Maine

Governors and state lawmakers throughout the U.S. are floating proposals to send checks to help residents cope with soaring inflation at a time when state budgets are bursting with cash

A fisherman who reeled in a woolly mammoth tooth off the coast of Newburyport, Massachusetts, sold it at auction for more than $10,000 to help the people of Ukraine.

A group of Maine children managed to steer a school bus to safety after its driver experienced a medical event and later died.

The New England Fishmongers crew was dredging for scallops in December off the coast of Massachusetts when it made the unusual find.

The 2002 Topps Finest X-Fractor card was one of only 20 featuring the NFL quarterback who won his first Super Bowl on Feb. 3, 2002

There is outrage in Maine and beyond after now-fired announcers body-shamed players on a high school varsity girls basketball team.

“What goes around, comes around,” is a saying that really rings true in Westbrook, Maine.

The lobster industry has a long and rich history in the state of Maine, and the industry is working hard to protect its future. NBCLX contributor Greg Bledsoe brings his Family Geography Project to Portland to meet Kate-Lyn Knight, the owner of Rocky Bottom Fisheries, and learn how the industry is helping preserve lobster fishing for generations to come.

A fire department came to the rescue of a loon on a frozen pond in Maine over the weekend. The problem for the birds at this time of the year is that ice can leave them without enough of the open water they need to take off. Because of the ice, the loon couldn’t take flight from Tacoma Lake....

The holiday season is shining brightly during the pandemic as businesses pour money into extravagant light shows to spread cheer. From Maine to California, more lights shows have launched during the pandemic, and they’re more elaborate than ever, with sparkly spectacles that the comedic character Clark Griswold from “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” could only dream about. “They’re exploding because...

Teacher unions and school boards say a ruling for the parents would be a blow to public education.

A man accused of putting razor blades and screws in pizza dough at supermarkets in Maine and New Hampshire was sentenced Thursday to four years and nine months in federal prison.

University of Maine researchers are trying to produce potatoes that can better withstand warming temperatures as the climate changes

A lucky lobsterman in Maine just caught a 1-in-100 million lobster over the weekend. Fisherman Bill Coppersmith found a cotton candy-colored lobster in a haul from Casco Bay, News Center Maine reported. The lobster, named Haddie after Coppersmith’s granddaughter, is a 1-in-100 million catch, according to Portland-based seafood company Get Maine Lobster. Cotton candy is one of the rarest...

M.J. “Sunny” Eberhart acknowledged that despite having tens of thousands of miles under his belt, the trail was tough going at his age.

The Supreme Court has rejected an emergency appeal from health care workers in Maine to block a vaccine mandate that went into effect Friday. Three conservative justices noted their dissents. The state is not offering a religious exemption to hospital and nursing home workers who risk losing their jobs if they are not vaccinated. Only New York and Rhode Island…

In mid-September, Marcel Schliebs, a disinformation researcher at the University of Oxford who had been tracking messaging that Chinese diplomats and state media spread on Twitter for 18 months, spotted the emergence of a surprising coronavirus origin theory.

The U.S. Supreme Court declined Tuesday to hear an emergency appeal of a vaccine requirement imposed on Maine health care workers, the latest defeat for opponents of vaccine mandates. It was the first time the Supreme Court weighed in on a statewide vaccine mandate. It previously rejected challenges of vaccine requirements for New York City teachers and Indiana University...

Removing the flipping obscenities from license plates on Maine’s roads and highways isn’t going to happen overnight, even though a law banning such profanities in a state where such regulation has been unusually lax goes into effect Monday.

A new law in Maine will make producers of packaged goods pay to recycle them, and it could set the standard for the rest of the nation.