Portland Press Herald News Stories

The fishery hit historic highs in 2021 and 2024, but the numbers aren't as rosy as they seem.

The Terlingua Outpost is expected to launch early this summer.

Malcolm Mitchell visited Kennebunkport Consolidated School this month to share his experience with reading and encourage kids to follow their dreams.

In mid-October 1907, one of the greatest financial panics in American history sparked when a stock takeover by “one of the most powerful bankers in the nation” failed. That banker was a man from Bath. Charles Wyman Morse was born in Bath on Oct. 21, 1856, to Benjamin W. Morse and Anna E.J. Morse. The […]

The House voted to withdraw from a multistate compact to eventually award Electoral College votes to winners of the presidential popular vote, and the Senate tabled the bill Wednesday.

The police chief of the York County town said the department is taking a 'wait-and-see approach' after state lawmakers introduced bills to prohibit local police from carrying out federal immigration policy.

Reuben M. Schafir, a Bowdoin College graduate and former Press Herald intern, will be returning to the newsroom in July to cover the Wabanaki Nations.

We can no longer live with a system that puts process above outcomes.

We've strayed far from our values as a nation.

It is my hope that my children and grandchildren will be keepers of the tradition.