A $1.8 million gift from the Harold Alfond Foundation tops off the funding needed to complete a $5.8 million expansion of the Downeast Institute for Applied Marine Research and Education.

The undersea cable project is estimated to cost $2 billion and is expected to be in service by December 2022.

A piece of hardware smaller than a fist is all that stands between that beautiful sailboat, perhaps costing a couple of hundred thousand dollars, and devastating damage from a collision with the rocky shore.

Those who own houses they don’t occupy and then rent by the week or month make a lot of money…

The Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries (MCCF) has named Paul Anderson as its new executive director. Anderson will begin working at the Stonington nonprofit in September and will fully assume executive director duties Jan. 1.

This is a community landmark, built in 1793 by Ignatius Haskell as a private home.

These days, instead of taking the mail boat to Little Cranberry, Patrick’s wife Tasya rides the ferry each day to her job in Manhattan.

In Maine, April is a flirt, flashing a warm, beckoning smile one day, and spitting snow the next.

The Maine Office of Tourism reports that visitation has grown by an average of 6 percent in the last five years.