U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree says federal officials are prohibiting attorneys from accompanying their clients to routine immigration appointments here in Maine.

For Mainers living in driving distance, maybe even close enough for a day trip, visiting Bar Harbor doesn’t have to break the bank, especially with the help of some insider tips that will keep costs down without sacrificing any fun.

Stefanie was last seen running into the North Maine Woods beside the Damron’s home in the tiny Aroostook County town of New Sweden, 20 miles from the Canadian border. Authorities have mounted a massive search in the last year in more than 4,500 acres of thick backcountry forest.

7 Maine foliage treks with an antique twist

Hearts of Pine stay hot and win key game in push to playoffs

Maine seafood processors purchase America's last sardine canning factory

A teenager has been missing in the Maine woods for 1 year

South Portland tank farms expected to be sold. What could happen next?

Maine’s border towns feel decline in Canadian visitors: ‘Half our community is gone’

The play is co-written and produced by Irish husband and wife journalists Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney. The performance was planned by the same conservative student group that recently postponed a planned memorial event for slain right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk because of threats.

Pillsbury will be the musical guest on the second episode of the season, which will be hosted by SNL alum Amy Poehler.

Instead of making an appointment and billing through private insurance, the new primary care option — Trellis Health — will allow employers or patients to pay a monthly membership fee to gain unfettered access to a primary care team.

Although nothing official has been announced, Portland Pipe Line Corporation is expected to sell its holdings any day now, a development that would end its long and sometimes fraught relationship with the city and open up new possibilities to reimagine the land.

More than 5% of Maine is now in extreme drought conditions, and nearly two-thirds of the state is in some degree of drought, according to data released Thursday by the U.S. Drought Monitor.

Portland police say they have closed a decades-old unsolved homicide case after determining who set the fire that killed a 73-year-old woman.

Favor Kabwe struggled to find the words to describe his feelings after being naturalized as an American citizen. “A huge relief,” the 39-year-old Auburn resident said. “Finally, I belong here,” said Kabwe. “This is my home.”

Maine’s forests, yards and lakes under siege by invasive species

Chaos erupts at Lincoln school board meeting over teacher’s statement on slain conservative Charlie Kirk

Video game profits, the lawsuit claims, depend on how long they can draw kids in and increase in-game purchases. It’s free to sign up for the games. While there are some age restrictions on what a user can see in games like Roblox, the complaint alleges it’s easy for children to skirt around them.

Central Maine Power Co. is asking regulators for permission to incrementally raise customers’ monthly distribution rates by about $35 between 2026 and 2031.

The father was arrested by a group of men in black “police” vests Thursday morning after dropping off his child at Gerald E. Talbot Community School. They were driving unmarked vehicles and declined to tell a district administrator who they worked for, school officials said.

“If you’re hungry, you don’t really think about what you’re learning. You think more about what I’m going to eat when I get home or am I even going to have anything when I get home.”

The U.S. Department of Justice is suing Maine and its secretary of state for failing to provide voter registration lists, which include personal information such as names, birth dates and partial Social Security numbers, that it has demanded twice in recent months.

Penobscot Nation to reclaim 1,700 acres in rural Maine as tribe grows land holdings

Conservatives out educators, including some in Maine, accused of cheering Charlie Kirk’s death

A 24-year-old Cornish man was arrested Monday after he allegedly made threats toward the University of New England in Biddeford. Blake Tibbetts is accused of making “concerning comments” about the school at a restaurant in Cornish.

Redford died Tuesday at the age of 89, remembered as one of Hollywood’s iconic leading men, an Oscar-winning director and a longstanding environmental advocate.

Sen. Susan Collins suggested Republicans could have to make changes to President Donald Trump’s budget bill and defended the ousted director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Central Maine Power has filed its 5-year infrastructure plan, which includes rate changes that would increase an average Maine household's monthly bill by about $17 next year. While state officials have condemned the proposal, CMP argues it's necessary to ensure reliability. @pressherald.com

“Pop-ups have been a really good window into the world of restaurant ownership without actually owning one and paying for all the overhead and labor."

At 3:30 a.m., the masked person had privacy. Timestamps from the footage suggest they already had been at work for more than an hour. The figure was gone by the time the sun rose, illuminating 25 brand new parking kiosks tagged with pink hearts, the card readers jammed with spray foam.

"The reality isn’t that Mainers are being replaced, as Kirk put it. It’s that they’re doing what it takes to forge a future worthy of the hard work of our ancestors and the dreams of our children."

Pop-up dinners bring Maine chefs closer to their dreams

Portland taxi fares get a bump for first time in over 15 years

The annual event kicks off next week with the goal to celebrate Black and Black immigrant children’s books and their creators. The festival also honors the legacy of artist and storyteller Ashley Bryan, whose books include the classic “Beautiful Blackbird.”

The future of a publicly subsidized health care system that provides coverage to about 1 in 4 Mainers is tenuous.

President Trump’s order has had a broad impact on institutions around the country, with agencies like NASA and the NIH altering websites and eliminating requirements for inclusivity. To align with the new edict, researchers in Maine are changing the way they talk about their work.

Big concert venues have stacked schedules, including a few more outdoor shows.

Maine events this week include the Common Ground fair and Jeff Buckley

Couples across the state say a Bangor-based wedding caterer has failed to follow through on her promises, leaving them out thousands of dollars and scrambling to find food and drinks on their big day.

Staff of Maine’s community college system criticize new software program as ‘deeply flawed’

Maine's baby eel black market spawns crime-thriller subgenre

The recent deficit in MaineCare, the state’s version of Medicaid, emerged after years of state budget surpluses and a massive infusion of federal funds, which masked the problem.

A former campaign staffer for 2020 U.S. Senate candidate Max Linn was found guilty this week of embezzling more than $200,000 that he had promised to invest in cryptocurrency.

Gov. Janet Mills issued an order Friday that allows all health care professionals in the state to administer the COVID-19 vaccine to all Mainers. It goes beyond what new federal guidance had allowed, and comes after weeks of uncertainty over who would be able to get the shot, and at what cost.

Baxter State Park is seeking the public’s help in identifying the individual or individuals who carved their initials into the sign at the summit of Mount Katahdin.

The detention of a Portland parent during student drop-off has sent a chilling effect through the district, the school board chair said a day after immigration officers refused to identify themselves as they took a man into custody near Gerald E. Talbot Community School.

Gov. Janet Mills issued an order authorizing Maine health care providers to administer the COVID-19 vaccine “to individuals who meet the criteria established by the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention.”

In a now-deleted post Thursday on the social media platform X, King shared comments that praised Kirk but added his own note above it: “He advocated stoning gays to death. Just sayin’.”

The handler of Maine’s first official comfort dog, which was found dead inside a state vehicle in May, has been charged with animal cruelty.