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The Down East Sunrise Trail was rendered impassable at the Machias dike because of January's twin storms.

One of the most beloved and beautiful stretches of the Down East Sunrise Trail reopened this week, months after being hit by winter storms.

From Kittery to Eastport, communities are elevating wastewater tanks and buildings and making other changes to protect them from sea-level rise.

When Professor Tora Johnson and her University of Maine at Machias team were preparing an application for a federal grant to help fund a seawall and berms to protect low-lying downtown Machias from floods, it seemed they had a project that fit...

Maine, with its thousands of miles of serpentine coastline and communities highly vulnerable to flooding and storms, would seem the perfect candidate for FEMA’s Hazard Mitigation Assistance grants, an umbrella of awards aimed at making towns and cities more resilient to natural disasters and less reliant on federal funding when calamities do strike. But communities aren’t applying for the funding — and when they do, few are successful.

By Kate Cough, The Maine Monitor November 25, 2023 Maine, with its thousands of miles of serpentine coastline and communities highly vulnerable to flooding and storms, would seem the perfect candidate for FEMA’s Hazard Mitigation Assistance grants, an umbrella of awards aimed at making towns and cities more resilient to natural disasters and less reliant

Small cities and towns face many challenges when it comes to applying for grants, including being unaware of the programs in the first place.

The temporary bridge over the Machias dike will be completed by Christmas.

Riverfront property owners are relieved, but others are raising environmental concerns.

Wiggly Bridge Distillery owners are challenging a recent University of Maine study alleging they are to blame for whiskey fungus coating York homes.