Report: Fewer guns found at New England airports

Pamela Smart, who recruited teen lover to kill her husband, to seek parole again

New Hampshire authorities rejected her request last year for parole consideration or sentence reduction.

Les Otten steps up so Dixville Notch can retain claim to electoral fame

The tiny New Hampshire community, which traditionally is among the first to cast ballots for president in primaries and the general election, needed a fifth resident.  

Avangrid betting big on renewable energy

In addition to its controversial transmission line project in Maine, the firm is pushing two big wind farms off the coast of Nantucket Island to furnish green power to New England.

In search of Thoreau’s Mount Katahdin map

A retired University of Maine at Farmington administrator has been trying to track down an elusive 'diagram' Henry David Thoreau may have drawn more than 160 years ago.

Wild turkey menace: Birds peck cars, deflate kiddie pools and harass the elderly

Shiny black cars seem to be frequent targets for the turkeys' wrath, with male birds perceiving their reflection as competition.

Mother killed 2 children, then herself at Boston parking garage, police believe

Erin Pascal, 40 and her kids – Allison, 4, and Andrew, 15 months – were pronounced dead at a local hospital.

USM student recalls frightening encounter with suspect in Scarborough killing

Sierra Eichner, now 22, says she was a freshman at the University of Southern Maine in Gorham when she was cornered and touched inappropriately by Quinton Hanna.

Slow-moving storm pummels parts of the East, and 1 town gets 27 inches of snow

More than 660 flights into or out of the U.S. were canceled Monday, with more than 4,000 delays, and airports in the New York and Boston areas accounted for many of them.

Helmets don’t offer full protection on slopes, study warns

Skiers were less likely to have skull fractures but twice as likely to suffer severe injuries, two trauma surgeons find.