Meet farmers, spinners, weavers, sheep at Maine Fibershed Festival Day

Throughout October, the Rockport Public Library has been hosting a celebration of Maine’s fiber community with its Maine Fibershed Festival exhibit and related pop-up events. The marquee event of the festival will occur on Saturday, Oct. 25, with...

Fifty Years After It Sank, Science Might Finally Solve the Mystery of the Edmund Fitzgerald

It was a calm and clear afternoon when the Edmund Fitzgerald left port in Superior, Wisconsin, on November 9, 1975. The enormous ship carried more than 26,000 tons of iron ore in the form of taconite pellets for a journey to the steel mills of...

Maine investigating how 911 calls were misrouted for nearly 2 years

Maine utility regulators are weighing whether to penalize a telephone carrier that routed 911 calls to an administrative line for nearly two years, potentially limiting callers’ ability to reach dispatchers during an emergency. The Public...

NTSB: Faulty engineering led to implosion of Titan submersible

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- Faulty engineering led to the implosion of an experimental submersible that killed five people on the way to the wreck of the Titanic, the National Transportation Safety Board concluded in a report Wednesday. The NTSB made...

Maine colleges should reject Trump administration pressure tactics

The BDN Opinion section operates independently and does not set news policies or contribute to reporting or editing articles elsewhere in the newspaper or on bangordailynews.com Rep. Laurie Osher, D-Orono, is serving her third term in the Maine...

Maine Governor Janet Mills Provides Temporary OBBBA Conformity Directions

Maine currently conforms to the Internal Revenue Code in effect as of December 31, 2024. As a result, none of the numerous federal tax changes enacted in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) have been incorporated in Maine tax law. However, a...

US: 3 Activists Strip in Front of School Board To Show Locker Room Discomfort During Meeting To Protest Trans Athlete Policy in Maine, Video Surfaces

During a school board meeting in Maine’s capital, Augusta, three activists stripped down to their underwear to protest the district’s policy allowing trans athletes to compete in women’s sports. The demonstration, led by local activist Nick...

Central Maine family trades 200-acre farm for Aroostook convenience store

When they came to Aroostook County to look at farms for sale about five years ago, Sarah Leavitt and Bill Witham had a plan. The owners of Freedom Farm in the central Maine town of Athens, a goat dairy farm that also raised poultry and pigs, were...

Maine’s First AI Data Center Will Go Up in Aroostook County

(TNS) — Maine's first artificial intelligence data center will be housed at the former Loring Air Force Base in Limestone . Loring LiquidCool Data Center, owned by the Minnesota-based company LiquidCool Solutions, has signed a "long-term" lease...

Improving coastal ocean acidification monitoring in Maine

Improving coastal ocean acidification monitoring in Maine Published 16 October 2025 Web sites and blogs Leave a Comment Tags: North Atlantic Maine Ocean Climate Collaborative’s “Sensor Squad” has issued a two-part report on monitoring...

A collaborative assessment of coastal ocean acidification monitoring in Maine & standard operating procedures and best practices for the collection of continuous pH data in coastal marine environments

A collaborative assessment of coastal ocean acidification monitoring in Maine & standard operating procedures and best practices for the collection of continuous pH data in coastal marine environments Published 16 October 2025 Newsletters and...

Startup Maine plans first full-time hire to power growth

With $325,000 in fresh funding from the Maine Technology Institute, Startup Maine is gearing up to hire its first full-time staff member and scale up its flagship annual conference and other initiatives. “It will be the charge of the executive...

Faulty engineering led to doom of Titan submersible headed to Titanic, NTSB finds

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Faulty engineering led to the implosion of an experimental submersible that killed five people on the way to the wreck of the Titanic, the National Transportation Safety Board concluded in a report Wednesday. The NTSB made...

From Hawaii to Maine, States Look to Regulate as LEO Reliability Improves

WASHINGTON, Oct. 16, 2025 – Officials and industry analysts said that state and tribal agencies are still determining how to regulate and monitor LEO satellites, as technical data show improving reliability and latency. The discussion hosted by...

St. George property donated to Maine Coast Fishermen’s Association

SAINT GEORGE — The Maine Coast Fishermen’s Association (MCFA) has received a generous donation of waterfront property in St. George from local resident Barbara Wagner, honoring the memory of her late husband, John Wagner, and his commitment to...

Baby puffin survival rates on N.B. colony seeing declines: study

Breadcrumb Trail Links Daily Gleaner Fredericton & West Saint John & South A head researcher at the island says that for now, puffin populations are stable because of the species' long lifespan A pair of puffins on Machias Seal Island. Researcher...

5:04 p.m. early and often early and often Graham Platner’s Honeymoon Is Over By Benjamin Hart and Nia Prater The Maine Senate candidate is being dogged by old internet comments. His political director has handed in her resignation.

When Democrat Graham Platner entered the race to unseat incumbent Republican senator Susan Collins in August, he immediately clicked with Maine voters. An oyster farmer and ex-Marine who looks the part of a rugged Down-Easter, Platner’s brand of...

David Lancaster named VP of business development and sales at Canastra Fishing; Katie Pullen named head of finance for Maine RAS salmon farmer

To keep up to date with the latest personnel changes across the seafood industry, SeafoodSource is compiling a regular round-up of hiring announcements and other personnel-related shifts worldwide. If you have an announcement, please send it to...

Maine Mariners aim to build 58,000 square-foot practice rink at the Downs in Scarborough

The Maine Mariners are seeking to build a 5,800 square-foot, state-of-the-art practice arena in Scarborough the team hopes to start using during the 2027 hockey season. The 800-seat complex would be built on 6.2 acres inside the Innovation...

Mr. Drew and His Animals Too Sets Grand Opening in Poland, Maine

The journey of Mr. Drew and His Animals Too has certainly had plenty of twists and turns. For the better part of the last two years, Mr. Drew and His Animals Too wowed visitors to his rescue and education center inside the Lewiston Mall. The draw...