Maine authorities urge beach vigilance after multiple great white shark sightings near Bailey Island, implementing ...

Cory Hawkes, who had fished those waters his whole life without seeing a great white shark, was moving from offshore to inshore when he noticed something unusual.

A woman swimming off the coast of Maine on Monday died after being attacked by a great white shark, marking the first fatal shark attack ever recorded in the state.

Maine has never had a fatal shark attack. Why now? Despite Monday’s fatality, attacks on humans are rare and often accidental.

Authorities in Maine said Tuesday the shark that killed a woman in a rare attack off the state’s coast was a great white. The shark bite killed Julie Dimperio Holowach, 63, of New York City, ...

But before the fictional story of a killer shark terrorizing a sleepy beach town, there was the very real summer of 1916 at the Jersey Shore. Five shark attacks in less than two weeks that left four ...