The scrappy eco-insulation startup TimberHP is taking a big swing by bringing Madison's shuttered paper mill back online. Can a novel pulp product sow the seeds of a homegrown green-manufacturing success story?
Our Towns
Pontoon flotillas! Dance parties! Disco-themed booze cruises! The little town of Naples is one big party all season long.
The swordfishing captain likes to hike to the cove in Surry’s Morgan Bay at low tide to go clamming.
On Little Cranberry Island, and in Maine’s other island and coastal communities, the nonprofit helps families diversify their income — and a secure fishing future.
When the stakes couldn’t be higher, a new network of high-tech weather cams helps air-ambulance crews make critical decisions.
A landspout causes damage in Denmark, Portland's lampposts get snarky new banners, and more.
Since an unexpected cable failure left Goat Island without electricity, its undaunted keepers are looking for ways to take the power back.
The new president of the Island Institute on her to return to Chebeague Island.
When a young, hard-charging restaurateur bucked community expectations, tempers on Vinalhaven flared.
On Swan's Island, the proprietors and patrons of Daint’s Place are having more fun than should be legal anywhere.
More than a century after hiring its first mobile nurse, the program is still a picture of health.
The author and screenwriter got his start as a reader at the South Portland Public Library.