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A new film explores the newly discovered underground cities in northern France where World War I soldiers on both sides of the bloody trenches of the Western Front took refuge.

Passamaquoddy tribal members have filed two lawsuits over the elver fishery, stemming from disputes over late filings of landing reports from last year.

Although a definitive answer on what will happen to the dike bridge in Machias is far from ready, the Maine Department of Transportation (MDOT) announced at a meeting April 2 that its preliminary recommendation is to replace the bridge in kind at an estimated cost of $2.4 million.

The long-awaited Calais tax increment financing (TIF) district has been established, opening the door to economic growth. The district was approved at a city council meeting on February 23 following a public hearing.

A family's home went up in flames on Monday morning, March 6, on Boyden's Lake in Robbinston. Robbinston Fire Chief Robert Merrill reports the two-story house on Loone Lane, just off the Lake Road, belonged to Eddie and Blanche Barnes.

Four area towns placed in the top 10 producers for softshell clams during 2016, according to landings data released by the Maine Department of Marine Resources (DMR) during the recent Maine Fishermen's Forum in Rockport.