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Lobster catch dips to lowest level since 2009 as fishers grapple with climate change, whale rules

Members of the lobster industry, based mostly in Maine, have said they face existential threats from proposed rules intended to protect the North Atlantic right whale and climate change that is influencing where lobsters can be trapped.

An outlet mall in Kittery, Maine, to be demolished for hotel, officials say

The property is one of the shopping plazas that has made the southern Maine town a shopping destination for decades.

In Lewiston, chief enforcer of gun laws says Americans may become numb to violence with each mass shooting

ATF director Steven Dettelbach met for nearly two hours at Central Maine Community College with relatives of those killed and survivors of the Oct. 25 Lewiston shooting.

On video, Lewiston shooter told N.Y. authorities he was ‘capable’ of violence

The Army reservist told New York state troopers that it was “getting old” hearing people talk about him behind his back, according to body-camera video footage of a July 2023 conversation with him.

Lewiston shooter left note saying ‘he’s had enough and is trained to hurt people,’ State Police say

Three days before the gunman committed the worst mass shooting in Maine’s history, he typed out an ominous note on his cellphone.

Panel investigating Maine’s deadliest shooting to hear from state police

A panel investigating the deadliest shooting in Maine history is going to hear from state police, the lead law enforcement agency responding to the attack.

Even voters in independent-minded Maine are taking sides in a polarized nation

Maine’s vaunted independent voters are becoming scarcer as Super Tuesday approaches.

Shooting incident reported in Saco, Maine; shelter-in-place order lifted for downtown

As of Friday night, police in Saco, Maine, were still searching for four individuals connected to a shooting that resulted in a lockdown of the downtown and several schools in the surrounding area, police said in a statement around 7:30 p.m.