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(Photo courtesy of Roush CleanTech) The Bonny Eagle School District in Buxton, Maine, is using propane autogas to fuel 30 of the 38 buses that it runs daily. In addition, Bonny Eagle says it’s the ...

The Maine Department of Transportation is responsible for these orange fence things. All through November, the MaineDOT had their crews installing 100 snow fencing arrays way up in northern Maine.

Almost 1,000 kilometres off the Thai coast devastated by a tsunami 20 years ago, engineers lower a detection buoy into the waves -- a key link in a warning system intended to ensure no disaster is ...

Orange juice is the world’s most popular fruit juice. Manufacturers produce around 1.6 billion metric tons of this beverage each year. In addition to buying orange juice in many varieties at ...

A New Jersey magazine and newspaper distributor will be paying nearly $300,000 in back wages and penalties after misclassifying employees as independent contractors, authorities said. The New Jersey ...

The Cape du Couedic wave buoy's data started becoming degraded in August. It has since been deactivated for well over three months. A wave buoy out of order since September will not be replaced ...

In Maine, Kamala Harris has won three of the four Electoral College votes up for grabs, NBC News projects. The expected vote is the total number of votes that are expected in a given race once all ...

Karl Schatz is the cofounder and executive director of Community Plate, a Maine nonprofit dedicated to building community through shared food and stories. Send comments to magazine@globe.com.