Ben Skillings News Today

The city has no backup option if Greater Portland Peer Services, the nonprofit running the shelter, cannot keep it open. The organization has requested an additional $200,000 from MaineHousing to continue operations through March.

MaineHousing gave out $1.4 million in grants to open overnight warming shelters. Many are filling up every night – and some are running out of money.

Southern Maine could get up to a foot of snow by Sunday afternoon, the region's first significant snowfall this winter.

Southern Maine could get up to a foot of snow by Sunday afternoon, the region's first significant snowfall this winter.

Southern Maine is expected to see up to a foot of snow by Sunday afternoon, the first significant snowfall this winter, but still far below the normal 19.4 inches.

Eighteen months and $1 million went into the redevelopment of an early 19th-century building in the West End that was built for Prentice Mellen, who was a U.S. Senator prior to his term as Chief Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.