The Kennebec Journal Online reports that the harmful, pervasive and invasive aquatic plant known as milfoil has been eliminated in Casco’s Pleasant Lake, according to Maine environmental officials. Andrew Fisk of the Department of Environmental Protection said that Pleasant...

A select group of Maine lobstermen will be helping scientists study herring populations in the Gulf of Maine. The Maine Technology Institute has awarded a $532,000 grant to the Gulf of Maine Research Institute in Portland for herring research, according...

Coast Guard Sector Northern New England is dealing with large number of unmanned vessels after the strong winds of last weekend. The sector had 17 cases over the weekend involving unmanned vessels adrift during heavy weather It is the...

Well-known Maine author and commercial swordfish-boat captain Linda Greenlaw is using her name to help promote the sale of swordfish in New England and beyond. According to an article in the Portland Press Herald, the Hannaford supermarket chain and...

Since your editor and site co-director, Tom Richardson elected to flee to the other side of the Atlantic for a brief reprieve from the relentless deadline schedule he’s created, he asked that I step in to handle the Weekly...

PORTLAND, Maine – As heavy weather is expected to move through the area over the next few days, Coast Guard Sector Northern New England is asking that boaters make an extra effort to secure their vessels to prevent them...

Philadelphia claims to be the birthplace of the Navy because it was in that city that the Continental Congress voted to outfit two sailing vessels. But, according to a story in the Boston Globe, at least five communities in...

According to a news release from the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, researchers at the Maine college say they’ve discovered that humpback whales may travel greater distances in the world’s oceans than previously believed. Researchers with the...

A lecture by Jon Johansen in Rockland, Maine, to be held on October 14 will focus on the history of shipwrecks in the Northeast. Johansen, the publisher of Maine Coastal News, will lecture on a variety of disasters, including...

Seacoast Online reports on the battle between longtime captain John Ellis and the town of Wells, Maine, over the mooring for Ellis’s 40-foot whaler, the Deborah Ann. Ellis has fond memories of boating as a child, and of fishing...