Kennebec Journal: The state medical examiner has ruled that the man found dead last week on Bailey Island drowned. The body of 28-year-old Ryan Johnson of Harpswell was found on the shore by a fisherman last Thursday morning...

Capt. Terry Alexander, a 4th generation commercial fisherman from Harpswell, Maine, was interviewed in a recent NOAA newsletter in which he shares his thoughts on reviving a fishery for redfish in the Gulf of Maine. Here is the interview:...

Kennebec Journal: Officials said a California man is in stable condition after overturning his boat in the ocean off Maine. The Cumberland County Sheriff’s Department said 25-year-old John Alexander Eckhouse of Sherman Oaks, California, flipped a 14’ Boston Whaler...

A rare shark sighting at a boatyard in Midcoast Maine has residents buzzing with excitement. People at Great Island Boat Yard in Harpswell, Maine, were able to photograph and videotape a roughly 6-foot shark recently as it swam up...

Portland Press Herald: Seven groups are interested in taking ownership of Halfway Rock Light Station off Harpswell or Boon Island Light Station off York — or both. The U.S. General Services Administration in Boston received 6 letters of interest...

The Maine Maritime Museum of Bath, Maine, will debut a Maine-produced documentary about a 1941 boating disaster in Casco Bay that claimed 35 lives will be shown publicly for the first time at the museum on Saturday, March 5....

Kennebec Journal: Maine has received $2.3 million in U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service grants to restore and protect coastal wetlands. The money was awarded to the Maine Department of Inland fisheries for 3 projects in Harpswell, the Pleasant River...

KnoxVillage Soup: An important wharf in the Harpswell, Maine, fishing community is the latest project to be protected under the state’s Working Waterfront Access Pilot Program, a Dec. 9 news release said. The wharf had been owned by Bob...