SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine — Construction is underway in South Portland, where Preble Street is building a facility designed to help bolster Maine's emergency preparedness. The nonprofit has been working to piece together its Food Security Hub in order to help combat hunger and food insecurity statewide.

Maine-based groups took to the streets of Portland Saturday to protest the incoming Trump administration ahead of Inauguration Day. The People's March was hosted as a response to Project 2025, the far-right political roadmap that has been linked regularly to Donald Trump.

Cumberland County Sheriff's deputies chased an erratic driver through Casco and ended up arresting two criminals

Winter weather is expected in Maine early next week, followed by frigid temperatures. Forecasters expect snow to accumulate Sunday afternoon into the evening. The Portland area could see anywhere from 4-8 inches,

Maine’s lighthouses are under a dire threat from significant coastal storms and sea level rise due to climate change.

Not sure what to do in the winter months in Maine? Here is a quick list of activities to try both outdoors and indoors, plus a few popular spots to try them.

PORTLAND (WGME) – A Democratic state lawmaker is proposing a tax on smokers to help fund a medical school in Maine. Democratic State Senator Joe Baldacci (D-Bangor) put out a bill last month that would add a $1 tax to each pack of cigarettes to pay for a medical school at the University of Maine in Orono.

The reimbursement rate cutbacks would amount to about a 36% cut in Medicaid payments to some doctors, according to hospital operators.

MNGRR CEO Griffin Bourassa said he received a letter on Dec. 12 saying that they had two weeks to clear railroad equipment for construction.

Hardee's! Home of the Thickburger! Only seven states in the U.S don't have a Hardee's and sadly New Hampshire is one of them. NO FAIR! The other six are Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Maine, Vermont and New York.

According to Jeremy D'Entremont, the historian for the U.S. Lighthouse Society, Portland Head Light dates back to 1784, when 74 merchants petitioned the Massachusetts government, whom Maine was under at the time, for a light at the entrance of Portland Harbor.

State officials are preparing to end a transitional housing program for asylum seekers later this year amid high costs and a declining number of new arrivals to Maine. The Mills administration and MaineHousing,