Portland Press Herald News Stories

The eight members of the 2025 class join those who have brought distinction and honor to the state of Maine and beyond.

I’d like to follow up on Gov. Janet Mills’ public memo of June 6, kicking off June as “Dairy Month at University of Maine Witter Farm.” The governor emphasized that milk bottled in Maine can be identified by a code on the container beginning with the number 23. It is a little-known fact that while […]

The U.S. embassy in Dakar recently rejected visa applications for several members of Senegal’s women’s basketball team. The team had been scheduled to train in the U.S. Senegal is also among the 36 nations that the United States is considering adding to a travel ban. These visa rejections were wrong, just as those travel bans […]

Sen. Collins needs to hear from us. I think she believes that we all have rights, with no exceptions. But her political party has been taken over by people who want to suppress the rights of everyone but rich, white, cisgendered, male, American citizens. They want to cut services for the poor to give themselves […]

As with any well-loved tradition, wood stacking invites strong opinions.

A set of contrasting responses shows us how easily developments like this can sow political dissent.

Investments made today pay dividends in the form of jobs and dynamic, healthy communities.

One minute I'm watching Nathan Lane in drag, the next we're striking Iran. Why do we keep doing this to ourselves?

A teenager was charged with killing his foster father and cousin, but little is known about the child's time in state care.

This is a response to the June 17 op-ed “Maine’s congressional leaders must step up to stop Trump.” The best way to stop President Donald Trump is for Democrats to take back the U.S. House and Senate in the 2026 election. Democrats lost the 2024 election because they didn’t pay enough attention to working class […]