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Fishery regulators Thursday increased the amount of Gulf of Maine shrimp that can be caught this season, but Maine fishermen and processors said the higher limit won't make much difference.
Maine scallop fishermen expect to get record prices for their catch this season with strong global demand and a diminished supply from Japan and other competing, scallop-producing nations.
Volunteers have laid tens of thousands of holiday wreaths at tombstones at Arlington National Cemetery.
Officially, the national weight limit for freight trucks on interstate highways is 40 tons. In reality, trucks are getting heavier in more states — legally — and advocates for highway safety and the trucking industry are sharply at odds about it.
As voters weigh whether to embrace developers' plans to build up to three new casinos in Maine, the call is growing louder for the state to regulate the expansion of gambling.
A paraplegic skipper's calm advice and quick distress call is being credited with helping save the lives of all but one of his friends as his pleasure fishing boat took on water in rough seas off Maine.
A jury on Monday ruled against a Maine woman who said a prestigious research institute removed her late husband's brain without her consent.
Three days after 9/11, Elaine Greene held an American flag above her on a busy street corner in this small Maine town. Since then, she and two other women have waved the flag on the same corner for an hour every Tuesday in honor of America's service personnel and to show that the American spirit is alive and kicking.
The word "squaw" has finally disappeared from the names of all public places in Maine 11 years after state law aimed to wipe the word deemed offensive by Native Americans off maps. But the owner of a private ski resort with the word in its name refuses to go along, saying it's a tribute to American Indians.
Old-fashioned apples are back in fashion.
A school district in the deep woods of Maine that sought out Chinese students to help boost its enrollment and its finances fell far short of its ambitious goal of bringing in 60 students.
One of New England's last open-access commercial fisheries could be closed to new participants as regulators look at new ways to manage the region's shrimp fishery, a restriction that some fishermen fear will harm their ability to make ends meet in the winter.
When Samantha Lowe's 12-year-old Labrador retriever needed anti-inflammatories to ease her arthritis, she found herself facing the same question humans face when it comes to prescriptions: Name-brand drug, or generic?
Macaroni and cheese and pot pies may conjure up images of grandma's kitchen. But those traditional dishes these days are being combined with the king of seafood and transformed into value-added lobster dishes that some are calling gourmet comfort food.
The day after leaving office following an eight-year stint as Maine's governor, Angus King hit the road.
A single mother from Maine whose mysterious death remains under investigation in New Hampshire was remembered by friends and family on Monday as an energetic, strong-willed woman with a wide network of friends.
A century ago, seals were rare along New England's coast — the victims of fishermen and others who viewed them as fish-gobbling pests that threatened their livelihoods.
A Maine cabinet member who was forced out after offending rural residents, African-Americans and Native Americans all in one day said Friday that some of the comments attributed to him were misconstrued and others he didn't even say.
Lobsters aren't just for eating anymore.
Kindergarten classes are supplementing crayons, finger paints and flashcards with iPads, a development that excites supporters but that detractors worry is wasted on pupils too young to appreciate the expense.
Northern Maine is 7,000 miles and a world away from China, but that's not stopping a school superintendent from recruiting Chinese students to attend public high school in this remote mill town.
With less than three months on the job, Gov. Paul LePage has already managed to rankle more constituencies with his bluntness than any Maine governor in recent memory.
Former Maine women's basketball coach Cindy Blodgett says she was "fired without cause."
Maine Gov. Paul LePage is nixing a mural depicting the state's labor history, including images of worker strikes and "Rosie the Riveter," from the Labor Department's lobby, prompting an outcry from labor advocates.
Harp seals from Canada are showing up in U.S. waters in greater numbers and farther south than usual, and biologists want to know why.
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