Last year’s first-ever fatal shark attack jolted Mainers into acknowledging that great whites regularly swim off the state’s shores—and that there’s plenty about them we don’t know.

How a self-taught linguist came to own an indigenous language.

In her pandemic summer, a college student retreated to a cabin on an island, and a job on a lobster boat.

The story behind an Instagram sensation is the story of a changing coastal Maine.

Can a December marathon in Northern Maine, organized by an eccentric long-distance runner, make a difference to a former mill town?

When he was 2, Strider was severely beaten by his mother’s boyfriend. Today, at 6, Strider lives with his grandparents in rural Maine, in and out of poverty, trying to make it.

Is all water created equal? It depends on who you believe.

A trip to a lobster festival leads to an examination of the culinary and ethical dimensions of cooking a live, possibly sentient, creature.

On Jonathan Richman and his roots in small-town Maine.

Maine adopted Kenyan runner Moninda Marube as a symbol of human trafficking’s invisible casualties. But a close look at his case raises hard questions — and illustrates the challenge of investigating and prosecuting trafficking crimes.

The 66-year-old became lost while hiking the Appalachian Trail. She survived for at least 16 days before crawling into her sleeping bag one last time, her journal sealed in a waterproof bag.

Murky origins. Feuding chefs. How the lobster roll went national.

Bringing down a cocaine empire in 1980s rural Maine.

Inside a family of novelists.

A profile of Maine’s two U.S. senators, Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins.