Maine

Maine will be spared the worst of Hurricane Fiona as it slams into Nova Scotia and the Canadian Maritimes this weekend. Still, some communities are expecting wind gusts of 55 to 60 miles per hour and big waves. One NWS Caribou projected wind gust map showed the city of Eastport, Maine getting a 61 mile-per-hour gust. High wind warnings and…

A bargain hunter who went to an estate sale in Maine looking for a KitchenAid mixer, a bookshelf or vintage clothing walked away with a 700-year-old treasure.

In some ways, it might be a college student’s dream: the ability to get hot food on-campus without having to leave your dorm room on a cold winter night. Over the past few weeks, University of Southern Maine students in Portland and Gorham have been getting used to that convenience thanks to 15 delivery robots. They’re called Kiwibots and...

More than two years after a massive explosion at a paper mill in Jay, Maine, hundreds of workers will soon be out of a job. In April 2020, the “digester” of the Androscoggin Mill in the town of fewer than 5,000 people, a roughly 45-minute drive north of Lewiston, exploded, sending debris over a widespread area. Fortunately, there were no…

A woman from Georgia died after falling 30 feet off the edge of a cliff walk Monday in Scarborough, Maine, according to NBC affiliate News Center Maine. The woman was identified by officials as Romona Gowens, 55, of Calhoun, Georgia, according to the Maine news outlet. Emergency crews found the woman critically injured following the fall off the Prouts Neck…

A man dressed only in underwear tried to break into a Maine home on Sunday, then led police on a chase that ended when his SUV crashed into a lake, authorities said.

A dog has been found several days after he went missing following a highway crash in Ogunquit, Maine.

A toddler is dead after an apparent family tragedy in Naples, Maine. Maine State Police say a 2-year-old boy was in the driveway of his family’s Lambs Mills Road home Saturday afternoon when he was fatally struck by a pickup truck that was pulling a camper trailer. According to state police, the boy’s dad was driving the truck, and...

Police and school officials in Lewiston, Maine say they are actively investigating how a handgun ended up in an elementary school classroom on Thursday. According to Lewiston Public Schools superintendent Jake Langlais, the gun had rounds in it but they were not in a part of the weapon from which they could easily be fired or allow the weapon to…

Members of a charter group fishing off Monhegan, Maine, in late August were startled when a seven-foot mako shark landed in their boat.

A wild meeting with a high-flying shark caught on camera in Maine is going viral.

UPDATE: Whiskey was found on Saturday, Sept. 17, and will be reunited with his owner. A man was seriously hurt and a dog killed in a crash on Interstate 95 northbound in Ogunquit, Maine, on Wednesday. Another dog remains missing. The crash happened around 9:30 a.m. near mile marker 14. Maine State Police said it appears the crash was caused…

A week after Seafood Watch, a California group based at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, told consumers and businesses to “avoid” New England lobster because of what it says are threats to endangered right whales from fishing gear, people in Maine are still livid at what they see as an unfair designation. As of Tuesday afternoon, a change.org petition submitted...

A man and a woman have been hospitalized after being shot multiple times early Monday morning in the popular tourist district

Two people were seriously hurt early Monday morning in a shooting in the Old Port area of Portland, Maine, according to police. Two Portland officers were patrolling when they heard gunshots ring out around 1 a.m. The officers found a man on Wharf Street, near Union Street, who had been shot multiple times, a news release from the police department…

Promoters envision a relaxed ride with a meal and sleep before arriving bright-eyed at the destination. The 14-hour ride would travel through Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont and Quebec.

A 2-year-old girl and her parents are safe, police in Maine say, after months spent looking for them in an effort that included the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Lydia Hansen and her parents, Jill Sidebotham and Nicholas Hansen, were last heard from near Springvale June 28, when Sidebotham last contacted her family, saying she would be going…

Maine’s congressional delegation and Gov. Janet Mills have called on an influential conservation group to immediately reverse their “red list” designation of lobster, or provide evidence to back their “irresponsible” claims that the seafood poses too much of a risk to rare whales and should be avoided. Seafood Watch, which rates the sustainability of different seafoods, said this week...

Some retailers are taking lobster off the menu after an assessment from an influential conservation group that the seafood poses too much of a risk to rare whales and should be avoided. Seafood Watch, which rates the sustainability of different seafoods, said this week it has added the American and Canadian lobster fisheries to its “red list” of species to…

The York County Sheriff’s office announced that a deputy has been placed on administrative leave after fatally shooting a suspect in North Waterboro, Maine. The incident, which occurred around 6:48 p.m. Wednesday on Rosemont Avenue in North Waterboro, resulted in the death of 30-year-old Tyler Woodburn, a resident of Newmarket, New Hampshire, police said. Officers initially responded to the...