At the tip of the eastern U.S., Maine shines with its lighthouses, maritime history and abundant lobster. Maine’s largest ...

Gas company NW Natural spent $21 million building a state-of-the art groundwater treatment system that would stop toxic pollution from flowing off its industrial site into the Willamette River.

Nine years after the Harbor Oil property near Portland's Heron Lakes Golf Course became a federal Superfund cleanup site, the Environmental Protection Agency is The property, fouled by a former ...

Portland Harbor generates about $800 million of total economic output that can be tied to the working waterfront, according to the Portland Regional Chamber of Commerce. In 2023, 516 fishermen ...

Oregon Governor Tina Kotek announced new details about the state’s investments in conservation work --- using money from a ...

A microcosm and totaled cars Portland Pier presents a case study because of its low elevation and diversity of tenants. Jutting 720 feet into the harbor from Commercial Street, the pier is ...

Snow blankets the site of the future Harbor of Hope homeless center in Northwest Portland, Ore., Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019. Amelia Templeton / OPB But the project has faced a series of obstacles ...

It’s long overdue and taken years to begin, but the dredging of Portland Harbor will finally move forward this winter, with the construction of a “confined aquatic disposal" cell ...

“I did it this morning.” Such is the nature of life in Portland, a working harbor town where James Beard Award-winning restaurants operate blocks from a busy waterfront where fishing trawlers ...

Jan. 18—The long-awaited $25 million Portland Harbor dredging project starts on Monday as contractors begin digging a 9-acre pit in a shallow South Portland cove where seven decades of a working ...