BREWER (AP) — Regulators say Maine fishermen’s sea urchin harvest was about in line with recent averages in 2017. Fishermen in Maine, California, Alaska and other states harvest sea urchins for their roe, which is used as food. The Maine Department of Marine Resources says fishermen in the state harvested a little less than 2 […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — The Maine Center for Disease Control says five more people have died from the flu in the past week, even as the number of new cases and hospitalizations slowed. The state said Wednesday that the number of new confirmed cases dropped 23 percent from the week before to 497, and the number […]

PORTLAND (AP) — The Maine Attorney General’s Office says a Portland police officer was justified in fatally shooting a man who was brandishing a pellet gun because it appeared to be a real rifle. Sgt. Nicholas Goodman shot 22-year-old Chance David Baker in the parking lot of a strip mall in February 2017. In a […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — The Governor’s Energy Office says the price of heating oil in Maine has dipped as cold weather eases. The statewide average cash price for No. 2 heating oil was $2.73 per gallon this week. The office says that is 22 cents less than it was at the end of January. The statewide […]

PORTLAND (AP) — The fire chief in Maine’s largest city is retiring at the end of the month. Portland City Manager Jon Jennings says Fire Chief David Jackson is set to retire. Jackson has been chief of the department since February 2016 and has been with the Portland Fire Department since July 1990. Jennings says […]

PORTLAND (AP) — Maine’s hotels and restaurants set a record for revenue last year, bringing in about $3.8 billion. The Portland Press Herald reports that tax records show lodging revenue broke $1 billion for the first time in 2017 after rising 7 percent from the year before. Restaurant revenue rose 4 percent to about $2.8 […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — A man who says his jewelry company employers called him a “Big Indian” has won $40,000 in a lawsuit he filed in Maine. Jason Brown says his employers’ comments about “Indians and firewater” made him feel reduced to his Native American heritage as a joke and a stereotype. Brown is a Penobscot […]