The funding would be a down payment on a fifth DDG-51 destroyer, which Maine’s Susan Collins is pushing for.
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Study looks at Sandy’s impacts on tidal marshes
Researchers will compare the abundance of marsh plants and birds before and after the storm from Maine to Virginia.
Portland symposium to focus on climate, fisheries
Reports from fishermen of warming waters and lower stocks over the last several months prompted the symposium.
DEP calls for weakening of Maine smog regulations
Critics say the changes would remove Maine from a regional effort to control cross-border pollution.
Maine seeks to expand pest ban
The plan adds 81 Maine communities to areas quarantined against the invasive hemlock woolly adelgid.
Mainer in space discusses dramatic rescue, missing home
Astronaut Chris Cassidy and colleague Karen Nyberg talk to the Press Herald via video conference from the International Space Station.
Lewiston arson suspect, 13, to be held at treatment facility
Based on a psychological evaluation, Abdi Ibrahim will be transferred while he awaits trial, a judge rules.
Maine Correctional Center in Windham gets new superintendent
The department’s current regional administrator for central Maine is appointed to head the medium security prison.
5 nabbed following Waterville home invasion robbery
The arrests were a ‘spinoff’ from an earlier theft at Cumberland Farms, police said.
Court upholds smog standard that Maine sought to strengthen
However, the federal ruling says the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency must revisit a secondary standard aimed at protecting forests and other vegetation from ozone pollution.