Affordability gloom helps shape Labor Day rallies

Meet the man behind Bangor’s most controversial housing project

BangorHousing director Mike Myatt faces intense community backlash over a proposed supportive housing project, sparking a wider debate about affordability, taxpayer accountability, and the city's homelessness crisis.

Belfast family lives without modern amenities to protest environmental destruction

The Hughes family lives a minimalist, off-grid life in Maine, operating an 'intentional community' that serves as an incubator for climate activists and anti-capitalist projects.

Old Town council presses ahead with ban on data centers

The proposed ban would last 180 days, and city councilors talked about sending the issue to a referendum next year.

Hundreds of chanting men have this Maine town searching for a law to stop them

Members of Legendarios, an evangelical men’s group, first showed up at a shuttered campsite in Kingfield last year.

Families' interest in their kids' education is falling around the globe as scores drop, test shows

Families’ interest in their kids’ education is falling in many high-income countries as school systems struggle with plunging test scores, according to newly released results from a standardized test taken by 15-year-olds around the world. Over 760,000 teenagers in dozens of countries took the Programme for International Student Assessment last year. Results released Tuesday show […]