Waiting for a pandemic: Maine prepares for coronavirus
Although Maine by noon Tuesday had no confirmed or presumptive positive cases of the coronavirus disease that has swept across the planet, experts believe...
Portland School Board prepares to vote on body-camera policy
The Police Department and the Portland Public Schools are getting closer to an agreement on the use of body cameras by school resource officers...
Statehouse Report: Bills would enable local-option lodging tax
A local-option sales tax on meals and lodging has long been a legislative priority for Portland and other communities that, in their view, must...
Portland City Council approves financing $18.3M for capital improvements
The Portland City Council on Monday night approved issuing bonds to fund upcoming capital improvement projects.
Councilor Nick Mavodones, who chairs the Finance Committee, said...
Portland proposal links marijuana licenses to social justice goals
Portland city councilors will consider proposed rules for retail recreational marijuana shops that will include a complicated scoring matrix to decide who gets a...
Statehouse Report: Legislature weighs new funds for mental health services
The use of county jails to house the mentally ill in Maine has gone from being a perceived crisis to almost a fact of...
Portland’s school renovation vision shrinks as construction costs rise
In 2017, Portland voters approved borrowing $64 million for the expansive renovation of Longfellow, Lyseth, Presumpscot, and Reiche elementary schools.
But higher-than-expected construction costs...
Portland panel backs Baxter Woods leash law
Despite nearly an hour of pleas from dog owners to keep things as they are, the City Council's Sustainability and Transportation Committee advanced a...
Portland councilors maintain ‘status quo’ on public comment
Although he spoke only a handful of times during a four-hour meeting Feb. 19, Portland City Councilor Pious Ali summed up the will of...
News Analysis: Flanagan hopes to help CMP weather consumer confidence storm
The return of David Flanagan last week as executive chairman of Central Maine Power Co., which he last headed 20 years ago as chief...