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He’s not on the ballot, but Portland’s city manager looms large in mayor’s race

Whoever is elected mayor on Nov. 5 will have to work closely with Jon Jennings, who has clashed repeatedly with the incumbent.

The city is installing sensors at 10 intersections along the heavily used thoroughfare to assess the traffic and adjust signals in real time.

The popular Portland neighborhood restaurant needs to expand and add more equipment, the chef/owner says.

Three candidates have already raised more than $300,000 – a record – and spent more that $173,000 seeking Portland’s top elective office.

Parts of the Woodbury Campus Center got 6 inches of water when a fire main broke late Saturday or early Sunday, officials say.

The Nao Santa Maria, a copy of Christopher Columbus’ flagship, is due to dock at Maine Wharf around 8 a.m.

The protesters, mainly students and low-income renters, tell the city that higher rents will make many of them homeless.

The city has teamed up with the Maine Department of Environmental Protection to install an air quality monitor in the West End.

Two projects planned for the neighborhood require tearing down homes in a historic conservation area that was created last year.

John Williams faces a prison term of 25 years to life for the murder of Cpl. Eugene Cole last year.