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Editors’ picks: The Press Herald’s best stories of 2024
Assessments of renting, dining and living in an increasingly expensive Portland. Remembrances of young Mainers whose lives were cut tragically short. Complex disputes over parking and pesticides. And views of the changing shape of our state, in more ways than one. Explore these and other stories representing our best journalism of 2024, based on articles that garnered some of the highest engaged time online from our readers.
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viaIn October 2023, a local Army Reservist opened fire inside two family businesses in Lewiston. Within minutes, 18 were killed and 13 wounded – and the largely pro-gun state was left reeling. The Portland Press Herald and Maine Public examined the failures and aftermath. -
The state's ongoing housing crisis wasn't caused by one thing, but it has put homeownership out of reach for an entire generation and created ripple effects on the broader economy.
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Maine sea levels are projected to rise between 1.1 and 3.2 feet by 2050 and between 3 and 9.3 feet by 2100, depending on how successful and quick we are at curbing global emissions rates.
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Roger and Jeanie Cannell spent years moving between a van at a highway service plaza, shelters and hotels. They finally found a place to call home. Then he got sicker.
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An unusual case in Midcoast Maine, which involves feuding landowners and a town-owned beach, is still unfolding. It all started with a pesticide.
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Two beachfront condos have argued for more than 30 years over who has the right to a single parking spot.
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Julia Gagnon, a senior at the University of Southern Maine, wanted to be on the internationally televised talent show as a way of sharing something with her birth mother in Guatemala. She'll make her first appearance Sunday.
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For a tennis standout with a promising future, the pandemic did more than strip Grace Campanella of her last high school season and her momentum. Her darkest hour came last month in Wells.
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Gibson Harnett was competitive by nature, but showed great compassion and empathy as he battled a rare, incurable sarcoma.
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Autumn Cleveland was found Monday afternoon, just a few days after she left her hometown in Virginia to move north.
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The cost of groceries has skyrocketed in recent years, but the price of food is only one factor attracting patrons to the big players in Maine's shifting supermarket landscape.
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The 500-acre, 13th-generation family operation in Westbrook wants to preserve the farmland and forest it has cultivated and harvested since 1720, but some of its woodland lies in the path of the Maine Turnpike Authority's proposed 4-lane highway.
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The city and social service organizations are struggling to help dozens of individuals sleeping outside who can't or won't stay in a shelter, but the mayor says Portland can only do so much.
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Stephen Jenkins said his wife went 4 days without her prescribed blood-thinners after her doctor and pharmacists failed to communicate.
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Jamie Whittemore's suit, which her attorneys believe is the first of its kind in the nation, says drugs to treat obesity must be covered because the Affordable Care Act prohibits discrimination based on a disability.
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More than a half-dozen venues have closed in Portland and Yarmouth in the last month, many citing staffing challenges and rising expenses.
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The 4-year-old restaurant is up for sale amid financial difficulties, according to its owners. Some staff members say they've had multiple paychecks bounce in recent months.
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Press Herald restaurant critic Andrew Ross’ picks for the area’s top restaurants, coffee shops, bakeries and bars.
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With the tourist throngs gone, winter is the perfect time for Mainers to enjoy the area's most in-demand restaurants. Chefs and owners at 10 such venues offer insider intel for the best days and times to visit.
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Is there a right way to beat a team by 50 points or more? Such lopsided scores have been frequent this winter.
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But their landlords say it's not that simple – they just want to be able to come home. Advocates of the rent control ordinance say it's an important test case of enforcement over the law.
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Travis Carter has 1 of the 2 Tesla trucks in all of Maine. He says he's shy and doesn't like the limelight – but when he's behind the wheel, all eyes are on him.
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A plan to redesign the four-lane thoroughfare in Portland – a vestige of 1960s urban renewal – has been in the works for nearly two decades. It may finally be gaining momentum.