PORTLAND — The task force created earlier this year to research options for addressing excessive noise in the Old Port and downtown is recommending the noise limit be raised and that a committee be created to deal with problems. The Downtown Noise Task Force, made up of bar owners, musicians, residents, City Councilor Dory Waxman […]

Two Massachusetts women say their car was hit from behind by a school bus that then took off.

PORTLAND — Northeast Patients Group has received permission from the state to establish a medical marijuana dispensary at the corner of Congress and St. John streets. The OK came after the state decided a nearby church education program is not a “school.” The former bank building picked by Northeast came into question because state law […]

PORTLAND — The City Council on Monday is expected to begin deliberating a proposal from wharf owners to relax waterfront zoning. The council will get an overview of the proposed new zoning, which has been making its way through the Planning Department and Planning Board since wharf owners in December 2008 submitted a letter requesting […]

Medical teams are dispatched to the nation’s northwest amid fears that cholera could soon spread.

The inquiry is meant to oversee separate probes by Israel and Turkey.

In one case, a man tried to use a prosthetic penis attached to a container that had ‘clean’ urine.

PORTLAND — On about 2 1/2 acres of land between Back Cove and Interstate 295, a garden full of flowers, shrubs and trees is gradually taking shape. But the project is more than about adding beauty to the heavily used Back Cove Trail. It’s proof that healthy landscaping can be achieved without using harmful chemicals […]

SCARBOROUGH — Town Councilor Shawn Babine announced his resignation, citing educational pursuits and an interim job as chief executive officer of the national Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity as the main reasons for his departure. “I find the constraints of my studies and my interim assignment requiring me to focus less on town matters and as […]

PORTLAND — Margaret Downing has been named the new head of school at Catherine McAuley High School, the Stevens Avenue school announced in a press release.  Downing will take over leadership of the the state’s only Catholic college-prep school for girls from Sister Edward Mary Kelleher, who has been principal since 1980. Kelleher will serve […]