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1 day ago | newscentermaine.com | Donovan Lynch

HALIFAX, NS — Gov. Janet Mills met with Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston on Wednesday in the last major event of a goodwill trip to Canada that put the diplomatic tensions between the U.S. and Canada into open view—even as relations on the state-provincial level appeared cordial. In the closed-door discussion in Halifax, Mills spoke with Houston about issues of trade, offshore wind, and tourism—the crux of the governor’s trip abroad.

3 days ago | newscentermaine.com | Allison Gormly

INDIANAPOLIS — Most parents give their kids some sort of allowance. The goal is often to teach kids about money and how to handle it. In the past year, almost one out of three parents gave their kids a raise, according to a Wells Fargo study. Louann Millar, who works in the company's youth and student banking division, said the reality is, the things that children and young adults are spending their money on have increased in price.

4 days ago | newscentermaine.com | Rob Caldwell

PORTLAND, Maine — After the lobster, is there any creature in Maine that’s more iconic, more a part of the state’s identity, than the moose? About 65,000 moose roam the woods and fields and waterways of Maine. No state except Alaska has a larger moose population. Tourists come from all over in hopes of seeing these ungainly yet majestic animals in the wild. Unfortunately, Maine’s moose population is in trouble.

4 days ago | newscentermaine.com | Rob Caldwell

PORTLAND, Maine — Actors, almost without exception, love what they do and want to do more of it. When opportunities to perform don’t arise, sometimes they have to create their own. That’s what Dave Register, an actor from Maine best known for his work on the Amazon TV series “Fallout,” did in founding the Portland Theater Festival. “I have always wanted to have a company in Maine,” he said, although he expected it would happen when he was in middle age or beyond.

6 days ago | newscentermaine.com | Sophie Bates

JENA, La. — Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil was released Friday from federal immigration detention, freed after 104 days by a judge’s ruling after becoming a symbol of President Donald Trump ’s clampdown on campus protests. The former Columbia University graduate student left a federal facility in Louisiana on Friday. He is expected to head to New York to reunite with his U.S. citizen wife and infant son, born while Khalil was detained.