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The fate of a proposal to expand a stone quarry at Oak Bay lies with provincial Environment and Local Government Minister Jeff Carr.

A mission to Saipan to pick up wounded from the battle of Iwo Jima, piloting home a plane filled to the brim with American prisoners of war at the end of WWII and a passion to preserve and record the past -- these are just a few snapshots in the life of Frank Foster Jr.

The New Brunswick Power Corp. plans to decommission and remove the oldest hydroelectric dam in Canada. NB Power announced late in June that it will seek approval to remove the Milltown Generating Station, which has blocked the St. Croix River at Salmon Falls between St.

“I'm going to leave you guys with a homework assignment,” said Maine Department of Marine Resources (DMR) Commissioner Patrick Keliher, addressing the Zone A Lobster Zone Council and their constituents on June 18. Keliher, along with Carl Wilson, director of the DMR Bureau of Marine Science...

According to government statistics, commercial fishing is the most dangerous occupation in the United States, well ahead of logging. Lubec's Safe Harbor committee, an ad-hoc working group established two years ago by the select board, has been striving to address this issue, and they have a plan.

The beleaguered McGlashan-Nickerson house, owned by the National Park Service (NPS) and located in Red Beach as part of the St. Croix Island International Historic Site complex, may have a new lease on life.