For the 2024 season that runs from May 2 through Oct. 28, 105 cruise ships so far have scheduled stops in the Hancock County town — Maine’s largest cruise ship port of call.

The Norwegian Gem anchors in Bar Harbor, Maine, in September 2024. The ship, which visits Boston dozens of time a year, carries nearly 2,400 passengers and burns more than 50,000 gallons of fuel daily ...

U.S. District Court Judge Lance Walker has ruled that the Maine town of Bar Harbor has the right to limit how many cruise passengers visit. Walker ruled that Bar Harbor's new 1,000-passenger daily ...

Bar Harbor has seen political and legal challenges around cruise ship visitation in recent years, with several pending legal cases as the local conversation evolves. “The reductions in Bar ...

Residents in the Maine town of Bar Harbor will decide in November whether to affirm or repeal the 1,000-passenger daily limit on cruise passengers that they approved in a referendum two years ago.

BAR HARBOR, Maine (WABI) - The future is hazy for some Bar Harbor businesses as they worry about the effects of cruise ship passenger limitations. One even plans to relocate out of the coastal ...

BAR HARBOR, Maine (WABI) - The future is hazy for some Bar Harbor businesses as they worry about the effects of cruise ship passenger limitations. One even plans to relocate out of the coastal ...

In a close decision, Bar Harbor residents voted to maintain the town's current limit of 1,000 cruise ship passengers that can come ashore per day. A "Yes" vote on Article 4 would have repealed the ...

Bar Harbor is one of Maine’s quintessential summer tourism towns, but a proposed ordinance is looking to decrease population size, specifically for those visiting on cruise ships.

When residents of Bar Harbor go to the polls next month, they'll be asked to approve a new ordinance that would raise the limit on cruise ship visitors, and replace the existing cap of 1,000 ...

A cruise ship employee was burned in a generator fire that broke out following an explosion on board early Wednesday morning, officials said. The ship — American Queen Voyages' Ocean Navigator ...