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Birds often found in tropical places like the Caribbean and Florida are appearing in Maine. Over the past week, people from Gray, outside Portland to the Acadia region have reported what scientists have identified as purple gallinules. “If you see photos of them, they’ve got these incredibly long toes,” said Doug Hitchcox, a naturalist at Maine Audubon. How did...

Some birds seem to have gotten lost, making their way to Maine instead of the tropics.

A Maine couple is getting ready to start selling an invention that they dreamed up out of pandemic necessity. Over the past four months, Jocelyn Olsen and Colin Greig have developed a battery-powered, heated seat cushion and created their own company to sell them. Their business is named Hüga, which is a spin on the Danish word “hygge” which...

A couple in Portland, Maine, thinks they invented the answer to comfortable outdoor dining during the winter: heated seat cushions.

A short argument between members of a construction crew ended when one man fatally punched the other in Portland, Maine, in November. Robert Clarke of Braintree, Massachusetts, is now facing a charge of manslaughter in the death of 44-year-old Elliott Fama, of Wilmington, Massachusetts. Police say Clarke and Fama traveled to Portland together with two other coworkers for a job….

Portland, Maine, is the only place in New England on a new list of top cities for beer drinkers in the United States. Every year, financial planning website SmartAsset ranks the best cities for beer drinkers using a numerical index based on factors like the number of breweries in a city per 100,000 residents and the average price of a…

Portland, Maine, is New England’s lone entry on a new list of top beer cities in the U.S.

Cindy Soule’s fourth-graders in Maine’s largest city have studied pollination in a community garden. They solved an erosion problem that was damaging trees. They learned about bear scat.

For business owners and employees in Portland, Maine, especially in the city’s renowned restaurant industry, news from Washington has given hope of a bit more financial certainty. With congressional leaders reaching a bipartisan agreement on a new $900 billion round of coronavirus relief funding, people in Portland’s business community expect more restaurants, bars and other establishments will be able...

For many in Portland, Maine, especially the people in the restaurant industry, the federal COVID relief package agreement offers hope for more certainty — and more eateries surviving into the next year.

In southern Maine, there have been traffic messes, schools closed and a lot of broken windshield wipers in the wake of a snowstorm that left two feet or more in some towns. By Thursday morning, Portland had closed its schools, Biddeford had shut down its city hall, courts in Lewiston were closed and the Maine Emergency Management Agency had advised…

Maine was pummeled with snow, bringing whiteout conditions and school closings.

People in Portland, Maine’s West End neighborhood are being urged by local police to watch out for a man who’s allegedly attacked one woman and approached several others in what’s become a pattern. There have been seven reports of a man in a dark car with a Texas license plate pulling over near women on the streets and trying...

Women are being urged to be vigilant in Portland, Maine, following an Oct. 25 assault and then numerous reports of a suspicious man.

A solar flare ejected from the sun on Monday, and since then it’s become clear that what’s called a coronal mass ejection, or a large cloud of energetic particles, was also released and is headed for earth. This coronal mass ejection, or CME, is predicted to arrive later on Wednesday and will initiate what’s called a “geomagnetic storm” —...

Police are investigating a series of attacks on marijuana delivery drivers in Portland, Maine, the latest of which took place Tuesday night. Two people held a medical marijuana delivery driver at gunpoint with semi-automatic handguns around 8:30 p.m. at the Wellesley Estates apartments on Forest Ave., according to Portland Police Lt. Robert Martin. When the driver said he did not…

A series of attacks on marijuana delivery drivers in Portland, Maine, is under investigation by police.

A Maine group formed this year is helping keep a lot of different people from going hungry this Thanksgiving. Cooking for Community, which connects donations with restaurant kitchens to help feed people in need did not take a day off. Instead, Ian Malin, one of the people who spearheaded the project, was able to calculate a way to give 150…

During a time where both restaurants and residents could use a little help, this Maine nonprofit got creative.

The weekend after Thanksgiving is often a time when there’s a bump in foot traffic on Exchange Street in Portland, Maine. Between Black Friday and shoppers seeking out small businesses for gifts, there is usually a festive atmosphere in the Old Port.  This year, the decorations, Black Friday markdowns and smiles were all still out though perhaps under face...