Canada’s Senate gave final passage Tuesday to the federal government’s bill to legalize cannabis, though Canadians will have to wait at least a couple of months to legally buy marijuana as their country becomes the second in the world to make pot legal nationwide.
Prices for wood to build and renovate houses have as much as doubled over the past six months, increasing costs for consumers but boosting Maine’s softwood sales and signaling a turnaround in that segment of the forestry market, industry experts say.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents set up a checkpoint Wednesday on Interstate 95, stopping drivers and asking them questions about their citizenship before letting them proceed.
Area residents worried about the potential impact of an invasive insect that devastates ash trees met with state officials Monday night to voice their concerns and ask questions about what to do to protect their wood lots.
The Maine Bureau of Highway Safety and the Maine Department of Transportation launched a campaign June 13 to reduce the number of motor-vehicle-related pedestrian deaths.
Maine’s maple and honey producers are hoping the federal government backs off proposed new labeling requirements that they fear could undo decades of industry marketing of the natural sweeteners.
By August, a collaborative of St. John Valley school districts could very well be formulating plans for a new unified high school that the state will fund.
Denise Duperre still remembers her father coming home from a day of cutting trees around Madawaska when she was 11 or 12. He shook caterpillars out of his hair into the bathroom sink.
Maine employers and insurers cannot be compelled to pay for an injured worker’s medical marijuana, the state’s highest court ruled Thursday. In a 5-2 decision, justices with the Maine Supreme Judicial Court ruled federal law takes precedence in the case of former Madawaska millworker Gaetan H. Bourgoin vs. Twin Rivers Paper Co.
According to a 2018 national maple production report, the state of Maine ranks right up near the top of the maple-syrup-producing states at number three.
