Dover-Foxcroft voters elected to maintain the town’s dam on the Piscatquis River and forgo removal plans. The move ends one of the most immediate paths to removing the deteriorating structure and obligates the town to spend millions on repairs. READ: buff.ly/3RkSRdZ

We're pleased to welcome Adrienne Washington (Keith Washington) to our newsroom as our rural communities reporter and to announce Emmett Gartner as our environmental reporter! themainemonitor.org/washington-joi…

“We are never receiving enough money to even scratch the surface of the problem.” Read Emily K. Bader on tribal opioid settlement $ & how one Wabanaki group is approaching addiction treatment The Maine Monitor (pix by Katherine Emery) buff.ly/3LoMeUG

Officials in a small Kennebec Valley town are preparing for a future of more frequent and intense floods. Their efforts could make the difference for residents who were nearly left behind during the last one. The Maine Monitor (photos by Garrick Hoffman) buff.ly/3AYPV1x

In Mount Desert, the median house price doubled to 900k in just 5 years. For The Maine Monitor Josh Keefe dove into one attempt to build workforce housing & the ways 7 wealthy summer residents are fighting to stop the project— a project that’s 6 units total themainemonitor.org/mdi-workforce-…

This story was possible because grist generously shared data with local reporters -- I knew nothing about school trust land! If you want to learn more about state trust lands on a national scale, check out their Trust Issues investigation: grist.org/indigenous/how…

ICYMI Phil Cyr has been in the nursing home business for nearly 50 years. I spent two days at his facility in northern Maine hearing why he says the job has become impossible -- and why so many Maine homes are closing. themainemonitor.org/nursing-home-o…

TPG's recent lawsuit filed in Delaware against Quantum Loophole alleges the company's overseeing of a data center campus project in Frederick County and a fiber-optic ring project "has been rife with incompetence, malfeasance, and failure.” for the fnp: shorturl.at/9gxrt

Opponents argue MD is allowing destruction of centuries-old trees and violating a law meant to protect the state's only wild and scenic river. times-news.com/news/local_new…

THIS IS INSANE! St. Petersburg has reported 5.09 inches of rain in ONE HOUR and 9.04 inches in3 hours. That’s more rare than a thousand year rain event! Thresholds for 1,000-year rain there: 5.56”/1 hour 7.16”/2 hours 8.50”/3 hours MyRadar Weather

Late payments > contractors, displaced homeowners, money woes since Jan now at $150m+ 1600 Hurricane Matthew, Florence survivors still in line. Will ⁦Governor Josh Stein⁩ #ncga give ⁦ReBuild NC⁩ more $? ⁦NC House Press⁩ insideclimatenews.org/news/16102024/…

A little over 2 weeks after Hurricane Helene turned living rooms into murky pools and washed away homes, evictions and foreclosures are picking back up. There is a long history of hurricanes being used to displace Black folks, it might happen again. capitalbnews.org/hurricanes-evi…

The forecast high today, Nov. 6, is 80 degrees. The average temperature on this day, according to the latest climate normals, is 50 degrees. The heat will kill you first. thebaltimorebanner.com/community/publ…

In this brave Hakai Magazine feature, JB MacKinnon explores polarization and local opposition to the Klamath River dam removals, and finds himself "holding two realities in mind that seem hardly able, these days, to share the same space." Timely indeed. hakaimagazine.com/features/the-o…

"We all thought that it was a stupid idea to build a hospital in a flood plain. It's like, who does that." Hurricane Helene destroyed Unicoi County Hospital. Officials knew it was a risk. From KFF Health News in Tennessee Lookout || tnlookout.bsky.social today. tennesseelookout.com/2024/12/16/hur…

VERMONT MEN'S SOCCER WINS ITS FIRST-EVER NCAA TITLE WITH A DRAMATIC SUDDEN DEATH EXTRA TIME GOAL 😱 WHAT A MOMENT FOR THE CATAMOUNTS 👏 #SCTop10

#Maine: Yarmouth Approves Plan To Remove Two Royal River Dams #news #environment Emmett Gartner reports for The Maine Monitor themainemonitor.org/royal-river-da…

USDA orders national forests open for major logging, likely including SoCal's big four: The Angeles, Los Padres, San Bernardino & Cleveland desertsun.com/story/news/env… via The Desert Sun

This week NPR aired (among many other stories) 2 interviews that I think show the breadth of what good public radio can do. The first: Mohsen Mahdawi (the Columbia student arrested at his citizenship appointment) from a correctional facility in Vermont npr.org/2025/04/29/nx-…

June 28, 2025 marks seven years since a mass shooting took the lives of journalists Wendi Winters, Rob Hiaasen, John McNamara, Gerald Fischman and Rebecca Smith. It was the worst mass killing of journalists in the history of the United States. We will never forget our Capital