Portland Press Herald News Stories

Independent Sen. Angus King detailed his opposition to Trump's tax cuts and spending package on Wednesday, while Republican Sen. Susan Collins has expressed concerns about certain provisions.

The company, started by 2 Maine cousins, started with a single food truck.

The Maine Commission on Public Defense Services was given roughly $51 million yearly in the state's two-year $11.3 billion budget.

Bath Heritage Days has a big lineup of familiar events and a few new ones from July 3-6.

The Newport native and No. 1 pick in the NBA Draft will be teammates with two fellow Duke one-and-done players — Kyrie Irving and Dereck Lively II.

The agency's data used to be the envy of the world. Those days are gone, and we need to bring them back.

Tim Keiderling’s death was ruled accidental by the medical examiner's office, which previously determined that his daughter Esther died of blunt force trauma that park officials said likely resulted from a fall.

Jazz and blues pianist Susanna Fiore will perform with Jay Girill on acoustic bass in an afternoon concert at 4:30 p.m. Friday, June 28, in Damariscotta. The concert is one of several events offered by the Maine Art Gallery during its eight-week retrospective of the art of Susanna’s father, Joseph A. Fiore. Curator and Fiore […]

Gulf of Maine Books will host a conversation with novelists Agnes Bushell and Art Dingley at Curtis Memorial Library at 6 p.m. Tuesday, July 1. Bushell and Dingley will read from and discuss their new, very different books, “Verity & Perpetua,” set in Elizabethan England, and “Immigrants,” set on the Maine/Quebec border. “Verity & Perpetua,” […]

Legislation sponsored by Rep. Kilton Webb, D-Durham, to strengthen Maine’s pre-apprenticeship and apprenticeship programs was signed into law by Gov. Janet Mills on June 13. LD 1117 will allow the Maine Apprenticeship Program to make grants available to certified pre-apprenticeship and apprenticeship training programs designed to prepare Mainers for high-wage, in-demand jobs. These grants may […]