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Craig Mott, 36, center, the dock manager at the Friendship Lobster Co-Op, helps unload the day's lobster haul from the Miss Kylie in Friendship Harbor on Wednesday.

In the first six months since the Maine Turnpike Authority increased tolls at various spots along the 106-mile highway, revenue increased by 16 percent even as the number of cars on the turnpike dropped by 4 percent.

Red tide monitoring is going high-tech with a robotic "laboratory in a can." A garbage can-size canister was deployed in late April in the ocean waters off southern Maine to collect and transmit data about toxin-producing algae blooms, known as red tides, that show up in the Gulf of Maine each spring.

Congress is preparing to debate major farm and food policy bills that would likely cut funding to programs used by many low-income Mainers but could separately provide a boost to Maine's thriving local foods movement.

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A new memorial is being erected to honor Maine emergency medical services personnel.

At first glance, the scene at the Penobscot Salmon Club on Friday seemed like old times: Trucks packed the small parking lot.

Commencements are being held Saturday for graduates of Southern Maine Community College in South Portland, Kennebec Valley Community College in Fairfield, Northern Maine Community College in Presque Isle and York County Community College in Wells.

Jim Stott, co-owner of Stonewall Kitchen, left, speaks about once needing a bone marrow transfusion and wonders, if he didn't have health insurance at the time, what would have been the outcome.

Survey of Households - The preliminary seasonally adjusted unemployment rate estimate for Maine was 6.9 percent in April, down slightly from 7.1 percent in March and 7.3 percent one year ago.

Spring Bird Walk on the Pleasant Point Nature Preserve, Cushing, led by Georges River Land Trust volunteer and Midcoast Maine Audubon Society former president Bill Goodwill.

In early June, the University of Maine will launch a small-scale offshore demonstrator of a floating wind turbine, fabricated in its lab with a lightweight concrete foundation and composite tower.

On Wednesday, May 29 at 6:30pm at the Belfast Free Library , located at 106 High Street, the community is invited to a presentation with Kevin Lewis, CEO of Maine Community Health Options , a nonprofit organization that will provide affordable health insurance to Maine people and small businesses beginning in January 2014.

By Dominik Lobkowicz Long-time Dresden Fire Chief Gerald Lilly is stepping down from his position as of June 30.

A Turner man sentenced to 40 years in prison for killing his wife in 2010 appealed his sentence Thursday in Maine's highest court.

Ted Talbot, spokesman for the Maine Department of Transportation , said the road closure will begin May 21 with an estimated reopening in the afternoon of May 24, weather permitting.

Senior Lorna Stephens, junior Ezra Woodye-Millay and sophomore Baxter Forrest of George Stevens Academy auditioned and were accepted to perform in the 2013 All-State Classical Music Festival.

What some thought would be an easy process to secure a new zip code for the town is not going to be so simple after all, members of the Board of Selectmen said at a May 13 meeting.

Gov. Paul LePage 's veto of a bill that would prevent Maine cities and towns from requiring superintendents to live within their school districts was upheld Tuesday by the Legislature.

PORTLAND Jason Twardus, who is serving a 38-year prison sentence for the murder of his former fiancee in 2007, is asking Maine's highest court for a new trial or acquittal on grounds that new evidence that surfaced before and after his trial could have been used in his defense.