So here it is. We’re four days into December, and there’s no snow on the ground or smell of it in the air. The grass is green and brown, but it’s not dead. It’s just lying there cropped so short to the bone you couldn’t hide a quarter in it.

AUGUSTA — The embattled director of MaineHousing says she’s tired of the schoolyard taunts that critics have been hurling at her agency.

AUGUSTA — Protesters who came to the Blaine House to demand an audience with Gov. Paul LePage got just what they asked for Saturday — a meeting with the governor.

CHINA — A week later, Alison Clair still hadn’t simmered down after what she calls “the craziest weekend of my life.”

AUGUSTA — Maine is bracing for a new wave of need as extended federal unemployment benefits near their end.