Portland Press Herald News Stories

Women's Division II and III teams are left out of 'Championship Weekend' at Gillette Stadium, raising questions about whether the NCAA is treating all athletes equally.

While the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol was an attempt to destroy democracy, the recent 'No Kings' demonstrations looked to preserve it.

I find it shamefully ironic that 85 years after the genocide of Jewish people and others by the Nazis, the Israeli government behaves in the same way. No ovens, just bombs and missiles. I remind those who remain ignorant that this mess was created in 1947 with the Balfour Declaration by Britain. Then came the […]

Medical personnel attended the death of Ty John Michael, 56, who was sentenced on sex offender and drug charges in 2025.

Further capitulation to the administration is not an option.

Maine homebuyers paid a median of $425,000 in May, just two months after the state recorded the first price decrease in 6 years.

Despair after trading Luka Doncic turned to hope as Dallas, with just a 1.8% chance, won the right to draft Flagg.

It's a moment Maine basketball fans have been waiting for and experts think Flagg will fit in right away.

The recent “No Kings” protests affirmed just how furious millions of American patriots are with the Trump administration’s Gestapo-esque enforcement of deportation policy. However, by focusing our energy on the acute symptoms of our country’s MAGA disease (ICE abductions, the president’s deluded ramblings, his unhinged foreign policy, etc.) we distract ourselves from the root cause […]

In the year 1969, man landed on the moon, and my 7-year-old brother was admitted to the children’s cancer ward at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. Curing childhood leukemia in 1969 was truly a moonshot. My brother did not survive. My parents, in their unfathomable grief, gave consent to an autopsy. What […]