Shelters are seeing a surge in older men with age-related illnesses, a trend that could have implications for how we shape public policy.

Seven couples take out licenses on Saturday in Brunswick.

One option is a buffer zone that would address complaints but still protect the rights of anti-abortion activists, who plan to expand the demonstrations next year.

The chambered nautilus, a prehistoric mollusk whose shell is a nearly perfect spiral, is being hunted to extinction because of its beauty. While the world has yet to pay much attention to the issue, two boys in Maine have emerged among the loudest voices urging protection for the species. Josiah Utsch, 12, of Cape Elizabeth […]

After nearly two months, Amtrak’s Downeaster passenger service to Freeport and Brunswick is more popular than the rail authority had projected.

Neighbors in Portland have worked for six months to raise the money to preserve the 13-acre city woodland.