A Venezuelan asylum seeker who was lawfully working on a drywall job in Robbinston ended up being detained by U.S. Border Patrol agents and spending over two months in immigration detention after a ...

Roosevelt Campobello International Park (RCIP) is facing a critical funding shortage as a result of an unresolved delay in part of the annual payment from the U.S. National Park Service (NPS). The ...

This information was provided during the Lubec Select Board meeting held June 18, during which the board narrowly approved allowing ATVs on certain municipal roads, subject to the local ATV club ...

The June 13 meeting of the Robbinston School Committee saw a review of two prospective budgets, only one of which maintains school choice for Robbinston students. The separate budgets were requested ...

Hunger is a significant problem in Washington County, and it is on the rise. Recent food insecurity reports place the county as having the least regular access to food in New England, for both ...

The alewife, long recognized by the Passamaquoddy people as the "fish that feeds all," is coming back to its ancestral spawning grounds in record numbers after decades of contending with obstructed ...

A dispute over whether seniors' caps for graduation at Shead High School could be decorated with articles of cultural or religious significance escalated quickly online and was diffused just as fast ...

Tractors stand at the ready along rolling wild blueberry barrens Downeast, where fields of naked stems offer no hint of the glorious techno color display to come. By late spring, roughly 47,000 acres ...

The tribal government at Sipayik is proceeding with plans to move its wastewater treatment plant because of the risks posed by rising sea levels, flooding and storm surges.

Fatal overdoses in Washington County have dropped by approximately 40% over the past two years, signifying a turning point in the battle against synthetic opioids even as new concoctions are entering ...

The Passamaquoddy Tribal Council at Sipayik decided at an April 22 meeting to terminate the employment of Vice Chief Ernest Neptune because of allegations of sexual harassment. The tribal council does ...

The Sipayik Community Clam Garden -- a project that began in 2022 in Half Moon Cove and has since become the largest soft-shell clam garden in the world -- is nearing its first harvest, according to ...