Portland Press Herald News Stories

Mount Vernon and Vienna, population 2,334, share a library whose staff is the epitome of grace and good manners. The library offers all kinds of services including inter-library loan, which I use a lot, so I asked for an unusual book published in 1995 and was informed delivery was not guaranteed anymore. Why? Because libraries […]

Beyoncé put her daughters Blue Ivy and Rumi front and center as she launched her ‘Cowboy Carter’ tour in Los Angeles.

The senator shows heart, listens and acts, something I found out firsthand.

A delightful, laugh-out-loud funny picture book from Midcoast writer and illustrator X. Fang.

For most of my seven decades the cry has been to cut taxes for the rich, make deductions, exemptions, loopholes and outright handouts to the rich. The rich will take the money and trickle it on down to everyone with higher wages and benefits. This trickle down economics is a scam; it has never worked […]

A lonely Van Gogh painted postman Joseph Roulin and his family in a creative frenzy. The portraits, on view at MFA Boston, reveal a wildly immediate inner life.

The 'Cluster Truck' sculpture exhibition invited 11 students at the Maine College of Art and Design to adopt a truck and create an experience or spectacle.

The unidentified man was described as white, balding and aged 60-70, police said.

Maine Switching Services, which will operate as the Cumberland and Knox Railroad, aims to begin carrying freight shipments by the end of May.

Gelato Fiasco donated $2 to the Brunswick Area Teen Center for every dish, cone, pint or coffee sold Wednesday to support programs and meals for kids.