The tiny northeastern seacoast island of Nantucket, 43 square miles, and the giant, “Upper 49th” state of Alaska, 663,237 square miles, are about as dissimilar as could be.

The community’s leaders, who work collaboratively in the face of these challenges, were honored with the Island Institute’s Community Champion award at the Institute’s Waypoints Forum in Portland on Feb. 7.

“We’re it. There’s no mutual aid. There’s no other truck from another town that’s going to show up…”

The Isle au Haut Community Development Corporation recently closed on the purchase of a three-bedroom home, making it the fourth home in ICDC's rental stock.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced a $9.87 million investment in four infrastructure projects that will create or improve rural e-connectivity for 4,527 households and 215 businesses in rural Maine, part of the first round of USDA’s Reconnect Pilot Program.

Schoodic Point and its acres of pristine shoreline and deep woodlands dodged a bullet more than a century ago when plans by

The winner, Best Picture, will be chosen at the end of the evening…

Maine lost $1,642 per person in funds for just these five programs because of its undercount…

We found our old-fashioned rotary phone, which had been a housewarming present…