Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens will pay more than $18,600 to build a fish passage on the Sheepscot River to settle environmental violations it committed during a major expansion two years ago. The Boothbay-based nonprofit was cited by the Maine Department of Environmental Protection in 2017 for building structures without approval and filling wetlands, a breach of the […]

A proposal to let dozens of new lobstermen into Maine’s signature fishery is going to be put off until at least 2020.  More than 200 people are waiting for a state license to harvest lobster, and the annual haul has grown in volume and value this decade. Earlier this year, state Rep. Joyce McCreight, a […]

Maine State Police say they will hold a memorial service Tuesday in Portland for a state trooper who was struck and killed by one of two wheels that detached from a tractor-trailer on Interstate 95 in Hampden on Wednesday. The funeral announcement for Detective Benjamin Campbell comes as police continue to investigate how the wheels, […]

BATH — Bath is working to squeeze even more parking spots into the limited space in and around the city’s downtown. Bath City Council gave its initial approval to plans to add 24 new parking spots to the streets surrounding the Patten Free Library and Library Park on Wednesday. The proposal, presented to the council […]

Federal regulators are accusing a Freeport man and his company of investment fraud, saying he solicited $3 million from nearly 150 investors by falsely promising to use their money to organize Christian music concerts and festivals.  The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said in a complaint filed Thursday in U.S. District Court that concert promoter […]

AUGUSTA — The Mills administration plans to begin placing the overdose reversal drug Narcan in public buildings as part of the state’s efforts to address the opioid crisis. Gordon Smith, Maine’s newly appointed director of opioid response, discussed the plans Wednesday during the first meeting of Gov. Janet Mills’ Prevention and Recovery Cabinet, which is […]

A Maine state trooper was killed on Interstate 95 in Hampden on Wednesday morning when he was struck by one of two wheels that detached from a passing logging truck while he was assisting a stopped motorist.  Detective Benjamin Campbell, 31, of Millinocket was killed just south of the Coldbrook Road overpass in the southbound lanes of […]

The chance to weigh in on candidates for school superintendent doesn’t come around often.  But some people living in the Regional School Unit 2 district — which includes Dresden, Farmingdale, Hallowell, Monmouth and Richmond — will have just that chance. The district’s board of directors is looking for community members to be a part of […]