On the state Department of Agriculture, Conservation & Forestry website, an interactive map tracks every bit of conserved land across all of Maine. Check only the box for federally protected lands, ...

Babe is a muscular white draft horse weighing in at 1,700 pounds, and he’s a very good boy. He waits, untethered, while his owner, Scott Stevens, disappears around a brushy curve in a skid road, ...

There have always been at least a few good spots around Bethel to warm up with a meal and a drink after a day on Sunday River’s ski slopes. For anyone who hasn’t spent time in town the past few years, ...

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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 ...

Lynn Williams grew up in the world of hospitality. As the daughter of innkeepers — her parents ran Camden’s Birchwood Motel for 40 years — she met travelers from all over, while honing her own hosting ...

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 ...

More than 30 years later, the biologist who spearheaded the effort reflects on the challenges — and what might have been. “IN OCTOBER 1986, an ad hoc group invited me to the Augusta office of Glen ...

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 ...