Scientific understanding of ocean creatures and ecosystems lags behind that of animals and land ecosystems. That’s at least partly due to the difficulty of studying aquatic mammals...

Maine Maritime Academy students, officers and crew will depart Castine on Saturday, Jan. 2 at about 10:30 a.m. on the training ship State of Maine for a two-week training voyage to St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. The ship will carry 210 students and crew and is due to arrive on Jan. 8.

Michael Westphal’s vigorous physical conditioning made the bad news especially hard to believe. Nine years ago, at age 49, he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease.

The story that would become reporter Bob Cummings’ legacy didn’t set his world on fire when White Nichols walked into the Bath Times office in the early 1960s with a story tip. Nichols—a Wiscasset resident who had “drifted out of the habit of earning a living,” as Cummings would later describe it—worked a variety of odd jobs and covered a lot of ground doing so...

Richard Aroneau, along with his wife Kit Remsen Aroneau, launched Planet in Camden in 1991 and then opened the store in Rockland in 2004. The Rockland store is closing this fall, but not because its stock is out of vogue with children.

Not only was Steve arranging to get me to Vinalhaven on schedule, he was helping me find someone to fix my tire.

The effort to sustain our communities and their economic and civic life for future generations scored a significant victory recently on Deer Isle.

North Haven's newest health care practitioner will be able to compare the urban version of medicine with the isolated, rural version. Nurse practitioner and educator Lorraine Reiser is bringing her decades of experience to North Haven to the island medical clinic.

Islanders working on similar problems in isolation is almost always improved when islanders gather to compare notes. That was the idea behind a now-annual retreat for those who care for elderly islanders...