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.

An amateur seed bank has rescued countless rare varieties, but now it may be running out of time.

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?

Pat Gallant-Charette is 68. She’s on a quest to beat marathon swimming’s globe-spanning challenge.

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.

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

Bringing down a cocaine empire in 1980s rural Maine.