Press Herald - Eliot Cutler, former two-time candidate for Maine governor, has been arrested three times in the past six months for allegedly violating the terms of his release. Convicted for possessing child pornography, Cutler told police during his most recent arrest he "has had this problem for 65 years." But scholars doubt whether "porn addiction" actually exists.
A Portland landlord is claiming that because he lived in the basement of his three-unit building on State Street, he was exempt from the city’s rent control ordinance and therefore justified when he dramatically raised the rents. But the city’s rent board disagrees, determining last week that Atanas Dinkov should have to pay back roughly $30,000 in overcharged rent.
Late Rev. Jesse Jackson came to Maine for presidential campaign, conference
Maine CDC announces 4 new measles cases
CMP bills could drop slightly this summer
Filmmaker Frederick Wiseman, a longtime Maine resident, dies at 96
Early Brunswick school budget draft calls for 5% tax hike
Press Herald - Recent statistics show that Maine is the oldest state, with a median age of 45.1 and with 23.5% of the population over 65. The over-65 workforce is 8.2%, the highest in the country. The statistical explanation is that more residents are aging into the over-65 cohort than just young people leaving or a decline in the working age population. Maine is the only state where residents over age 65 outnumber those under age 18.
The Maine Credit Unions’ Campaign for Ending Hunger reported raising $1,496,116.71 in food and monetary donations during its most recent fundraising year. The total represents a new milestone for the campaign, which marked its 35th year of fighting hunger in communities across Maine in 2025.... At the beginning of 2025, credit unions set a goal of raising $1.35 million in honor of the campaign’s 35th year fighting hunger—and surpassed it together. That shared success enabled the campaign to support 298 organizations statewide, reinforcing the vital hunger-relief work taking place in Maine communities.