The Maine Warden Service is urging snowmobilers, ice fishermen, and anyone else accessing waterways to use extreme caution after at least nine people reported breaking through thin ice on snowmobiles in the last 36-hours in all corners of the state.
Up in the remote Maine town of Allagash — you’ll get there just before the pavement ends and logging roads head into the big woods — Hilton Hafford is one of about a dozen town residents who regularly invite “neighbors” for dinner during the rugged winters.
Gov. Paul LePage announced Thursday that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has denied him on a second try in his long-standing battle to ban soft drink and candy purchases with federal food stamp benefits.
Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap reminds all Maine residents that state driver’s licenses and ID cards are currently valid for federal purposes such as air travel.
The company that bought FairPoint Communications is discarding the old name and making plans to upgrade the service of tens of thousands of customers in northern New England.
Meteorologists at the National Weather Service in Caribou said Monday that this month’s alternating spells of well below average temperatures and well above average temperatures have caused an excess of “liquid precipitation,” or rain and melted snow, in the region.
Despite subzero temperatures and a raging blizzard, wildlife biologists with the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife and a helicopter-based aerial crew located, captured and collared 83 moose in recent weeks in northern and western Maine
Jake Golton finished first in this year’s Irving 100 event in 10 hours and 15 minutes.
The snow and wind kept up for the 30-mile Mad Bomber event at this year’s Eagle Lake Sled Dog Races on Saturday. Mushers said the trail was good, even with a layer of granular sleet and snow mix on top.
A day of rain prior to the start of the Eagle Lake Sled Dog Races did little to dampen the excitement of the mushers and dogs as they took to the starting line.
