A Lawrence gang member was sentenced Tuesday in Boston federal court for conspiring to commit kidnapping, smuggling drugs into a jail, distributing fentanyl and cocaine and having a gun illegally, federal authorities said.

The region's electric grid operator will oversee a more than $1 billion transmission upgrade along the Maine-New Hampshire line.

Anyone with information about where Burgos may be or anyone who may have seen Burgos is asked to call Rumford police at 207-364-4551 or the Oxford County Regional Communications C

The announcement came one week after Gov. Janet Mills sparred publicly with President Donald Trump at the White House about his executive order on transgender athletes. There is no indication that any of the other 33 Sea Grant programs around the country are facing funding cuts — at least for now.

Four years ago, state officials first investigated a ‘prohibited collective’ of medical caregivers and illegal grow houses identical to the ones later raided by police. Now, 1 in 10 Maine caregivers exhibits the hallmarks of those same operations.

In a bid to protect North Atlantic right whales, many scientists are promoting alternative lobster fishing gear that minimizes the risk of entanglement. While some lobstermen in Massachusetts have agreed to use this new gear,

UMass gained five points from its last series against UMass Lowell, winning Thursday night’s shootout and claiming a 5-3 victory on Saturday. With Maine being another physical HEA team, the Minutemen are looking to take their strengths back home.

A Massachusetts woman has died following a snowmobile crash in Maine. According to the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife, on Friday, February 28th, around 1:30 p.m., 53-year-old Stefanie Cappello of Southborough was traveling northbound on snowmobile trail ITS85/86 with a group of nine snowmobiles,