Mainlanders must dispel the idea of island communities as existing like museums in a glass case.

Jason and Josh Joyce, cousins and life-long island residents, have been two of the first to venture into oyster farming. Their families have been on Swan’s Island for eight generations...

We Americans love the idea of frontiers, which have played an outsized role in the national imagination.

As it turns out, islanders are committed to cutting energy costs and consumption, as became apparent...

Located near the rock off the coast of Percé is Bonaventure Island, a Canadian national park...

She assumed they now lived on North Haven full time, and was disappointed to find they would leave in August.

Best Philbrook is one of the people featured in the Swan’s Island Historical Society’s new exhibit at the Burnt Coat Harbor Lighthouse, called “Maritime Women on Swan's Island.”

The trees set heavily, and we thinned relentlessly, rubbing and plucking hundreds of pea and olive-sized peaches…