channel is expected to go on air Monday and feature dayand night, gavel-to-gavel House and Senate coverage, plus hearings, news conferences, interviews and events of the day under the Augusta dome. A state version of C-SPAN, […]

JAY (AP) — Police fired tear gas into a trailer in Jay to capture a man who had been on the run all weekend. A Maine State Police tactical team entered the home at the Pine Haven Trailer Park at about 4 p.m. Sunday and found Michael Gatcomb hiding under the bathroom sink. Police feared […]

SCARBOROUGH (AP) — The Scarborough Town Council is scheduled to meet this week to vote on an oyster nursery off the Pine Point Beach pier. Abigail Carroll started buying oysters as juveniles to test her untrained hand at raising them at a farm in the Scarborough River. Last year, she had an aboveground nursery in […]

YORK (AP) — Lobstermen are worried last summer’s low prices could return. Lobstermen have been telling Maine Marine Resources Commissioner Patrick Keliher at recent meetings that something needs to be done should prices dive again. They’re not sure what the answer is, but they oppose limiting lobstering to three days a week. Keliher said Maine […]

ROCKLAND (AP) — Farnsworth Art Museum is kicking off its 2013 exhibition season with a show featuring paintings, photographs and sculptures by well-known American artists including Marsden Hartley, Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, Eliot Porter, Robert Indiana and N.C., Andrew and Jamie Wyeth. Beginning Feb. 17, the Rockland museum will present an exhibit called “American Treasures: […]