Portland Press Herald News Stories

'The Whyte Python World Tour' by Scarborough resident Travis Kennedy goes on sale June 24, and Paramount has already begun developing a movie based on it.

In Gaza, with over 1,000 trucks loaded with life-saving aid that the government of Israel will not allow in, 14,000 babies and infants risked starving to death. Here in Waldo County, there are approximately 1,746 children who are under age 5. By comparison, it means that every child we know — our own children — […]

Families are canceling travel plans, curbing social media activity and struggling to understand how Trump's restrictions will affect them.

This year’s Portland Stage Spring Gala was a bit like an open house, giving guests a chance to focus the theater lights, swap out scenery, perform a quick costume change and direct a scene. “Tonight is building constituencies as much as it about raising money,” said board president Todd Nicholson. “It’s really about making people […]

The timing of the laying off of the CDC team responsible for tracking drownings couldn't be worse.

The State Fire Marshal's Office is assisting in an ongoing investigation of the fire, which extended to the exterior of nearby building before firefighters extinguished it.

Waynflete's state-record run of Class C championships ends at 16 years, and the Maranacook girls win their second state title in three years.

Acadia doesn’t just refer to the famous national park that draws many tourists to Maine each summer. It also describes a culture that is specific to the “Acadian” region of Maine — a region that is not near Acadia National Park and not on the coast, but rather inland along the Upper Valley of the […]

Residents nearby the proposed 122-unit townhome development say the project could increase traffic, flooding and negatively impact the local environment.

In the winter of 1815, at the end of the “Second War of Independence” against Great Britain, the legend of “one of the most successful Yankee Privateers in the War of 1812” was cemented in Maine’s maritime lore. And despite her mysterious disappearance in January 1815, this great “Ghost Ship” has been known to haunt […]