WESTPORT ISLAND Today, the Kennebec Estuary Land Trust will launch its first ever online fundraising through WorthWild. KELT is hoping to raise the final funds to conserve the 144-acre Squam Creek Preserve on Westport Island. Visit www.kennebecestuary.org for a link to the Squam Creek Preserve campaign site. The Squam Creek Preserve is one of the […]

BRUNSWICK — Brunswick police released the name of the driver Friday who’s car collided with a dump truck on Old Portland Road Thursday afternoon. According to Brunswick Police Cmdr. Tom Garrepy, 34-year-old Jesse Baum of Lewiston was traveling north in a 2004 Nissan Sentra when he drifted into the oncoming lane and collided with a […]

BRUNSWICK — The Maine Educational Opportunity Center will be hosting free workshops entitled Essentials of College Planning for adults 19 and over at University College Bath/Brunswick), Orion Hall, 12 Sewall St., on Tuesday, Jan. 10 and 24 at 9 a.m.; and at Southern Midcoast Career Center, 275 Bath Road, on Tuesday, Jan. 10 and 24 […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — State park entrance fees and camp reservation fees went up in 2016, and the price of a season pass is going up in 2017. John Bott of the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry says the annual park pass fee hasn’t gone up since 2002. The new price will be $105, […]

AUGUSTA Republican Gov. Paul LePage proposed a two-year, $6.8 billion budget Friday that would reduce Maine’s income and corporate taxes while cutting about 500 state jobs and changing school funding. LePage said his goal is “mitigating the severe damage” done by citizen initiatives such as the minimum wage hike. Maine’s minimum wage is set to […]

PORTLAND Lobster lovers are used to adjusting to high prices, but this winter, they’re shelling out even more for the cherished crustaceans because of a lack of catch off of New England and Canada and heavy exports to China. Winter is typically a slow season for U.S. lobster fishermen and an active one off Atlantic […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — Maine Gov. Paul LePage says he’s going to attend the inauguration of Republican President elect Donald Trump. But it’s unclear whether he’s going to pack his dancing shoes. LePage, who appeared with Trump several times in Maine, said it’s doubtful he’ll be attending any of the gala balls after the president elect […]

OAKLAND (AP) — Authorities in Maine say a 52-year-old Massachusetts man has died after a snowmobile he was operating fell through thin ice on a lake. The state Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife says Richard Dumont of North Attleboro, Massachusetts, was riding a snowmobile owned by a friend and business partner on Messalonskee Lake […]

LIBERTY (AP) — Fire officials say a man was hurt after a manufacturing facility in Liberty caught fire, leading to several explosions because of hazardous materials that were inside. WLBZ-TV reports fire crews from nearly a dozen towns responded to Magnum Manufacturing Inc. on state Route 3 on Sunday night. Officials say a man believed […]

PORTLAND (AP) — Three New England states say they have tapped fishermen to collect samples of a species of shrimp that was the source of a lucrative fishery before it started disappearing. Maine, Massachusetts and New Hampshire have all picked fishermen to harvest Northern shrimp to help gather information about the stock. The fishermen will […]