WASHINGTON, July 24 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release: * * * Maine Governor's Office of Policy Innovation and the Future is part of a coalition selected by the EPA to receive a $450 million Climate Pollution Reduction Grant to tackle climate change, improve air quality, and advance environmental justice * * * BOSTON (JULY 22, 2024) - Today, as part of the Biden-Harris Administration's Investing in America agenda, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agenc  more

PORTLAND, Maine, July 23 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Maine issued the following news release: An Orange, New Jersey man pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Portland to burglarizing two Maine post offices and robbing at knifepoint two U.S. Postal Service (USPS) letter carriers. According to court records, during a one-week period in January 2024, Winston McLeod, 31, and a coconspirator broke into the Paris and North Monmouth post offices and stole money ord  more

WASHINGTON, July 23 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia issued the following news release: A Maine man pleaded guilty today to assaulting law enforcement with a dangerous weapon during the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol. His actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the 2020 presidential election. Christopher Maurer, 45, formerly of Biddeford, Maine, plead  more

WASHINGTON, July 23 -- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued the following news: For the first time since 1918, an astonishing 420 miles of salmon habitat in the Klamath River watershed in California and Oregon will be fully connected by September. This results from the world's largest dam removal effort, the Klamath River Renewal Project. The amount of habitat opened up on the Klamath is equivalent to the distance between Portland, Maine, and Philadelphia-a journey through  more