Since the last big debate about trans rights, private, gender-neutral bathrooms have proliferated at restaurants, schools and workplaces.
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Community Resource Fair draws 100 for support, connection, food at Fayette school
The April 5 Resource Health Fair in Fayette brought together over 100 residents, volunteers and vendors for a day of networking, community support and free services.
Developer for Gulf of Maine offshore wind project puts power contract talks on hold
Pine Tree Offshore Wind has requested that the talks be temporarily suspended, citing ‘recent shifts in the energy landscape.’
UMaine to pause new graduate student job offers, citing funding uncertainty
The flagship public university in Orono will temporarily pause funded offers for graduate students like research assistantships, which make up about a quarter of the current graduate student population.
Maine under attack? Trump-Mills clash is followed by chaos and confusion
The president singled out Maine’s governor in a Feb. 21 meeting at the White House; she replied, ‘See you in court.’ Some national observers say Maine is feeling the consequences.
Maine Sea Grant in jeopardy after Trump administration terminates $4.5 million grant program
The move to discontinue the four-year agreement — which comes amid the White House’s efforts to slash the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s budget — leaves the fishery organization’s programming and 20 employees in limbo.
USDA announces Title IX investigation into UMaine
The announcement comes a day after the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights launched an investigation into the Maine Department of Education and a Maine school district.
Once poised to lead in offshore wind, Maine has stumbled
The state has a fleeting chance to get back in the race in 2025, despite President Trump’s antipathy.
Extreme climate caused West Greenland lakes to brown
Fulbright Distinguished Arctic Scholar and University of Maine Climate Change Institute Associate Director Jasmine Saros, also a professor of paleolimnology and lake ecology with UMaine’s School of Biology and Ecology, said the rapid alteration in West Greenland’s lakes contrasts with the slow, multi-decade-long browning experienced in lakes across the Northern Hemisphere, including those in Maine.
UMaine develops way to monitor lobster industry
This study is the latest example of how UMaine students and faculty are preserving and propelling the state’s blue economy, industries that use ocean resources for economic growth without jeopardizing the environment.