Absentee voting kicked off this month in advance of the June 9 statewide primaries and municipal elections, many of which ...

Spring is, of course, planting time for crop farmers. But other kinds of Maine food producers also have their spring rituals.

York County residents can weigh in on the proposed county budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1 at a public hearing ...

For Maine governor, I am excited to vote for Secretary of State Shenna Bellows and former House Speaker Hannah Pingree. Maine ...

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Scarborough Town Council approved a combined school and municipal budget of $169 million in a 6-1 vote Wednesday night. The ...

Presumptive Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate Graham Platner on Thursday named former state senate president Troy Jackson as ...

Olivia and Liam again topped the list of most popular baby names in the country in 2025, as they have for years. Here in ...

Visiting civil rights era sites in Alabama with a group of teenagers filled me with a renewed sense of optimism. The fight is ...

Join Portland Press Herald food editor Peggy Grodinsky and writer Tim Cebula for a live Q&A from 9-10 a.m. Thursday, May 28.

Stephen Bouchard, 63, is charged with killing his girlfriend, Alice Hawkes, in 1987; he has pleaded not guilty. Investigators ...

Troy Carpenter hit a tiebreaking two-run homer in the fifth inning, and Brennan Rumpf of Falmouth pitched 3 2/3 scoreless ...