Bath museum’s new exhibit reveals Maine’s connection to the slave trade

Artifacts featured in the new exhibit reveal Bath-built ships and Maine captains and crews transported both enslaved people and crops manufactured by slavery.

Bath shipyard remains quiet on potential fallout of vaccine mandate for federal contractors

Bath Iron Works continues to refuse to answer questions regarding how many workers are vaccinated against COVID-19, how many have quit over the requirement, and what the company's contingency plan is.

Navy commissions Bath-built, Pearl Harbor-based USS Daniel Inouye

Inouye was the first Japanese American to serve in Congress when he was elected to the House in 1959, the year Hawaii became a state.

House passes defense bill calling for potential Bath-built ships

The NDAA authorizes three Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, the main type of ship BIW builds, but doesn't dictate which shipyard will construct the ships.

Festival of Lessons and Carols events planned around Maine

Senate hampers passage of annual defense bill that funds Bath-built ships

Sixty Senators needed to vote to open debate on its version of the National Defense Authorization Act, but that vote failed 45-51. 

Bath pizza restaurant to give away free Thanksgiving Day meals

A free Thanksgiving meal will be available to anyone who wants it from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Bath restaurant on Thanksgiving Day.

‘Business is bonkers’ in downtown Bath this year as holiday season approaches

Sen. Angus King said he was impressed by the "vitality" of Bath’s thriving downtown while visiting small businesses Monday.

Gov. Mills commends Bath-area students during record vaccine clinic

About 110 Bath-area students ages 5-11 got vaccinated through the clinic, making it the most well-attended COVID-19 vaccine clinics in a school, according Regional School Unit 1 Assistant Superintendent Katie Joseph.

Two more passengers sue Bath museum over schooner capsizing

The suit claims the schooner's owner, the Maine Maritime Museum in Bath, is to blame for a vessel that was not seaworthy and for a captain and crew "unfit, incompetent, ill experienced" and "ill trained."