Ice cream is a critical element of every Vacationland summer. Strolling down Main Street or sitting on a bench by the shore or relaxing after a hike — are any quintessential Maine experiences not ...

At Labadie’s Bakery, the 100-year-old shop in downtown Lewiston, cakes for the whoopie pies start going in the oven around midnight. At 3 in the morning, the person known as the filler arrives, ...

The University of Maine at Augusta invites students from all stages of life to pursue a career-focused education online or in ...

The Saco illustrator's visceral, cartoonish art and wry videos have attracted 750,000 social-media followers and celebrity ...

A photo of Karlin at about age 10, with a camera she still has. Karlin studied photography in high school and at New York’s Pratt Institute, where she set up a darkroom in her dormitory closet.After ...

Sears Island is a wooded, egg-shaped piece of land in Penobscot Bay, about the size of New York City’s Central Park. Connected to the mainland via causeway, the island could provide commercial access ...

One morning this past spring, after commercial elver fishermen had met their quotas and elver buyers had closed up shop for the season, two fyke nets showed up where the Megunticook River empties into ...

The Houlton Band of Maliseets’ administrative headquarters, built to resemble a log cabin, sits on a small tract of tribal land in Aroostook County, just north of where I-95 intersects the Canadian ...

A woman in so exclusive a gentlemen’s club as the United States Senate is bound to stand out. She naturally attracts more attention than 99 men. A visitor to the Senate Chamber looks around and says: ...

It was the middle of October and Cobbosseecontee Lake was perfectly still, a mirror reflecting a sky thick with billowing clouds. Em Russell was standing on the stern of a little motorboat, wearing ...