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 ...

American Cruise Lines is expanding its presence in Maine with their fleet of small, domestic ships scheduled to visit Bath, Boothbay Harbor, Belfast, Bucksport and Bangor in 2025.

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 ...

Ships will both make voyages from the city over the next two years, rekindling an industry that hasn't been here since 2011.

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 ...

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 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.

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 A "Yes" vote on Article 4 would have repealed the ...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, home to about 5,500 people, is a popular destination on New England/Canada cruises and serves as a gateway to Acadia National Park. In 2019, the town reported that about 250,000 cruise ...