Outlet stores began proliferating in these coastal communities in the 1980s. Over the years, the relationship between residents and the outlets has sometimes been contentious, but by and large, townspeople have come to accept and even embrace the retail facets of their home towns.

Two Maine organizations dedicated to preserving the past have collaborated to present documentary films in a festival this fall.

Town Manager Andrew Dorr said John Bubier, a retired municipal manager who lives in Yarmouth, will work for the town for 20 to 25 hours per week. He is expected to be on-island one day a week, more often when the work requires.

You won’t hear too many Mainers complain about this summer’s weather. It’s been hot, sunny and dry.

There’s been a lot of buzz about the possibility that Acadia will welcome more than three million visitors in 2016, its centennial year—which would be a leap of 20 percent from just two years ago, and an all-time record for the park. This may well be a temporary spike...

Folks with a handful of write-in votes have been nudged into office.

Cobscook Bay State Park draws Mainers and others year after year, offering the quiet seclusion of softwood forest with easy access to one of the most dynamic bodies of water in Maine.

This is the second of a three-part series recollecting the look and feel of Portland in the 1960s, '70s and '80s by a Maine writer who spent his youth there.

In the 1970s, Portland grew up.

Out of my sight on the west side of the island, truly heroic efforts by dozens of area firemen, the Coast Guard and state forest rangers had achieved what had seemed impossible.