By Lauren McCauley | Editor
“Um, we just umm, I’m an ICE agent, we just um, there has been a shooting right there at the center… and High St.” - unnamed ICE agent, speaking to a 911 dispatcher after the fatal Biddeford shooting.
Researchers catch lobsters as part of long-term ecosystem survey in Maine. (Photo courtesy of GMRI.org)
ECONOMY
By Kaitlyn Budion
Canada reversed course on proposed seafood tariffs, easing concern for the impact on Maine’s lobster industry, which was facing a 25% import tax.
IMMIGRATION
By Emma Davis
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has arrested more people in the state so far in 2026 than in the previous two years combined, and those arrests have overwhelmingly been people who did not have criminal convictions.
ENERGY
By Kaitlyn Budion
The Maine Public Utilities Commission will finally move forward with plans for a new transmission line to northern Maine and an 800 megawatt wind project.
ELECTION 2026
By Kaitlyn Budion and Emma Davis
“I’m going to say very simply, my friends, everything that we’ve accomplished over the past couple of years, it could be undone if you send a lot of crazy people to Congress to fight against us,” Vice President JD Vance told the crowd gathered in Brewer.
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