Portland Press Herald

Even though Maine is known as a cold weather state, in recent years, hundreds of people have shown up in emergency rooms for heat-related illness. To offer relief, cooling centers are opening at libraries, fire stations, and community centers.

Extremely dangerous heat is still unusual in Maine — but emergency officials across the state are already planning for a future where they’re responding to temperature spikes as silent natural disasters.

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

A long-awaited review of the Lewiston mass shooter conducted by Water Reed National Military Center may contain a second opinion on what led to his violent behavior — but heavy redactions make it impossible to know.

Experts say the gunman’s brain tissue points to traumatic injury ‘likely’ caused by blasts in the line of duty; the Army disagrees, but is taking steps to limit exposure.

Maine’s law is a compromise rooted in a tradition of gun rights that crosses the political aisle.

18 people were killed, 13 were shot and survived, and many others witnessed the deadliest attack in Maine’s history. A year later, we look at how some have navigated the aftermath.

The Maine Resiliency Center opened just 19 days after the mass shooting and has become a critical resource for more than 400 people. Some are trying to keep it open permanently.

Like nearly every other state, Maine can compel those with serious mental illnesses to comply with outpatient treatment. But the law is rarely used. Some fear it threatens to return America to a dark era of institutionalization.

Bill Nemitz, a longtime columnist for the Portland Press Herald, is leading a group that hopes to buy the newspaper's parent organization — which owns many other daily and weekly newspapers around the state — and run it as a nonprofit.