With restaurants and bars closed due to the coronavirus pandemic, some in Portland, Maine, are finding creative ways to deliver take out to their customers.

The race is on to prevent the novel coronavirus from spreading further within the Portland, Maine, homeless community. Officials from the city, the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention and Maine Department of Health and Human Services are trying to separate and house roughly 600 healthy, symptomatic and exposed people in its homeless population after a Massachusetts woman and…

Officials in Maine are trying to prevent the novel coronavirus from further spreading among the homeless population in Portland.

Maine’s largest city is taking new steps to combat coronavirus. As of 5 p.m. Wednesday, Portland is under a five-day “stay-at-home” order. All non-essential businesses in the city must close or begin remote operations to prevent more COVID-19 cases in southern Maine. In addition, the text of the order reads, “all individuals currently living within the City of Portland...

All non-essential businesses in Portland, Maine, will have to close or begin remote operations.

In a sign that life across New England is turned upside-down, Maine cities like Portland and Bangor were quiet on St. Patrick’s Day Tuesday with curfews in place to prevent celebrations from spreading COVID-19.

A coronavirus-mitigating curfew in Portland, Maine, upended the city’s usual St. Patrick’s Day festivities.

As Maine’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced a second coronavirus case, the state’s senior U.S. senator, Susan Collins, said she was dissatisfied with how the federal government has handled the outbreak.

A well-known Maine restaurant open for almost two decades will shut its doors in what owners say “wasn’t an easy decision” and what industry representatives say could be part of a larger trend. This week, Steve and Michelle Corry announced they would close their first restaurant, Five Fifty-Five, which has been at its Congress Street location in Portland for 17…

A well-known restaurant in Portland, Maine, is closing its doors this week. The restaurant’s owners said the decision was not an easy one.

Two years ago, a proposal for a large cold storage facility on the western waterfront of Portland, Maine, caused a lot of concern for people living nearby. That project, a proposal by Atlanta-headquartered Americold, ended after that company backed out of a $30 million plan it had been working on for two and a half years. The plan involved a…

Two years ago, a proposal for a big cold storage facility in Portland caused concern from many nearby. The project was eventually stopped, but construction has been revived.

A Maine legislative committee has approved a proposal designed to increase access to services for intellectually disabled adults in the state. The proposal concerns the waiting lists for two programs called Section 21 and Section 29 that provide the services. Democratic Sen. Rebecca Millett of Portland says about 2,000 Maine residents “suffer while waiting to receive critical services through” the…

From “foster failure” to adoption success story, one family in Maine can’t imagine its home without its furry friend. Last summer, Janice Ribeiro and her son, Sam, started feeling like they were ready to have a dog again. Their previous pet had passed away, and they wanted to ease back in to pet ownership. They decided to be a foster...

When Dese’Rae Stage interviews survivors of suicide attempts for a website she created, she asks herself a question news reporters may not always consider: How much did it hurt? A survivor herself, she wants to be sure that readers of her website “Live Through This” come away with a real picture of suicide — no romance, no facile explanations and...

Carnaval Maine, a first of its kind 3-day festival, kicked off Thursday in Portland.

A Maine native is donating $100 million to Northeastern University to establish a graduate school and research center in Portland in hopes of transforming the city into a technology hub and sparking economic growth, officials said Monday. The Roux Institute, which will open in the spring, bears the name of donor David Roux, who grew up in Lewiston, Maine, and…

A fishing vessel found two people after a call for help to the U.S. Coast Guard Thursday afternoon off the coast of Maine, the agency said. The individuals were unresponsive when they were recovered in the water, Coast Guard officials said. They were being transported back to shore for treatment — it wasn’t clear what condition they were in....

Three members of Congress have introduced a proposal to try to cut down on food waste in U.S. schools.

Maine’s U.S. senators say two organizations in the state have been awarded more than $2.3 million to expand skill-building programs for young people. The money is from the U.S. Department of Labor and is going to LearningWorks in Portland and Goodwill Industries of Northern New England in Gorham. Republican Sen. Susan Collins and independent Sen. Angus King say it’s...