Portland's rent control / Bucksport seminary's rebirth / Maine storm relief

Today is Monday. Temperatures will be in the high 20s to mid-30s from north to south, with the cloud cover increasing across the states. See what the weather for the rest of the day will be here.

Here’s what we’re talking about in Maine today.

Climate change splits Maine lawmakers trying to aid storm-ravaged coastal towns

Local officials have estimated that the total cost of the damage is in the millions and described the damage as historically bad.

New rules could make it harder for incarcerated Mainers to get lawyers

The rules are supposed to make sure lawyers carry a sustainable caseload, but critics say they unnecessarily restrict lawyers from taking on clients they can help.

Missing data and $0 rents make it hard to know if Portland’s rent control is working

Portland doesn’t require the landlords of exempt units to report their rent prices and only 29 percent did so ahead of a recent study.

Long-neglected Bucksport seminary nearly reborn as apartments

Wilson Hall, built before the Civil War, was in dire straits for years as its bell tower sagged and its windows were broken and boarded up.

Developer wants to convert former Orono factory into 30 apartments

The building at 74 Mill St. was built in the late 1860s as a church, then became a factory in 1925.

New leadership takes on Loring’s many challenges

Jonathan Judkins recently became interim president and CEO of the Loring Development Authority, the state-funded economic development entity that has been working to redevelop the former base.

Aroostook emergency planners are preparing for eclipse influx

In just over two months, 40,000 or more eclipse chasers are predicted to descend upon the area, and local officials hope to be ready.

As temperatures plunge, a midcoast shelter is now open every night of winter

Urgency to keep The Gathering Place open overnight all winter grew after one of its regulars froze to death in 2019.

Inside the frigid effort to salvage a wrecked Maine fishing boat

The Tara Lynn II wrecked on the shore in the wee hours of the morning of Jan. 13 just ahead of a record-setting storm.

UMaine men’s hockey tickets have become the must-have item of the season

The University of Maine’s eighth-ranked hockey team’s surprising performance is reaping benefits both on and off the ice.

Who drove a snowmobile to the peak of Katahdin?

“Snow sleds are not allowed except on the perimeter road at Baxter and going up the mountain with one would be really verboten,” BDN Outdoors contributor Bill Green writes.