Irwin Gratz

Housing will be top of mind as hundreds of real estate and development professionals gather in Portland Thursday.

There's a picket line outside Bath Iron Works on Monday, as more than 600 members of the Bath Marine Draftsmen's Union are on strike after rejecting a company contract offer Saturday.

Two years ago this month, the shadow of a total solar eclipse passed right over Houlton. How the town prepared and the impact of the eclipse are subjects of a documentary film —"A Moment in the Sun."

A stretch of asphalt along Portland's waterfront will be turned into a park. The site, between Maine State Pier and the Ocean Gateway Passenger Ship

Central Maine Power filed Friday for a rate decrease. The utility says it will lower an average customer's bill by $4 a month beginning in July.

Camuso spent 11 years at Maine Audubon before going to work for the state.

The Maine Turnpike Authority expects about a million vehicles to use the highway this Memorial Day weekend. That would be a 0.5% increase over last year, which was a chilly and rainy holiday weekend.

In ranked-choice voting , voters see a ballot with the candidates listed, but instead of a single oval to fill in, there are as many ovals as there are candidates for that office — plus one for a write-in candidate.

The Democratic and Republican races for governor in Maine are both going to a ranked-choice runoff, as is the 2nd District Democratic primary.

The future of Portland transportation may lie in its past. The city's planning and urban development director, Kevin Kraft, says a new study called Portland in Motion, will take a hard look at car-driven changes.