Portland

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.

Mainers are scraping their way out of a messy day of snow, sleet and freezing rain. State offices were closed on Tuesday and some COVID-19 vaccine clinics canceled or delayed appointments. Communities in southern Maine got anywhere from an eighth of an inch to a third of an inch of ice from freezing rain recorded in Portland. Officials in Sanford…

Even though Valentine’s Day is now behind us, evidence of it can still be found all over Portland, Maine.  The annual “Valentine Bandit” hit the city again this year.  For decades, visitors and Portlanders have woken up to heart banners, posters and flags on buildings, balconies, in windows and hanging off Fort Gorges in the middle of Casco Bay. ...

This year, the hearts from the ‘Valentine Bandit’ took on an extra message as a symbol of hope and community amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

An impromptu race, known as the Stumptown Birkebeiner or “Berkie,” had locals strapping on their skis and hitting the streets for the most Portland way to spend a snow day.

A Maine man arrested by the FBI in connection with the Jan. 6 Capiitol riot is also a person of interest in the case of a suspicious package in Portland.

Portland, Oregon, Mayor Ted Wheeler pepper-sprayed a man who confronted and videotaped him and a former mayor as they left a restaurant Sunday evening.

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...

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 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. Then came a fresh layer of snow and temperatures that hovered around freezing — but her students were unfazed. Bundled up and masked, they scooted outside with their belongings in buckets....

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…

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” —...

Meteorologist Matt Noyes gives an update on the possibility of seeing the Northern Lights in New England on Thursday.

Today: Clouds with light snow showers. Highs in the 30s. Wednesday Night: Flurries, sprinkles and patchy black ice. Lows around 30. Thursday: Breezy, bright, not as cool. Highs in the 40s.