The Paris police chief said an officer needed help with translation during a life-or-death situation. Advocates fear this ...

Staffers at Portland’s Park Avenue The Holy Donut are seeking to unionize to address a long list of workplace challenges, including inadequate pay and poor working conditions.

The town signed on to purchase a new fire truck last year but discovered that the funds had already been spent.

Towns across central, southern and western Maine reported several inches of snow as of Wednesday morning.

Mainers understand this and it’s why they support him. Platner’s 38-point edge over Gov. Janet Mills in this same poll back ...

With a The Portland Press Herald subscription, you can gift 5 articles each month. It looks like you do not have any active subscriptions. To get one, go to the subscriptions page. The chief medical ...

A Sebago man died Wednesday after his car went over a bridge barrier in Brunswick, according to police. Brandon Macfarland, 22, was driving up the Route 196 ramp onto Route 1, going north, just before ...

The York co-op hockey coach saw his team get through the 2024-25 season with low numbers, and knew those numbers would be ...

Things seem to be going south in our splendid little war. Service people killed, planes shot down, Israel invading Lebanon, oil prices up, tankers avoiding the region, worldwide long-distance air ...

Every few years, Maine tackles “illicit grows,” usually by applying more restrictions on the legal cannabis market. Are we fighting illegal activity or simply layering Prohibition-era suspicion onto a ...

Douglas Rooks has been a Maine editor, columnist and reporter for 40 years. He welcomes comment at drooks@tds.net. It was a good idea in 1973, and it’s a better idea now. Public power is an idea whose ...

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