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 ...

BAR HARBOR, Maine (WABI) - Bar Harbor welcomed a boatload of visitors Thursday to kick off its cruise ship season. “We want everyone to know that Bar Harbor welcomes all,” APPLL President Kristi Bond ...

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. If ...

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 ...

A recent Mainebiz poll asked, Does your business benefit from the cruise ships? Around 295 readers responded. A relatively small percentage — 17% — said their business benefited directly from the ...

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 on ...

A group of Bar Harbor businesses have filed a lawsuit against the town that seeks to reverse a recently imposed limit on the number of passengers who can disembark from cruise ships. “The recent ...

BAR HARBOR, Maine (WABI) - Some major changes are coming to Bar Harbor’s tourist season. Voters there passed a citizens initiative that would limit the number of cruise ship passengers who can come ...

I was disappointed with Thomas Farragher’s commentary on the controversy over cruise ships in Bar Harbor, Maine (“Barred Harbor,” Page A1, Jan. 16). Nowhere was the environmental impact of large ...

Princess Cruises' Sky Princess sits behind Bar Island while in port in Frenchman Bay, Maine last month. (Ashley L. Conti for The Wall Street Journal) Residents in Bar Harbor, Maine, easily passed a ...

BAR HARBOR, Maine — Even in the dead of winter, when windswept sidewalks are deserted and there is ample elbow room at local restaurant tables, the breathtaking natural beauty of this vacation ...

There isn't a cloud in the sky on this early October day in Bar Harbor, and crowds are lining up at the pier to board one of the last tender boats of the day The boats are transporting passengers back ...