Special Features

Read Portland restaurant inspection reports


Oversight of Maine restaurants diminishes, just as complaints rise
After infestation, Portland rushed restaurant reopenings
Porthole, Comedy Connection closed again, future is uncertain
Portland eatery inspections, smoking ban get review
Portland starts new push for restaurant safety rules
Second Portland restaurant inspector being groomed

Maine School Report Cards



A Guide to Portland's Food Trucks



dataBASE: Searchable data



VoteTRAC: MaineCare expansion

L.D. 1546 would make expand eligibility for MaineCare, the state's version of Medicaid, the federally funded health insurance program for low-income people. Also, the bill authorizes the state to develop a new wholesale liquor contract and allocates about $189 million from the proceeds to pay a debt to Maine hospitals.

Police Beat

The latest police log from your area.

VoteTRAC: Superintendent residency votes, after LePage's veto

The Maine House of Representatives voted Tuesday to uphold Gov. LePage's veto of LD 6. While a majority voted to override, the vote fell short of the two-thirds majority needed to overrule the governor. Find out how your lawmakers voted in this interactive graphic.
LePage's superintendent residency veto stands
For Biddeford superintendent, it's new home or new job

Maine Crime Maps



VoteTRAC: Superintendent residency votes, before LePage's veto

When it was initially approved in April, LD 6, the bill to waive residency requirements for school superintendents, received more than enough votes to override the Governor's veto. But in a post-veto vote in May, the bill fell short of the two-thirds majority needed to overrule the governor. Find out how your lawmakers initially voted, before the veto, in this interactive graphic.
LePage's superintendent residency veto stands
For Biddeford superintendent, it's new home or new job

VoteTrac: Track votes on concealed-carry permit info



SPECIAL SECTION: 20 years of the Portland Sea Dogs


Hadlock homecoming: A chance to relive special times in a special place
Catching up with an early leader

Interactive chart: Maine school report cards and poverty

A comparison of school district poverty and school ratings assigned from the Maine Department of Education.
Is Maine grading quality, or incomes?

SPECIAL SECTION: Kennebunk Prostitution Case


Strong jailed 20 days in Zumba prostitution case
Prosecution seeks year in jail for Zumba defendant
Attorney: 'Love' drove defendant in Zumba case
Prosecution rests case in Zumba trial
What's a 'pimp'? Question at core of Zumba trial
Kennebunk prostitution trial delayed until Feb. 13
Highest court halts secret Kennebunk jury selection
Zumba judge: Won't reconsider decision to exclude media
Kennebunk prostitution case defendant Strong in plea talks
Magazine opus: Scandal in a Maine town exposed anew
Two more suspects identified in Kennebunk prostitution case
Four men fined in Kennebunk prostitution case
Court papers in Zumba case describe confiscated items
Kennebunk police release 15 more names in prostitution case
Four men plead guilty in Kennebunk prostitution case
Evidence files given to Zumba teacher's lawyer
Accused Kennebunk 'johns' to appear in court Wednesday
Judge affirms separate trials for key figures in Zumba case
2 men guilty, third doesn't show in Kennebunk prostitution case
Two more men plead guilty in Kennebunk prostitution case
Motions rejected in Kennebunk prostitution case
Attorney in Kennebunk prostitution case asks to quit
Two sides to discuss plea in Kennebunk prostitution case
Can Kennebunk prostitution suspects get fair trial?
Kennebunk prostitution jury pool quizzed in secret
Newspaper objects, but Kennebunk juror review still secret
Judge to decide how to proceed in Kennebunk prostitution case
Maine high court to hear appeal in Kennebunk prostitution case
Dismissal of 46 counts upheld in prostitution case
Judge: Prosecutors can't be called as witnesses in Zumba trial
Strong was smitten lover, not 'pimp,' lawyer says
Witness saw accused Zumba prostitute disrobe; 'really awkward'
Detective: Evidence mishandled in Kennebunk prostitution case
'Very sexual' photos at issue in Zumba case
Evidence complaint rejected in Zumba case
Zumba jurors watch video showing naked Wright
Jurors see sex videos in Zumba trial
Judge walks fine line in deciding what explicit evidence to allow
Strong found guilty on all 13 counts in Zumba case
Defense: Verdicts in Zumba trial not valid
Alexis Wright, prosecutors begin new round of plea talks
Alexis Wright pleads guilty, will go to jail
Kennebunk police investigating 40 more prostitution suspects

