Portland Press Herald News Stories

A public hearing is scheduled for 3 p.m. Wednesday on a citizen initiative that would make it easier to temporarily remove access to firearms from people who are in a crisis.

Pingree, a former speaker of the Maine House, joins a slate of well-known Democrats looking to replace Gov. Janet Mills.

Those working in one of the state's largest and most physically demanding industries need health care coverage.

For me, the flags acknowledged Israel as a part of Jewish history and identity. What now?

Why does our senator continue as a Republican? The House has sent her a bill that cuts $1 trillion to $1.5 trillion from Medicaid, food stamps and even Medicare (not to mention renewing the 2017 TCJA tax cuts, resulting in CBO’s nonpartisan $3.8 trillion of net deficits) along with abrogating the ability of the judiciary […]

How much longer will the genocide in Palestine go on? Both Gaza and now the West Bank are under relentless attack. In Gaza, starving people are being shot by Israeli forces as they try to get the scraps of food that is being allowed to trickle in by Tel Aviv. Every day on social media […]

Anyone who has ever dreamt of being the one on the playground who stepped in to help a bullied child — the one who had the courage to stand up against a clear wrong — needs to show that courage now. Just as Maine Sen. Margaret Chase Smith did in her “Declaration of Conscience” 75 […]

I understand the motivation behind the postcard campaign, but I think it’s long past time for “Susan Collins to declare her conscience” (Opinion, May 27). I’m sure I’m not alone in having contacted Sen. Collins with that message years ago, to no avail. Since Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski has confessed that “We are all afraid […]

Camden Hills finally gets long-sought regional victory over Brunswick; Falmouth, Lincoln Academy and Maranacook also win.

Yarmouth rolls again in Class B South, while Falmouth, Camden Hills and Waynflete also advance to Wednesday's championship matches.