WELLS, Maine — A judge has whittled down a wide-ranging lawsuit against intertidal beach property owners to a single question. What exactly is the scope of the public’s right to access such land? With ...

On a balmy Friday morning in mid-July, a research team of five from Bates scrambled across the slippery rocks of Cape Neddick, searching the rockweed-coated landscape for the shiny, dark, ...

Apr. 21—A Cumberland County Superior Court justice has affirmed that the land between the high and low tide marks on Maine beaches belongs to private property owners, not the state, but he did not ...

WELLS, Maine — Advocates for public beaches are feeling bolstered by their discovery the owners of intertidal properties in Wells are not paying taxes on the land they've prevented people from ...