Dustin Wlodkowski

Sea kayak rentals and tours are available at Portland Paddle.

Freeport, Maine is well-known as a summer shopping destination with its outlets and other stores. But is it still a dominant retail hub on Black Friday, as more and more people choose to buy online? Anecdotal and numerical evidence shows Freeport has taken an overall retail hit from the Internet. Freeport retail dollars dipped 20-percent or $15,000,000 between 2018 and...

Anecdotal and numerical evidence shows Freeport has tkaen an overall retail hit from the Internet.

There’s a lot in a name, at least when it comes something like college, in which you might invest years of your life and thousands of dollars. That’s why there is a clash brewing in Maine over what to call one of the state’s more popular public universities. Monday, the University of Maine System Board of Trustees voted 10-2 to...

The University of Southern Maine is moving to change its name to the University of Maine at Portland.

A New England senator was part of a group of eight that joined President Donald Trump for a Thursday lunch at the White House. The group of Republican senators included former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, currently a senator from Utah, Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky and others.

A Maine man is awaiting a jury’s verdict in his murder retrial.

No charges are expected after a shooting at a homeless shelter in Brunswick, Maine, left one man dead and sent another to the hospital. Just after 10:20 p.m. Monday, multiple witnesses heard a series of gunshots come from an apartment at Tedford Housing on Federal Street.

An overnight shooting at a homeless shelter left one man dead in Maine.

Maine’s largest city is considering a ban on its employees using facial recognition technology. Monday night, Portland’s city council passed a motion to postpone a vote whether or not to prohibit city agencies from using it or data gathered by third parties using facial recognition.

City officials in Portland, Maine, are considering a ban on the use of facial recognition technology.

A Maine museum is offering thousands of dollars in prize money in an “out of this world” contest. Anyone who finds a hefty piece of meteorite from a meteor seen over Missouri this week could get $25,000 from the Maine Mineral and Gem Museum.

You could get thousands of dollars for finding a piece of meteorite from a meteor seen over Missouri.

The family of Michael Bell, the Maine fire captain killed in a September propane explosion in Farmington, has hired a lawyer to represent them after the incident. This week, attorney Steve Silin of Berman & Simmons, based in Lewiston, released a statement confirming that.

The family of a Maine fire captain killed in a propane explosion has hired an attorney.

As a sudden cold blast grips New England, one Maine city is reviving a tool to help its homeless. Officials in Bangor say they’re once again buying bus tickets to send people with nowhere to live out of the city so they don’t succumb to the cold.

With a stretch of cold weather, officials in Bangor are reviving a tool to help the homeless.

While maintenance continues on Maine’s Piscataqua River Bridge, the multi-year rehab has become more tangible for some drivers recently.
In June, the Maine and New Hampshire Departments of Transportation began a $53 million project that is the first of its kind performed on the bridge since it opened in 1972.

The multi-year rehab on Maine’s Piscataqua River Bridge is causing more inconvenience for commuters now that additional ramps and lanes have been closed.

Veterans in one Maine city are celebrating a reunion of sorts. A plaque that was missing for decades after it was stolen from a Saco park has been returned.