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While Maine’s 2020 Census numbers indicated a small, 2.6% bump in population, the numbers’ impact on the outcomes of state political reapportionment and...

By Staff While Maine’s professional basketball team, the Red Claws, is sitting out a rescheduled season that began Wednesday night, their president has racked up a victory. The NBA’s development team conference, the G League, on Tuesday named Dajuan Eubanks as Team Executive of the Year for the 2019-20 season, according to a news release. The league gives the award annually to recognize the leader of a successful team based on nominations from presidents of the 28 G League squ...

Robert F. Bukaty / Associated Press While Maine winters are legendary for their severity, so far, this one has so far been relatively mild. “Temperatures are tending to run in Portland closer to 40 degrees when the normal high is much closer to 30 degrees,” says Mika Cempa with the National Weather Service in Gray. Cempa says the same phenomenon is being seen all over the state, with temperatures running 4-9 degrees above where they should be, and none of the subzero temperatures that ...

A Fairfield man casts a fly into a pool in the Kennebec River below the Shawmut dam. David Leaming/Morning Sentinel, file While Maine and the world have been focused on the pandemic, a fight over the future of Maine’s second largest river system is raging inside the electronic docket of an obscure federal relicensing proceeding. At stake in the drawn-out proceedings before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission relating to whether and under what terms to relicense a 106-year-old dam that ...

“It’s going to be easier and maybe there will be more people that will start to fly,” Gary Thompson said. It’s T-minus two weeks until Connecticut’s Travel Advisory mandate will be lifted. On March 19, the advisory will no longer be required but recommended. Passengers like Gary Thompson traveling from California, say while Connecticut’s current travel rules made him...