Since 2022 local voters twice have supported referendums that effectively ban visits by ships that carry 1,000 or more ...

A popular stop on Canada/New England voyages from spring to fall (and particularly on fall foliage cruises) Bar Harbor, located on Mt. Desert Island, has many charms.

Tourism season is in full swing for the town of Bar Harbor; however, it's not all smooth sailing as many businesses are ...

American Cruise Lines, operators of small coastal and river cruise ships including American Glory, American Independence ...

Bar Harbor, Maine has fined a cruise port operator for violating strict cruise passenger limits. The town says it is imposing a $4 million fine on Goden Anchor LC which owns two cruise ship piers.

If the cruise lines were forced to steer past Bar Harbor, the complaint said, “it could take years to reestablish cruise line confidence in calling at the port of Bar Harbor.” The Bar Harbor ...

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.

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, a classic, picturesque Maine town that draws a great deal of tourists, is putting a moratorium on the number of visitors who arrive by cruise ships. Earlier this week, the Town Council ...

Voters in Bar Harbor, Maine, a tourism hot spot in the state known as Vacationland, are set to soon decide whether to turn back incoming waves of cruise passengers. If the ballot question passes ...