Local News

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.

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...

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.

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

Lubec's Safe Harbor project, which has been in the works for more than five years and recently had been stalled for lack of sufficient funding, has now taken a significant step forward with an additional $10 million expected to be provided by the federal government, bringing the total project...

On July 25, 1918, residents of the Town of Dennysville gathered to watch a 160-foot, four-masted schooner enter the Dennys River from Pushee Brothers' shipyard at Clark's Point. The town was then a bustling place, and town historian Ron Windhorst relates a diary entry from Fred Gardner...