The Latest Breaking News from Portland

Portland Port insists its ‘business as usual’ amid migrant barge controversy

The Dorset port has agreed to provide berthing space for a vessel on which the government is looking to house hundreds of asylum seekers

Birmingham Post · Apr 12, 2023

Maine city reopens arena to hundreds of asylum seekers

Hundreds of asylum seekers have filed into a basketball arena in Portland as Maine’s largest city deals with a months-long surge in immigration that has taxed its already limited housing market

The Independent UK · Apr 10, 2023

Kiss's Tommy Thayer names 11 guitarists who shaped his sound

The Spaceman offers his pick of the greatest riff-masters, salutes the player who invented the power chord and reveals the guitarist his bandmates compare him to (and it's not Ace Frehley)

Guitar World · Apr 10, 2023

Review: Kelly Reichardt's first comedy is a wincingly funny portrait of an artist at work

More than once in "Showing Up," her wry and wonderful new movie, the director Kelly Reichardt gives us something that feels rarer than it should in American cinema: a lingering moment in the presence of an artist at work. Not a famous writer pounding self-consciously away at a typewriter, cranking…

Los Angeles Times · Apr 7, 2023

Kerr: Wiggins won’t play in Warriors’ final 2 regular-season games

Andrew Wiggins will not play in the Golden State Warriors’ final two games of the regular season in Sacramento and Portland, head coach Steve Kerr said Wednesday in a radio interview.

Tribune News Service · Apr 6, 2023

Inside the floating barge that’s set to hold 500 asylum seekers in Dorset

With “natural ventilation and wi-fi connection throughout”, the barge can accommodate up to 506 people across 222 bedrooms

The Independent UK · Apr 6, 2023

Dorset asylum seeker barge will not be like a prison, says minister

But Richard Holden also says efforts will be made to avoid people needing to leave port to access local services

The Guardian - UK · Apr 6, 2023

Home office confirms plans to house asylum seekers on barge at Dorset's Portland Port

The barge, called the Bibby Stockholm, will be berthed in Portland Port for at least 18 months

Birmingham Post · Apr 6, 2023

‘It’s inhumane’: anger at plan to house asylum seekers on barge off Dorset

People on small island of Portland say scheme would be bad for them and bad for those on the vessel

The Guardian - UK · Apr 5, 2023

Tory MP issues legal threat over plan to house migrants on barge

Portland Port in Dorset has been selected as a site to house migrants, despite local opposition.

The Independent UK · Apr 4, 2023