Final rules are in place for the Maine Department of Labor’s paid family and medical leave program, a major endeavor ...

High school students from the island have diverse outcomes post-graduation. One, Southwest Harbor local Avonlea Brown, speaks ...

Fourth and fifth graders at Mount Desert Elementary School (MDES) are working to reduce single-use plastic at the school, ...

TREMONT — Representatives from MDI Biological Laboratory will be hosting an informational meeting about PFAS contamination in ...

Good news from the Maine Department of Public Safety: Maine’s overall crime rate, including violent crime, was down in 2023 ...

Every year the Islander's founding editor, Earl Brechlin, writes a holiday story intended to be read on Christmas Eve. It is ...

A downtown breakfast institution that announced its move in October after being unable to secure a continued lease in its ...

Congratulations go to nine-year-old Skyler Ehrlich of Bar Harbor, who has taken third place in the 2023-2024 National Poetry ...

Visit the Southwest Harbor Public Library to view an exhibition of quilts by the MDI Island Quilters from Jan. 7-20. The ...

Experience “Reef Point,” the debut play reading by local playwright Carolyn Gage, at the Southwest Harbor Public Library on ...

Sassafrass Cafe hosted a “Sip & Thrift” pop-up brunch, on Dec. 22, offering an array of entrees featuring sourdough waffles ...

In its last meet before the Christmas holiday, the Mount Desert Island girls' swimming and diving put together a dominating ...