PORTLAND — Fishery managers are considering new regulatory alternatives for Atlantic bluefin tuna — majestic fish that can fetch thousands of dollars each — but New England fishermen fear the rules changes could result in smaller quotas for them.

RANGELEY — An 82-year-old man drowned while swimming off the end of his dock at his summer home on a lake in Rangeley, according to the Maine Warden Service.

AUGUSTA — Francophones, those of French heritage and their friends can feast and fraternize at the Le Club Calumet’s 2012 Festival de la Bastille, set for July 13-15.

KINGFIELD — The town will be able to apply for a state grant of up to $150,000 after voting to designate portions of it as a slum and blighted area.

The leader of the Maine Democratic Party said Monday that the lawmaker from Brunswick who was the subject of a temporary protection order filed by a woman he had a relationship with should abandon his re-election bid.

A new poll shows that independent Angus King is the heavy favorite to succeed U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe, and that a ballot question that would allow same-sex couples to marry in Maine has strong support.