WABIAcadia National Park to get Federal Funding to Improve AccessWABIBar Harbor – Maine's Acadia National Park is going to be getting $800,000 in federal funding to build an intermodal transportation center where visitors can park their cars and take a free...
In laboratory studies, scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center have developed a way to personalize chemotherapy drug selection for cancer patients by using cell lines created from their own tumors.
EASTPORT, Maine – Those who have been quietly but persistently matchmaking the cruise ship industry with the lesser-known charms of the Washington County seaside community of Eastport see downtown port activity in 2012 as something of a preview of coming...
Fourteen teachers have been nominated to be the 2014 Maine Teacher of the Year. Education Commissioner Stephen Bowen says the teachers come from schools in Augusta, Bar Harbor, Biddeford, Farmingdale, Hampden, Hartland, Hiram, Milbridge, Milo, Portland, Saco, Sanford,...
Beverly Haskell takes everyday objects – plates and slates, an old wood ironing board, boxes and cutting boards – and turns them into charming works of art.
The base of the granite memorial, made by Maine craftspeople and intended for Newtown, is the creation of Adam Meyer of Maine Coast Creations in Cutler.
The Nova Scotia International Ferry Partnership is a group of private business people who were asked by municipal leaders to help re-establish ferry service between Nova Scotia and the U.S. We agreed, with the provision we would base any support for the service on...
Physical work to create hiking trails, multi-use trails for nonmotorized vehicles, and a campground on land next to the Schoodic portion of Acadia National Park could begin sometime this year if a land management firm gets the necessary approvals, according to an...
A landscape architect from Bar Harbor is developing designs for about $150,000 worth of improvements to the former Howland tannery site, Town Manager Tracey Hutton says.
Maine’s ports are expected to welcome 258,661 cruise ship passengers in 2013, a 17 percent increase from the number of passengers visiting in 2012, according to new estimates from CruiseMaine.