All the headlines from our Maine Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 18 2024 // A California court has dismissed a lawsuit from a group of fishermen against a conservation group that added New England lobster to its list of seafood to avoid.The lawsuit stemmed from a decision by Seafood Watch, which...
Jan 16 2024 // A record high tide in Maine washed away three historic fishing shacks that had stood since the 1800s and formed the backdrop of countless photographs.Michelle Erskine said she was visiting fisherman’s point at...
Dec 21 2023 // Just days before the Christmas holiday, people across the northeastern U.S. were mopping up Tuesday after a major storm dumped torrential rains and brought damaging winds from Pennsylvania to Maine, as some rivers in the...
Dec 20 2023 // A storm barreled up the East Coast on Monday, flooding roads and downing trees in the Northeast, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands, and forcing flight cancelations and school closures.More than 5 inches (13...
Dec 4 2023 // A federal jury in Illinois ordered $17.7 million in damages – an amount tripled to more than $53 million under federal law – to several food manufacturing companies who had sued major egg producers over a conspiracy to...
Nov 28 2023 // Maine, Louisiana and Kentucky were the most injury-prone states in 2018, while Hawaii, Maryland and Nevada have the lowest injury rates, according to data analyzed by a group of New York pain physicians.Maine saw 596...
Nov 15 2023 // Another billion-dollar disaster was confirmed in October, bringing the total to a record 25 such disasters in the first 10 months — the largest number of disasters for any year since NOAA began tracking the events. These...
Nov 14 2023 // The state of Maine has begun notifying people whose personal information was included in a data breach impacting as many as 1.3 million individuals, state officials announced Thursday.The notifications began after the...
Nov 13 2023 // A lawyer for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland told supreme court justices Thursday that Maine’s elimination of time limits on child sex abuse lawsuits is unconstitutional and imposes new liabilities, a...
Nov 7 2023 // FORT FAIRFIELD, Maine (AP) — A house fire in northern Maine that killed a father, mother and daughter is under investigation, police said Thursday.The fire took place in Fort Fairfield late last week. Police said the...
Oct 26 2023 // MEMIC Names Allen Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources OfficerMichelle Allen joined MEMIC‘s senior leadership team as senior vice president and chief human resources officer. MEMIC is headquartered in...
Oct 24 2023 // As lawmakers around the world weigh bans of cancer-linked “forever chemicals,” many manufacturers are pushing back, saying there often is no substitute for the compounds.Minnesota and Maine have passed...
Oct 19 2023 // The Coast Guard said Monday it has launched a formal investigation into a fatal accident aboard a historic schooner off the coast of Maine in which a mast fell and killed one person and injured three others.The main mast...
Oct 11 2023 // The main mast of a historic excursion vessel splintered and fell onto the vessel`s deck Monday, killing one person and injuring three others aboard the schooner Grace Bailey, officials said.A nearby Coast Guard vessel...
Oct 2 2023 // A fire destroyed several waterfront buildings in Maine, including an art gallery with several paintings by Jamie Wyeth and an illustration by his grandfather, N.C. Wyeth., the building`s owner said Friday.The original...
Sep 20 2023 // Like most lobstermen, the Maine House Republican leader scrambled to complete his work ahead of the remnants of Hurricane Lee. Rep. Billy Bob Faulkingham was rushing home from sea when a giant wave rose up, seemingly from...
Sep 18 2023 // BAR HARBOR, Maine (AP) — Atlantic storm Lee made landfall at near-hurricane strength Saturday, bringing destructive winds, rough surf and torrential rains to New England and Maritime Canada. But officials withdrew...
Sep 15 2023 // Coastal communities from Cape Cod to Canada are expecting Hurricane Lee to arrive tonight and Saturday, bringing coastal flooding, damaging winds and heavy rains.The National Hurricane Center placed Maine under a hurricane...
Sep 14 2023 // Soaked and stunned residents in neighborhoods across Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut have begun surveying and fixing damage from several days of flooding and a reported tornado, while they and others in the...
Sep 13 2023 // A lighthouse that was the site of a walkway collapse that injured 11 people will remain closed for an undetermined amount of time, according to the group that maintains the structure.The wooden walkway at Doubling Point...