Portland Press Herald

08/07/2025

Now that organizers have shown it can work, would bigger be better? Culture columnist Leslie Bridgers reflects on Back Cove fest.

Now that organizers have shown it can work, would bigger be better?

08/07/2025

Saturday and Sunday shows at Thompson's Point include several guests, including Hanson and The Mountain Goats.

08/07/2025

The president, along with plenty of enablers, is engaged in an assault on knowledge itself, writes columnist Douglas Rooks.

The president, along with plenty of enablers, is engaged in an assault on knowledge itself.

08/07/2025

Jean Gendron, 61, of Smyrna, South Carolina, was arrested just before 5 p.m. Thursday when he was getting off a bus in Londonderry, New Hampshire.

It wasn't clear if the suspect in the Chase Bank robbery Thursday morning — Jean Gendron, 61, of Smyrna, South Carolina — was also a suspect in 2 bank robberies in Portland within the past week.

08/07/2025

Newly released video footage and a search warrant details the events leading up to the mistaken apprehension of a Deering High School student in May.

08/07/2025

Last summer was Maine's hottest on record and data show the state is getting hotter.

08/07/2025

Matthew Clancy, arrested Friday for assaulting an officer during a late-night scuffle Friday in Hallowell, was also stopped in Waterville in 2023 for appearing intoxicated in his parked truck.

08/07/2025

When Peter Morrison found out bystanders had given him CPR after he collapsed while on a bike ride, social media helped him find them.

Read the story: https://www.pressherald.com/2025/08/05/a-cyclist-collapsed-on-portlands-back-cove-strangers-saved-his-life/

08/07/2025

This match couldn’t have come at a better time. If nothing else, it’s a small reminder that neighbors should care for one another and avoid picking silly fights, writes sports columnist Travis Lazarczyk.

Hosting the Halifax Wanderers FC was a small but significant display of friendship by Maine to the Maritimes.

08/07/2025

Portland police are investigating a robbery Wednesday morning at a bank on Baxter Boulevard — the second bank robbery in the city in five days.

The robbery at Kennebec Savings Bank was reported shortly after 11 a.m. Wednesday.

08/07/2025

Derald Young needed to get away. Not just from routine or stress but from the ground itself.

5 decades of flights later, Derald is a living archive of sky-high adventure. Next Tuesday, we’re sitting down with him for a Maine Voices Live conversation to hear what it’s like to live your life tethered only to the wind.

GET TICKETS: https://www.tickets207.com/events/facebook-20077
August 12, 7:00 p.m. | Lewiston Public Library

08/07/2025

Maine might seem like a big state, until you look at it through Colby Adolphsen’s eyes.

More than a dozen of Colby Adolphsen's creations, from Nubble Lighthouse off York to Bangor's Paul Bunyan statue, are at the museum through December.