Portland

A woman was brutally attacked in the West End neighborhood of Portland, Maine, this week, leaving concern in the community. The woman was walking by herself on Gray Street and talking to her father on the phone around 9:30 p.m. Wednesday night when a man tapped her on the shoulder and punched her in the face, according to police. “She…

Police are investigating random attacks against lone woman in the city’s West End.

A submerged car, a busted snail-covered, a salt-eaten safe and a mystery were uncovered this week in Portland, Maine.

There are still many questions around this partially-buried vehicle found near a safe.

A program that was liked by many residents, visitors and business owners is coming back for another year in Portland, Maine, in an effort to help small businesses amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The city’s outdoor dining and retail program kicked off April 5 with the closure of several downtown streets. The popular program — which covers the entire city…

Portland, Maine, is bringing back a program many residents, visitors and business owners liked for another year. It allows restaurants and other businesses to use parklet spaces and space on shut down streets for eating, shopping and other activities.

A Maine man’s digital art gallery has become one of the leading online marketplaces for non-fungible tokens. NFTs are a digital art or object form, sort of like Bitcoin, getting headlines over the past few months for some eye-popping multi-million-dollar sales. Because NFTs are on what is perhaps the sharpest point of the cutting edges of finance and technology,...

A Maine man’s digital art gallery, which has raised more than $9 million, has become one of the leading online marketplaces for non-fungible tokens.

Thursday may have brought the largest single service announcement in the history of the Portland International Jetport, according to officials at the Maine airport. United Airlines announced a major seasonal expansion, revealing it would offer direct flights from Portland to six cities — Pittsburgh, Milwaukee, Indianapolis, and the Ohio cities of Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati. According to a press release…

A major airline expansion is underway in Maine ahead of the summer travel season.

There are five open spots to earn a free master’s degree from Northeastern University right now, and requirements to apply are fairly wide open. Roughly two weeks ago, the school’s Roux Institute, a tech-focused campus in Portland, and Tilson Technology Management, a technology infrastructure company headquartered in the city, posted applications for what is being advertised as “Tilson Roux...

Maine may soon have a new tallest building — at least if you exclude a few decorative spires and features. A new project called 200 Federal proposes redeveloping the site of a parking lot and small brick plaza at the corner of Temple Street and Federal Street in Portland’s Old Port into an 18-story apartment high-rise. If built as planned,…

We take a closer look at the debate over what would be the tallest building in Maine as well as attempts to build taller buildings in Boston.

An 18-story multimillion project called 200 Federal could be Maine’s new tallest building.

Police in Maine’s largest city say they have made an arrest after investigating a report of a racially motivated attack. Authorities in Portland said Tuesday they were searching for a man who allegedly harassed a woman and damaged her vehicle because she is of Asian descent. They said the attack happened on Monday afternoon. Police said the attacker told...

A local company in Portland, Maine creates a cannabis-infused beer.

Portland, Oregon, last year dissolved a special police unit designed to focus on gun violence during the national reckoning over racial injustice

A family stuck in “the wrong Portland” got to the right place after a Transportation Security Administration officer’s kind gesture, and now he’s being recognized for helping them out. Last November, Martin Rios, who is part of the TSA team at Portland International Airport in Oregon, was able to help a family who was having a hard time communicating...

A TSA agent is being recognized for helping a family who had a case of mistaken identity: they were in the wrong Portland.