By Setareh Jalali After more than a year of construction, Portland’s first roundabout will be open to traffic today in Deering Center. The area near the University of Maine School of Law used to be a six-way intersection with long waits and…
On Aug. 4 and 5, one of the most innovative and ambitious public artworks will bring its beauty to Maine with Remote Theatre Project’s “A Message from Far Away." The events, spread over two days, are a collaboration with Good Change Theatre’s “The Walk,”…
By Andrew Rice, Sun Journal LEWISTON — With the election just a few months away, a rift has formed within Lewiston’s Democratic Committee. City Councilor Safiya Khalid, who had been the local party’s vice chair since 2017, took to social…
By Apoorva Mandavilli, New York Times A wedding in Oklahoma leads to 15 vaccinated guests becoming infected with the coronavirus. Raucous Fourth of July celebrations disperse the virus from Provincetown, Mass., to dozens of places across the country, sometimes carried…
By Setareh Jalali Japanese government officials announced Thursday morning that Tokyo will be placed under another COVID-19 state of emergency, just 2 weeks ahead of the Olympics Opening Ceremony. This will be Tokyo’s fourth state of emergency since the pandemic began. …
By Maziar Motamedi, Al Jazeera Tehran, Iran – Conservative judiciary head Ebrahim Raisi has been elected Iran’s eighth president, the interior ministry has announced. The ministry confirmed on Saturday that Raisi won 61.95 percent of the vote on a voter turnout…
By Scott Thistle, Portland Press Herald AUGUSTA — The Maine Senate on Thursday night voted down a bill to form a consumer-owned utility to buy the assets of Central Maine Power and Versant Power, reversing the results of initial Senate…
By Setareh Jalali After a decade of controversy and legal battles, the developers behind the 1,179-mile Keystone XL oil pipeline announced Wednesday that it’s officially terminating the project. The pipeline would have carried more than 800,000 barrels (35 million gallons) a day of petroleum from land-locked Alberta,…
By Setareh Jalali 23-year-old prominent activists Muna al-Kurd and Mohammed al-Kurd were released from custody yesterday after they were held by Israeli police for several hours. Nabil al-Kurd, father of the twins, said Muna was arrested after police raided their…
By Setareh Jalali Following the shark attack last summer that left one woman dead, Maine state beaches and coastal parks announced that this summer they will display a flag to warn beachgoers if a shark has been spotted nearby. The attack last…