The alewife, long recognized by the Passamaquoddy people as the "fish that feeds all," is coming back to its ancestral spawning grounds in record numbers after decades of contending with obstructed ...

Recent food insecurity reports place the county as having the least regular access to food in New England, for both children and adults, and earlier this year federally funded programs that provide ...

A dispute over whether seniors' caps for graduation at Shead High School could be decorated with articles of cultural or religious significance escalated quickly online and was diffused just as fast ...

In a marathon meeting held June 4, the Lubec Select Board coupled a series of three public hearings on ordinances and the comprehensive plan with a board meeting that was dominated by a discussion ...

Fatal overdoses in Washington County have dropped by approximately 40% over the past two years, signifying a turning point in the battle against synthetic opioids even as new concoctions are entering ...

After 15 years, the alewife harvest has returned to the Pennamaquan River in Pembroke. The resumption of the harvest has been hailed by town officials and biologists alike as a welcome return and a ...

Responding to the call to battle to protect the interests of the United States has long been a hallmark of Mainers, with among the highest number of veterans per capita in the country. Washington ...

Tractors stand at the ready along rolling wild blueberry barrens Downeast, where fields of naked stems offer no hint of the glorious techno color display to come. By late spring, roughly 47,000 acres ...

The tribal government at Sipayik is proceeding with plans to move its wastewater treatment plant because of the risks posed by rising sea levels, flooding and storm surges. Several potential sites ...

The U.S. Coast Guard's proposal to discontinue 154 navigational buoys in Maine, with 12 in the Quoddy area, including all of the buoys in the Lubec Channel, is being opposed by some local mariners, ...

The Lubec town meeting room was so full there were people clustered outside the windows trying to listen to the public hearing about possibly opening up the town to ATV traffic. And the meeting was so ...

The Sipayik Community Clam Garden -- a project that began in 2022 in Half Moon Cove and has since become the largest soft-shell clam garden in the world -- is nearing its first harvest, according to ...