PORTLAND — Dozens of city residents are running for the state House of Representatives this year, including the city’s first Somali candidates. Mohammed Dini, a Bayside resident and student at the University of Southern Maine, is running for the District 119 seat and will face fellow Democrat Jill Barkley in a primary June 8. Rep. […]

PORTLAND — A Portland Public Library plan to close three branches and instead work with community groups to create mobile library services has come under fire from residents of the neighborhoods that would lose their branches. Some city councilors are also suggesting that the library’s approximately $3.1 million budget allocation be reduced because of the […]

The prisoner says he is tired of telling the story. But there’s a court hearing on the horizon that could be his last chance at a new trial. There are some things that he wants the public to hear again. So Dennis Dechaine answers the same questions the officers asked on that summer night in the woods of Bowdoin in 1988. Did you take the girl? Did you kill Sarah Cherry?

Lobsters and fish are “smart, sensitive,” group argues.

PORTLAND — Removing 1,000 vehicles from Maine’s Interstate highways will require commuter rail or rapid bus service. The question for state transportation planners is which one, and how? Since 2008, the Maine Department of Transportation has been reviewing alternative transportation options in the Portland North Project, a study that will be used to apply for […]

It has an opportunity to show that it’s serious about creating workable evaluation guidelines.

U.S. and Iraqi forces kill the group’s top figures in an air and ground assault on their safe house.

Relatives used bamboo poles to push aid to two of the victims, who were protected by a bed frame.

Supporters of the state’s High School Mock Trial Competition say they need to raise about $8,000 by June 1 to keep the program running this fall. Friends of Mock Trial, a nonprofit group, already has raised about $7,000 of the $15,000 needed to fund the competition, which was started in the mid-1990s. The Maine State […]

FALMOUTH — Three years ago, photojournalist Jim Daniels was on a nine-day trek across the snowy peaks of the Himalaya mountains with his wife, Mary Lello, to celebrate her 50th birthday. While they were stopped at a camp in Ladakh, India, to adjust to the altitude, Daniels snapped a picture of a boy carrying a […]