Hannah LaClaire

The Prosperity Place project in Nason's Corner would be the first housing development for Prosperity Maine, a nonprofit that assists immigrant, refugee and low-income families.

More and more homes are hitting the market in Maine, but inventory still remains well below what experts consider a balanced level.

The Mark in Cumberland and a proposal for Hope Avenue in Portland are tied to the same developer, GenX Capital Development, and have run into financial issues.

Islands with year-round residents need emergency responders, gas station attendants, postal workers, store clerks and teachers. When there's nowhere for vital workers to live, they turn elsewhere. It's eroding a storied way of life.

The City Council voted Monday to buy 3 vacant lots for nearly $13 million more than the original purchase price and put almost a decade of litigation behind it.

Maine Technology Institute is courting proposals for a a co-working wet laboratory space for fledgling businesses to test out their ideas.

A new report from Harvard University shows that for the first time, more than half of Portland renters are considered cost-burdened, meaning they spend more than 30% of their income on housing.

Maine homebuyers paid a median of $425,000 in May, just two months after the state recorded the first price decrease in 6 years.

The quasi-state agency warns that without more money from the Legislature, affordable housing production will slow dramatically.

Drinks with low doses of the psychoactive compound found in cannabis are proliferating at markets and breweries because of a federal loophole. Maine's pot shops are not pleased.

Legislators passed a bill to give mobile homeowners the 'right of first refusal' when their parks go up for sale.

State lawmakers carried over a bill that would have added testing and tracking requirements industry members have fought against for years. They will reconsider the proposal next year.

Managing Editor John Richardson will retire in July after 35 years at the paper.

Lawmakers supported a bill to add $3 million to a fund to help residents purchase their mobile home parks. But its fate hinges on whether it makes it into the budget.

The median home sale price was back up to $400,000 last month after a slight decrease in March.

For the first time in 15 years, the Casco Bay Island Transit District has approved a rate hike for cars going on the ferry to Peaks Island.

The Trump administration recently halted more than $15 million in funding for the university's Advanced Structures and Composites Center.

MaineHousing has in the last month announced more than $30 million in funding to boost construction of single-family homes and apartments.

The Legislature's Housing and Economic Development Committee is considering a moratorium on the sale of mobile home parks while lawmakers consider a handful of bills designed to protect residents.

Roughly $2 million is at risk for the broadcasting company, but the president and CEO says it's far from a done deal.