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Jump in lobster price drives $74M increase in Maine fisheries value
The dockside value of Maine’s statewide annual fishery landings jumped by $74 million in 2024, buoyed by a hike in the price of lobster. Overall, fishermen and marine harvesters in Maine netted nearly...
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Transgender Maine school board member steps down over Trump threats
A transgender woman from Thomaston has stepped down from her position on the RSU 13 school board over concerns about President Donald Trump’s threats to cut education funding to Maine if the state...
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A 50-year-old event helps Maine’s fishing industry hash out its differences
An annual weekend event that brings together fishermen with scientists, government officials and industry observers is celebrating its 50th anniversary in Rockport. The Maine Fishermen’s Forum, which...
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A costumed bear is the midcoast’s quirkiest landmark
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Study finds more than 100 great white sharks have recently visited Maine
More than 100 great white sharks have been detected off Maine’s coast over the last 13 years, with most of them found in recent years and in relatively shallow waters, according to new research that...
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Church makes court arguments for blocking UMaine’s sale of Belfast center
During a daylong court hearing in Bangor, attorneys for Calvary Chapel Belfast again made their arguments for blocking the University of Maine System’s sale of the Hutchinson Center to a local social...
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Maine railroad crossing could be named after civil rights leader who died there
Maine lawmakers heard testimony Tuesday on a bill that would name a railroad crossing on Route 1 in Wiscasset after James Weldon Johnson, a lawyer, diplomat and poet who died in a car crash at the...
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Midcoast motels turned into ‘last resort’ housing have pattern of code...
For decades, the Admiral’s Ocean Inn in Belfast was the type of iconic roadside motel that drew travelers seeking a no-frills place to stay during visits to the Maine coast. In the 1960s, when it was...
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This Rockland man has a plan to build apartments that cost less than $1,000...
Richard Rockwell wants to do something other Maine developers couldn’t hope to: offer new apartments in Rockland for less than $1,000 a month with utilities included. It would be well-received by...
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Belfast woman allegedly killed by husband lived with ‘purpose and adventure’
The Belfast woman who was allegedly killed by her husband in Readfield last month had only recently gotten married and moved to Maine with him, according to one of her relatives. Police have accused...
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Belfast revises tennis court rules after flap over new scheduling policy
Belfast councilors have agreed to exempt a group of longtime users of the city’s public tennis courts from new scheduling rules, after the players complained that the changes disrupted their...
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Bowdoin declines to divest from Israel-supporting firms after protest
After a demonstration in early February in which Bowdoin College students camped out in a school building to demand the school pull its investments from arms companies supporting Israel in its war...
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How a midcoast library has become a hub for local art
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Deputy was justified in fatal shooting of Belfast man who had burning gas can
Attorney General Aaron Frey has determined that a Waldo County Sheriff’s Office sergeant was justified in fatally shooting Daniel Ryan, 65, in his Belfast apartment in June, after Ryan had made...
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Reward offered for information on deer illegally shot in Swanville
A private organization working with the Maine Warden Service is offering a $3,000 reward for information on the illegal shooting and wounding of a deer in Swanville. The injured deer ultimately had to...
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ICE arrests Chinese man charged with midcoast sex trafficking
Immigration officials have started removal proceedings for a Chinese citizen who was recently charged with sex trafficking in the midcoast. Tian Tao, 54, was arrested on the sex trafficking charges on...
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A family oyster farm is caught in a bitter fight over Maine’s waters
Business grew quickly after Dan Devereaux and Doug Niven started their oyster farm in Brunswick a decade ago. They sold 10,000 oysters in their first season. Three years later, they were growing...
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Honduran man arrested after evading Maine police for more than 8 hours
A man from Honduras allegedly in the U.S. illegally was arrested in Wiscasset on Friday. Renan Modesto Noralez Dolmo, 30, was charged with providing a false name and date of birth, refusing to submit...
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Rockland takes a pioneering step to address its housing crisis
HousingThis section of the BDN aims to help readers understand Maine’s housing crisis, the volatile real estate market and the public policy behind them. Read more Housing coverage here. The midcoast...
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Stockton Springs urged to hold earlier vote on solar project pause
Stockton Springs residents are pushing the town to move more quickly to pause commercial solar projects in the town, as one is currently proposed on private property off Blueberry Lane. The town is...
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