The number of passengers scheduled to sail into port this year is up 15 percent from a year ago, city officials say, with 12,000 expected this week alone.

A scorecard prepared by Camoin Associates of Scarborough shows that Portland has had little or no improvement in 14 of 28 economic indicators.

Financial institutions are scrambling for answers because they will be on the hook for most losses.

Without a union, supermarket workers, management and customers pull off a boycott destined to be a labor history landmark.

‘A party atmosphere’ replaces silence as the company’s only Maine store marks the end of a long – and successful – boycott.