Maine's largest city has turned down a proposal that would have allowed homeless encampments through the coming winter. The Portland City Council rejected the proposal by a vote of 3-6 early Tuesday ...

Portland, Maine's largest city, is seeing an influx of asylum seekers and struggling to find places to house all of them. Portland is currently giving overnight shelter to about 1,149 people, Kristen ...

A Maine city’s proposal to turn private homes and churches into migrant shelters is a symptom of the state’s larger homeless epidemic, as towns grapple with the result of “sanctuary” policies from ...

President Joe Biden speaks at Just-In-Time Recreation Friday, Nov. 3, 2023, in Lewiston, Maine, about the mass shooting last week. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) LEWISTON, Maine (AP) — President Joe Biden and ...

Maine's largest city is seeking donations to help mitigate the migrant surge after it reopened its historic basketball arena, the Portland Exposition Building, to house hundreds of asylum seekers. But ...

LEWISTON, Maine, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Residents of Lewiston, a hard-bitten former mill town in central Maine, struggled on Thursday with a new reality: the scourge of American mass shootings had arrived ...

Watch out, Waterville, now it’s Bangor’s turn for the international spotlight. Less than a month after Travel & Leisure magazine highlighted Waterville as a “big college town rich in arts programming, ...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A woman who was sworn in Monday as a city council member in Bangor, Maine, served time in prison for manslaughter. The election of Angela Walker sparked outrage on conservative ...

Cloutier, 41, now serves as Scarborough’s town assessor and director of special projects. He is scheduled to begin his new ...