Opponents of the proposal to create a 26-mile bicycle and pedestrian trail along the route say the tracks should stay in ...

About 15 years ago, Ellen Wyoming DeLoy was in graduate school in Portland, Ore. She regularly used the city's light rail ...

Narrowly defeated last year, rail advocates have returned with refreshed legislation aimed at restoring passenger service from Portland to Bangor.

The new platform, along with the added track capacity, will support an additional Downeaster train that will operate between ...

The state desperately needs both rail and trail. Pitting these modes against each other will only undermine them both.

Maine environmental officials pinned an April 2023 train derailment that hospitalized three people and spilled hundreds of gallons of fuel on a beaver dam Wednesday. The train derailment occurred ...

On Monday, Portland State University was among 60 universities under investigation for antisemitic discrimination and harassment by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights.

AUBURN — Maine lawmakers are under growing pressure to yank up the state-owned railroad tracks between Auburn and Portland and create a 26-mile bicycle and pedestrian trail that would cost as ...

Maine is also the 14th worst state in ... subsidy of at least $17 million per year to develop a passenger rail corridor between Portland and Bangor. That sounds like a lot of money when compared ...