The situation is alarming Maine’s lobster fishermen, because some of the deaths are from entanglements with fishing gear. There were at least five additional live entanglements.

By 2014, more than 60 percent of MDI’s workers were commuting to the island because they couldn’t find affordable housing there...

Maine’s Department of Transportation has awarded the contract for a new ferry to Washburn & Doughty of East Boothbay. The company was one of five bidders for the 154-foot passenger-vehicle ferry, and the only Maine-based company.

The batteries at Fort Scammell faced east toward Whitehead Passage, between Cushing and Peaks islands…

We’re now seeing evidence of investor and banking activity, and consumer confidence, along the length of our coast.

Lobster landings and the value of the catch both decreased in 2017, but Department of Marine Resources officials say the fishery remains strong.

Tim Sheehan, who with his wife operates Gulf of Maine Inc., believes he’s found a safer, more fuel efficient, and less environmentally damaging way to harvest scallops.

Wherever there’s an abundance of Atlantic menhaden along the East Coast, there, too, is an abundance of other wildlife—humpback whales and bottlenose dolphins, striped bass and bluefish, and bald eagles and osprey.

The days of handshake deals … without public discussion are on their way out.