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In Stonington, Maine, the once-thriving lobster industry is facing a crisis as economic pressures, housing shortages, and climate change threaten the town’s way of life.

On April 12, 1934, Mount Washington was slammed by winds that set a jaw-dropping world record. Nearly 90 years later, one writer ventures to the summit to discover what that might have felt like.

On the eve of retirement, editor Mel Allen looks back on his own long stretch of Yankee’s 90-year history.

In sharing his day-to-day life on the ocean, Maine lobsterman turned TikTok star Jacob Knowles is pulling in followers by the boatload.

In praise of electrifying the senses with an icy ocean dip.

With over 35,000 participants since its founding in 2004, The Telling Room in Portland, Maine, helps young people share their stories through writing.

Yankee’s senior photo editor looks back at some of the most memorable images from the past year.

If one day scallops become Maine’s most prized seafood, history may point to a fateful trip to the Old World.

It may likely be the New England tradition of privacy that draws retired intelligence officers to Camden, Maine.

Putting a homegrown Vermont company on the road to fame? This guy was cut out for it.

A family trip leads back to the crossroads of past and future.

Wild animals need to be left alone—but in the small, densely populated state of Connecticut, that’s an increasingly tall order.