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After a months-long debate, the Portland City Council decided that the museum’s neighboring building is no longer historically significant. The art museum owns the building at 142 Free Street and wants to demolish it to make room for an expansion.
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The sites include the former Great Northern Paper Company Wastewater Treatment Plant Lagoon in Millinocket and a former mill site and power plant in Westbrook.
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The growing start-up culture in Maine, and how entrepreneurship is fostered
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The federal government has set May 7, 2025, as the date when Americans will need special, enhanced driver's licenses or passports to fly or enter some federal buildings.
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The bill would ban children under 13 from creating accounts, and prohibit companies from feeding content using algorithms to children under 17.
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Two city boards had recommended that Portland keep a historic designation for the former Children's Museum on Free Street. The Portland Museum of Art owns the building and wants to demolish it to make room for a proposed expansion.
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The project will provide housing and 24-7 support services to residents, who have experienced chronic homelessness, or have struggled to stay in stable housing before.
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The airport says that it will fully close its runways from 8 a.m. Monday until 3 p.m. on Wednesday. Similar weekly closures will continue for the next two weeks, with no air service available during each shutdown.
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Just-In-Time Recreation reopened on Friday for the first time since the mass shootings on Oct. 25, 2023 that killed 18 people. Eight people were killed at the bowling alley.
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Maine has become the second state, after Virginia, to adopt a Mass Violence Care Fund. It's a $5 million endowment designed to provide ongoing assistance to mass casualty victims, survivors and their families.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture has told Republican U.S. Sen. Susan Collins of Maine that it will support keeping potatoes classified as a vegetable, instead of a grain.
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The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission agreed to keep the existing annual quota of nearly 10,000 pounds of baby eel, which was due to expire at the end of this year.