The first time Vinalhaven lobsterboat captain Frank Thompson trapped hagfish in the Gulf of Maine, the pinkish-gray, snakelike animals popped the hatch off his hold — with their slime. When stressed ...

“There’s nothing more relaxing, rejuvenating, and inspiring than hiking and photographing Baxter in fall.” Ongoing Project Climate Reanalyzer, an online platform for visually interpreting publicly ...

We couldn’t suppress a shock of recognition this winter upon opening our laptops and suddenly reading everywhere about the rise of the “lumbersexual.” You managed to miss this? Coined in October by ...

Jerry Elwell, Sherman Station’s best-known citizen, sits atop a stool in her home on the edge of the North Woods, 80 miles north of Bangor. As she chats, a commotion erupts in the other room and ...

John Meader runs a company called Northern Stars Planetarium, traveling around the midcoast and central Maine with an inflatable-dome star theater, for educational programming at schools, public ...

Wiping away what may or may not have been tears, the Maine senator and brief presidential front-runner dooms his primary chances — while shaping a generation of Maine leaders. To many, his name evokes ...

Canoeing has been intrinsic to life down east for a long while. This is especially true around Grand Lake Stream Plantation, in Washington County, where a sparkling-blue chain of lakes wends its way ...