On June 26, Ellsworth City Council Chairman Marc Blanchette backed up his plug-in hybrid electric car to the city’s first publically available Level 2 electric vehicle charging station, located under a shady copse at Merrill Park on Water Street.

Compared to other animals, salmon are second only to chicken in their efficiency of converting food to protein and calories.

This year’s census of alewives migrating upstream has been at recent highs, with 250,000 “river herring” counted this year...

A chance encounter with a Prince Edward Island lobsterman at the gathering led to a trip to the Canadian island province for two high school students...

By Tom Walsh                                 

If you don’t know much—or even anything at all—about Rachel Carson, here’s your chance.

By Susie Arnold, Jessica Gribbon Joyce and Roger Stephenson

He spoke of the need to relocate his island nation within 50-100 years due to sea level rise.

Damariscotta is moving forward with projects aimed at improving its waterfront. The work comes despite the Jan. 4 “king tide,” the highest tide of the year, and the associated storm surge which flooded a municipal parking lot and...

A reservation system for visiting Acadia National Park is among the top proposals in the National Park Service’s draft transportation plan, released April 26.