It’s not hard to imagine a trophy house or two at Otter Point, or a resort at Sand Beach.

A years-long negotiation with the Belfast City Council has resolved, allowing the high-profile waterfront business Front Street Shipyard to expand onto city property.

“Them devil carts are injurious and run over hens and raise up ructions generally.”

—Abiel O. Curtis, 1906

The “Quiet Side” of Mount Desert Island engenders devotion by the people who live there. That’s the case of four Southwest Harbor businessmen who are seeking to enhance the community’s well-being and provide economic stimulus...

The new Schoodic Marine Center is opening soon for its first season and could boost visitation as well as facilitate on-the-water education and research opportunities in the less-visited part of Acadia National Park.

Mussel larvae can recognize and respond to a broad range of odor cues when deciding whether to settle in wild beds or on aquaculture lines.

The Hinckley Company’s boatbuilding plant in Trenton was a hive of activity on a recent day, with 25 to 30 boats in different stages of production, from molding to sea trials.

It’s a typical scene these days.

DOT is offering two new design concepts. A bypass is not an option in either proposal.

Not only did Bucksport lose the paper mill business and jobs that sustained its economy and tax base when Verso closed its operation there, but the mill itself will be scrapped and hauled away. In that fate lies opportunity, tied to the town’s status as a port community.