This Maine home can stay 70 degrees without a furnace, even when it's freezing outside January 25, 2023 Keith Shortall, Maine Public ...

If you love snow, good food and the coastal vibe, visiting Maine in winter is for you! This guide to off-season travel to Portland and Midcoast Maine is ideal for enjoying the outdoors, museums ...

Of the 746,552 homes in Maine, 157,467 of them are vacant, giving the state a 21.1 percent housing vacancy rate.

Efficiency Maine offers some tips on weatherizing your home for winter. They say now is the time to clean boilers and furnaces to make them safe and more efficient.

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An Efficiency Maine initiative may be changing minds about the energy-saving devices, after testing their stand-alone performance in subzero temperatures.

With the price of heating oil in the face of winter weather slowly moving into Maine, Box of Maine has partnered with Maine Veterans Project to heat the homes of Maine veterans. Doc Goodwin, the ...

Maine is much more than “vacationland” and the home of Stephen King, it’s also a beer-lover’s paradise. According to the Maine Brewer’s Guild, the state is currently home to more than ...

Located in southern Maine, Owls Head experienced a winter storm Tuesday with winds powerful enough to push water onto the shore and flood homes.

In the middle of a Maine winter, a super insulated house keeps its family warm. There's no furnace — just a small heat pump. The same heat pump is used to cool the home in the summer months.

What if you could design a house that on a cold day in January would stay at 70 degrees inside — without running the furnace? Or even having a furnace? It's already being done. In fact, what's known ...