It's not clear why Scott Brown, 17, went underwater and didn't come back up while swimming with his family in Embden Pond. SKOWHEGAN ... said Jared Herrick, of the Maine Warden service.

Because of the ice, the loon couldn’t take flight from Tacoma Lake. On… A fire department came to the rescue of a loon on a frozen pond in Maine over the weekend.

FREEPORT, Maine (AP) — The population of a beloved Maine bird, the common loon, dipped for the second straight year, but wildlife surveyors said they are heartened by an increased number of the ...

BELGRADE — Abigail Mitchell, 11, stood in her grandfather’s motorboat and scanned the unusually calm waters of Great Pond with binoculars ... an icon of Maine lakes, the loon.