Carolann Ouellette, director of the Maine Office of Tourism, said some 33 million people visited Maine in 2015, and paid accommodations were up 8 percent over 2014.

Taxable restaurant and lodging sales for the eight coastal counties totaled more than $2.3 billion in 2015.

When a community provides things to do, people are more likely to stay, relocate or return to that place.

DOT is offering two new design concepts. A bypass is not an option in either proposal.

A booming lobster resource, combined with a trend toward larger boats with more horsepower and the latest advances in navigational electronics, has an increasing number of Maine’s lobster fishermen heading further offshore.

The Harbor Watch Inn on Swan’s Island has partnered with Tesla Motors and installed a charging station for electric cars.

On the map of the Penobscot watershed, which was used throughout the venue that hosted Penobscot Watershed Conference on April 9, the image looms even larger. Rain falling near both the Quebec and the New Brunswick borders could end up in the river and bay. Almost all of the I-95 corridor north of Bangor lies within the watershed.

Nearly 90 percent of the seafood consumed in America is imported, half of which is farmed.

As with timber and granite, we have learned that global connections based on a single commodity are tenuous at best…