The Man with a Plan to Save Maine’s Moose Population Lee Kantar, the only dedicated state moose biologist in the country, is charged with everything from managing the hunt to countering the deadly ...

Shark Attacks in Maine Were Unthinkable — Until Bailey Island Maine's first-ever fatal shark attack jolted natives and visitors alike into acknowledging that great whites regularly swim off the ...

Best of Maine 2022 Our annual roundup of Maine’s best everything: art galleries to architects, beers to boutiques, golf courses to gift shops. How did your favorites do?

Green Crabs Are Maine’s Most Delicious Scourge Meet the scientists and chefs who want to get invasive green crabs out of Maine’s waters and into your belly.

With miles of undeveloped shoreline and quintessential down east quietude, Maine's Orange River is a critical link between ocean and inland ecosystems.

50 Shades of Chambray Being a thrilling account of how the Saco-Biddeford cotton empire gave rise to a trashy 19th-century literary craze full of torrid affairs, horrendous murders, and ruined females ...

The potential's there, says an unorthodox global conservation group with an increasingly large Maine footprint.

The Maine Farmer Saving the World’s Rarest Heirloom Seeds Will Bonsall has spent a lifetime scattering seeds across the country. But will his efforts fall among the thorns?

The German POWs Who Tried to Flee Maine for Argentina During World War II, thousands of German prisoners of war were held in internment camps across Maine. In the winter of 1945, three of them got ...

Lynne Drexler Saw the World Through Kaleidoscope Eyes The art establishment ignored Lynne Drexler in life and, for more than two decades, also in death. But suddenly, the brilliantly colored canvases ...

Not all bark is created equal, 82-year-old Butch Phillips says, and he should know. For more than 30 years, Phillips, a member of the Penobscot Nation who grew up on Indian Island, has been making ...