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After being dormant in its tidal power operations in the Cobscook Bay area for a decade, Ocean Renewable Power Company (ORPC) is gearing up to again begin testing commercially viable turbine generator units off Eastport this year.

About two dozen people showed up at the Edmunds Consolidated School gym on March 16 for a public meeting to come up with ideas for saving the Dennysville Volunteer Ambulance Service, which has been in existence since the mid-1960s.

During their March 21 annual town meeting, Columbia Falls residents overwhelmingly voted to approve the much-discussed moratorium on large-scale commercial development that will in effect place a pause on the $1 billion Flagpole of Freedom Park project proposed by the Worcester family.

Downeast municipalities have seen a rise in the number of potential large-scale projects in aquaculture, mining, land development and commercial development.

When Jennifer Sutherland decided to return to Maine from North Carolina as the laboratory manager at Down East Community Hospital (DECH) in Machias, she did not anticipate the difficulty of finding housing, either to rent or to buy.

Homelessness will not go away with the arrival of warm weather, St. Stephen's Mayor Allan MacEachern says. An "out-of-the-cold" warming centre opened on December 13 to prevent people without homes from freezing to death this winter...