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Sea kayak rentals and tours are available at Portland Paddle.

The school board in Portland has voted to remove school resource police officers from the city’s high schools amid protests nationwide and in Maine calling for racial justice and an end to police brutality. The Portland Board of Education voted 7-2 in favor of the proposal after a seven hour meeting. Superintendent Xavier Botana recommended that the district end...

After a photo went viral on social media over the weekend showing a crowd of young people without wearing masks amid the coronavirus pandemic, city officials in Portland, Maine, are ramping up oversight of bars and restaurants. The viral photo taken in Old Port circulated online early Saturday morning after getting reposted by business owners and city officials upset at…

A Maine city is ramping up oversight of bars and restaurants after a photo went viral showing a crowd of young people without wearing masks amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Starting Wednesday, people in southern Maine were finally able to sit indoors at restaurants again, but among restaurant owners and customers in Portland, opinions on indoor dining are mixed. Andrew Garry, a co-owner of Highroller Lobster Company on Exchange Street, said he and his partners were waiting to open up the restaurant’s interior, instead planning to maximize a patio...

Restaurants in Maine are now allowed to open their dining rooms to customers, as coronavirus restrictions lift. But are diners and waitstaffs ready?

The Portland Sea Dogs ditched the baseball team’s ice cream supplier over a racist comment.  Online criticism was swift after Shain’s of Maine owner Jeff Shain was accused of using a racial slur and asking a black employee why white people couldn’t use the word. The employee later confronted him over the exchange and quit her job. The Portland...

Portland Public Schools, Oregon’s largest school district, will discontinue its use of Portland Police Bureau school resource officers and joins a handful of other urban districts from Minneapolis to Denver that are rethinking school police officers amid the outrage over the death of George Floyd.

Hundreds of demonstrators were out for a fourth consecutive evening in Portland, delivering speeches and waving signs Wednesday evening to protest police brutality against African Americans. The peaceful protest that swelled to more than 1,000 outside Portland City Hall followed two nights of demonstrations in which more than 30 people were arrested. Hamdia Ahmed, one of the organizers, told the…

A peaceful protest in Portland, Maine over the death of George Floyd descended into chaos on Monday night, with officers firing pepper spray in an attempt to disperse large crowds. Multiple businesses were damaged and 23 people were arrested, police said, after the protest began along Commercial Street around 7 p.m. “As I’ve said before, the City of Portland and…

A coronavirus outbreak at a Tyson food plant in Portland, Maine, has worsened, causing it to shut down temporarily. After an initial report of eight confirmed cases last week, the number of confirmed cases jumped on Wednesday to 51 employees. Over the weekend, the facility, which makes specialty frozen chicken products, was idled for a deep cleaning. Dr. Nirav Shah,…

A Tyson chicken plant in Portland, Maine, is idling after the number of workers who tested positive for the coronavirus jumped from eight into the dozens.

At least eight employees of a Tyson food processing plant in Portland, Maine, have tested positive for the new coronavirus, an outbreak that’s brought the attention of the state’s health officials. The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention announced the cases at agency Director Dr. Nirav Shah’s daily press briefing Wednesday. “Each and every one one of those...

A coronavirus outbreak hit a Tyson meat processing plant in Portland that has hundreds of employees.

A spat between small businesses and the city of Portland, Maine, over the city’s response to COVID-19 has been resolved after a group of shop owners called for change. Last Tuesday, the city released an FAQ sheet for businesses explaining guidelines for operation during the virus outbreak. Among them were rules, interpreted by non-essential businesses like book or jewelry...

A spat between small businesses and the city of Portland, Maine, over COVID-19 regulations has been resolved.

A new organization has formed in Maine to help restaurant workers, food producers, the elderly and anyone else with food insecurity issues due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Cooking for Community started this week in Portland. “There are thousands, if not tens of thousands who are wondering where their next meal is going to come from,” said Ellie Linen Low, an…

A group has formed in Maine to help those struggling with food insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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…