Portland Press Herald News Stories

A 1919 law banned the use of French in the state's public schools. We can connect the dots from there.

A bill to create a green crab only license for wholesale dealers promises environmental and economic benefits.

The filmmaker's exacting requirements for screening the seven-film series are almost as intriguing as the work itself.

After months of clashing over General Assistance reimbursements to local emergency shelters, DHHS adopts a rule that will slash Portland’s rate nearly in half.

Spending time in nature is one of the best things you can do. Try telling that to the Trump administration.

A school board committee advanced a policy Tuesday that would have schools collect student phones at the start of the day and return them at the end.

The Wreck Room provides the bats and breakable objects. You bring the bitterness.

I believe Victor Orban, the oligarchical, autocratic leader of Hungary, has had a large hand in orchestrating our administration. It is Orban’s “playbook” that the conservatives followed in their Project 2025. Orban was a speaker at several CPACs going back to 2016. Orban visited our current president several times at his home before this past […]

There are questions over how Maine’s forests will fare in a world beset by climate change.

The National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Formula Program was brought to a halt by the Trump administration in February. But states have interpreted federal guidance differently.