Congratulations to Colin Woodard, 2012 Polk Award winner


Reporter Colin Woodard earns prestigious award

Deadly force: Police & the mentally ill


Search the database: Police use of deadly force 1990-2012

Follow the Money: Searchable campaign finance databases


Outside campaign funds flooded state in negativity

Truth Test 2012


Truth Test: King ad right on tax decrease, dubious on bond rating

Deadly force series: Day 1



Deadly force series: Day 2



Deadly force series: Day 3



Deadly force series: Day 4



Read the district-by-district guide to legislative candidates


District 25 race called battleground
Maine Clean Election incumbent now a 'sitting duck'
Election 2012: Both sides spending lavishly on Maine's state races

150th Anniversary


Page Turners
Time Machines
Yesterday's News
Selling Points

Virtual Schools in Maine

Documents expose the flow of money and influence from corporations that stand to profit from state leaders' efforts to expand and deregulate digital education.

Search Portland's 2011 City Payroll


Portland fire department takes heat for $2 million in overtime

Dining Guide



What Maine Thinks: Poll results


July Poll: 57 percent would back same-sex marriage
Romney faces NAACP, booed for hitting 'Obamacare'
July Poll: For Maine genders, views similar but not equal
July Poll: A third of Mainers losing ground financially

Beach to Beacon 10K race coverage


Someone who inspires her will run with race founder
Beach to Beacon: It's a race, but a whole lot more for center

Lobster Business in Maine



Four Freedoms



Searchable database: 2012 Maine Moose Lottery Winners


Maine's moose lottery: Now they're in the hunt
On eve of lottery, moose level high

Primary Elections Results



2012 Maine High School Graduations



2012 Forty under 40



Investigative series: Painkillers in Maine


News staffers receive award for drug series

Maine Prom '12: Send in your pics!



Supreme Court Health Care Ruling


Health care ruling: Statements from Maine’s delegation

Special Investigative Report: Anatomy of a Recall


Feds move to improve safety rules for ground beef
Still no fix a year after salmonella outbreak
Augusta rally will protest food safety problems
USDA proposes rule calling for improved ground-beef tracking
FDA targets farms, food companies in safety rule changes
Mainer files suit in tainted Hannaford beef case

Search: State worker pensions



Portland Weather 2011



2012 Senate Primary



Portland Interactive Crime Map



Voters' Guide: State Legislature



Fate of the Union



Bruce Roberts Toy Fund



Remembering 9/11



Peeper pleasers Several photos included in this story

Experts agree – this should be a good fall for foliage fans.

Sea Dogs



Map: Apple picking



Maine Open Lighthouse Day



2011 Beach to Beacon



Portland Mayoral Race



2011 Reader's Choice



Portland's Mayoral Race 2011



Portland's Mayoral Election 2011 Full Coverage



2011 High School Graduations



Prom Photos



The death of Osama bin Laden



2011 High School Graduations



Portland Weather 2009



SEND US YOUR PROM PHOTOS



Pothole Map



Literary Map of Maine


A real page turner

Welfare in Maine



Sugarloaf Chairlift Derailment



Maine 2010 Election Round-Up



Maine Medical Marijuana



Beach to Beacon: Search Results, Read Coverage



Maine Holiday Craft Fairs



This year's Maine apple crop offers early pickin's Several photos included in this story

A fluke May frost that played havoc with some orchards and left others mostly unscathed figures prominently in Maine's 2010 apple season. As they assess the current harvest, growers agree the operative word now is EARLY.
Chef matches apples, pork in a very happy marriage

Did this man kill Sarah Cherry?

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?

Great Sledding Spots!



Governor's Race



Bill Nemitz reports from Afghanistan



Soldier's Toll: Maine - Afghanistan and Iraq



A Dash of Diva



Share your prom photos!



Moving forward from 390 Congress: A Look Back



Portland's public art



State House



Scene & Heard



Haiti Quake: Mainers respond to catastrophe



Maine Prom Storify



Ten Years Later: A look back at 9/11