Fall is back, and bringing with it jack-o’-lanterns, football, pumpkin spice everything and, in some parts of the country, especially vibrant foliage
September 21, 2024
A paid passenger on an expedition to the Titanic with the company that owned the Titan submersible testified before a U.S. Coast Guard investigatory panel Friday that the mission he took part in was aborted due to an apparent mechanical failure
September 20, 2024
The scientific director for the company that owned the Titan submersible that imploded last year while on its way to the Titanic wreckage testified that the sub had malfunctioned just prior to the fatal dive
September 19, 2024
A key employee who labeled a doomed experimental submersible unsafe prior to its last, fatal voyage testified Tuesday that the tragedy could have been prevented if a federal safety agency had investigated his complaint
September 17, 2024
The lead engineer for an experimental submersible that imploded en route to the wreck of the Titanic says he felt pressured to get the vessel ready to dive and refused to pilot it for a journey several years earlier
September 16, 2024
Former employees of the company that owned an experimental submersible that imploded on its way to the wreck of the Titanic are scheduled to testify before a Coast Guard investigatory board
September 09, 2024
A wave of odd-colored lobsters has showed up in fishers' traps, supermarket seafood tanks and scientists’ laboratories over the last year
September 07, 2024
The location of a bronze statue not seen in decades is among the discoveries made by the company that owns the salvage rights to the Titanic during its first expedition to the site in years
September 02, 2024
New Hampshire health authorities say a person infected with the mosquito-borne eastern equine encephalitis virus has died
August 27, 2024
One of the defendants in a wrongful death lawsuit stemming from the implosion of an undersea submersible is seeking to move the case from state to federal court
August 26, 2024
The official nonprofit organization of the National Park Service is set to receive the largest grant in its history
August 26, 2024
Maine's secretary of state says independent presidential candidate Cornel West can appear on the ballot in Maine
August 21, 2024
The family of a French explorer who died in a submersible implosion has filed a more than $50 million lawsuit, saying the crew experienced “terror and mental anguish” before the disaster and accusing the sub’s operator of gross negligence
August 07, 2024
The Coast Guard will hold a long-awaited public hearing about the deadly Titanic submersible disaster in September as it continues its investigation into the implosion of the vessel
July 30, 2024
Families of the victims of the deadliest mass shooting in Maine’s history are calling for a broader federal investigation into the circumstances surrounding the killings
July 24, 2024Maine is providing more than $21 million in grants to help dozens of waterfront communities rebuild from a series of devastating storms this past winter
July 22, 2024The owner and founder of the website Barstool Sports lost control of a boat off Nantucket before being rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard
July 16, 2024
Several commercial fishermen in New England have been sentenced in a fraud scheme that centered on a critically important species of bait fish and that prosecutors described as complex and wide-ranging
July 15, 2024The company that owns the salvage rights to the Titanic is undertaking its first expedition to the ship's wreckage in 14 years
July 14, 2024
Sen. Susan Collins didn’t vote for Donald Trump for president in 2016 or 2020, and the third time will not be the charm
July 12, 2024
Scientists say a large number of whales visiting the waters off New England included an uncommon sighting of an orca eating a tuna and an unusually large group of an endangered species of whale
June 13, 2024
A lieutenant colonel with the Army Reserves says a reservist who committed the deadliest mass shooting in Maine history had a low threat profile when he left a psychiatric hospital prior to the killings
June 17, 2024
A team of researchers set out to determine if today’s Hollywood blockbusters are reflective of the current climate crisis and found out they aren't most of the time
May 28, 2024
Representatives for a Maine company that plans to send small satellites into space from the Northeast’s most rural state say they hope to start launches next year
June 04, 2024
Scientists with a Boston aquarium are encouraging beachgoers to report sightings of white sharks this holiday weekend after signs of shark bites were observed on multiple marine mammals
May 23, 2024
Harris campaign reports spending nearly three times as much as Trump in August
New Zealand pilot Phillip Mehrtens freed from captivity in Indonesia's Papua
Sri Lanka has more women voters than men but no female presidential candidates
Israel-Hamas war latest: Israel claims death of Hezbollah commander as Beirut toll rises
Biden is putting personal touch on Asia-Pacific diplomacy in his final months in office
AI is helping shape the 2024 presidential race. But not in the way experts feared
Japan's Icom: highly unlikely wireless devices that exploded in Lebanon are our products
The Midwest could offer fall’s most electric foliage but leaf peepers elsewhere won’t miss out
Phillies clinch 3rd straight playoff berth and close in on NL East title
Wojnarowski one of the first significant sports 'insiders' to step away from the spotlight