1. LifeFlight of Maine is not just a general name for medical-transport helicopters. News reports of accidents or other emergencies in Maine will often mention LifeFlight by name, but people may not ...

The harbor steamed like a pot of soup. Spires and drifts of mist whirled across the silver foil of the sea, and the sky was a clear, hard blue. The vapor had turned from pink to gold in the rising sun ...

For 172 years, Hancock Lumber has been carefully cultivating eastern white pine, ensuring that Maine’s signature resource remains vibrant for future generations. Forget lobster — no Maine natural ...

At Labadie’s Bakery, the 100-year-old shop in downtown Lewiston, cakes for the whoopie pies start going in the oven around midnight. At 3 in the morning, the person known as the filler arrives, ...

Fifty years ago, Kathleen Sullivan had an epiphany on Michigan Avenue in Chicago. “I thought, if I don’t get out of here, I will want every fur coat and pair of shoes that I see.” Soon after, Sullivan ...

The trick to growing ginger in Maine, Dave Allen says, is to convince the ginger that it’s not in Maine at all. He and his partner, Erica Emery, own Rustic Roots Farm, in Farmington, and for the past ...

With no backcountry to speak of, Acadia is one of the country’s few dog-friendly national parks: all the carriage roads, most trails, and all the campgrounds (except on Isle au Haut) welcome leashed ...

And bring joy to owner Betsy Atkins, who says walking her property each morning is "the happiest part of my day." Scores of Colorful Glass Orbs Lend Continuity to This Harpswell Garden For 82 years, ...

Editor in chief Brian Kevin likes the woodsy vibe of this midcoast hamlet. All the perks of the Camden Hills (and, when my kids get older, the top-rated Camden Hills Regional High School), with way ...

On a barnwood shelf in Chaké and Peyton Higgison’s Brunswick living room, a blackened metal horse figurine and candlestick mingle with an ivory bracelet, scorched to the point that it resembles ...

It all started, Usha Beaudoin says, with a pretzel. In the summer of 2020, the early months of the pandemic, she was on Matinicus Island, where her mother’s family goes back nine generations, with her ...

In the span of a few months, a series of fierce storms reshaped the Maine landscape, battered beloved landmarks, and called waterfront communities’ futures into question in frightening fashion. While ...