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The Harpswell Fire Department and U.S. Coast Guard are responding to a boat explosion in the area of Eagle Island and Upper ...
Mariena Beal, 14, pilots My Turn, a 32-foot lobster boat, in a race along the Maine coast. Her father, Jeremy Beal, acts as chief mate. Greta Rybus for The New York Times ...
Sadie Samuels, a lobster fisherman who works off the coast of Maine, practically grew up on the water. She told Fox News Digital why she chose this life — and her favorite way to eat lobster.
Four Black teens are learning how to lobster in a new program called "Lift All Boats." Maine's seafood packing plants have a diverse workforce, but commercial fishing is mostly white.
In Maine, the intense focus on a single species of lobster ‒ Homarus americanus ‒ helped build a generations-old culture of coastal fishing done in small boats close to shore.
Five people are safe after their boat exploded on a pond in Maine Saturday afternoon.It happened on Thomas Pond in Raymond, Maine. Firefighters said 5 people were sent into the water, other people ...
A Good Samaritan on a lobster boat helped first responders pull out a person trapped in their car underwater, Maine police said. Getty Images/iStockphoto A person was rescued from their submerged ...
One of a handful of female lobster boat captains, and a well-known public advocate for the lobstering community, she was close-mouthed about her own political leanings.
Billy Bob Faulkingham, the Republican leader in the Maine House, said he and Alex Polk are lucky to be alive after his boat was struck by 'a giant rogue wave' east of Mount Desert Island Friday.
Virginia Oliver, 103, made headlines in 2021, when she was recognized as the oldest lobsterwoman in Maine. She's still going strong.
A man and his dog were rescued from the water in Harpswell Saturday afternoon after a lobster boat exploded and caught fire ...