The Trump administration is reportedly taking steps to further restrict employment authorization for certain groups of immigrants.

The Public Utilities Commission selected five projects to produce power through a multistate competitive bidding process.

Residents filled the council chamber Tuesday night and submitted more than 100 emails for public comment. Many raised concerns over the environmental and economic impact of similar data centers across the country.

The Maine Public Utilities Commission made significant changes to a program that could add more than 20,000 participants.

Portland Mayor Mark Dion also called for changes to the city's needle exchange program. And he urged city officials to bring school resource officers back to Portland public schools.

Last week, a group of Maine lobstermen worked out a plan for how they would respond to an aggregation of endangered North Atlantic right whales in federal waters. In January 2025, an unusually large number of whales surprised fishermen and scientists when they showed up in a part of the southern Gulf of Maine known as Jeffrey's Ledge.

A public hearing Friday evening showed Waldo County Commissioners that residents are not willing to accept the increase in their taxes.

The $300 million project would be built in two phases. City officials say the site is ideal for tech development, but similar data centers have been steeped in controversy over environmental concerns.

Fishermen were allowed to harvest up to 58,400 pounds of northern shrimp during a limited-run pilot last winter. But they caught just 70 individual shrimp, totaling less than three pounds.

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