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Kaelah Oberdorf, 24, had a medication abortion in 2023 when she discovered she was pregnant while still recovering from the debilitating postpartum depression she had after giving birth to her daughter. Oberdorf said she was in an emotionally abusive relationship and didn't want her daughter or herself to be tied to that partner for life. (Courtesy of Kaelah Oberdorf)Carrie Frail was in the process of leaving an abusive relationship when she discovered she was pregnant. Her partner told her he c

Sen. Tim Mathern, right, D-Fargo, Sen. Ryan Braunberger, center, D-Fargo, and Rep. Zac Ista, left, D-Grand Forks, hold a press conference at the Capitol on April 28, 2025. Ista and Mathern have requested an attorney general's opinion on how to fill the ballot vacancy created by the death of Rep. Liz Conmy, D-Fargo. (Photo by Michael Achterling/North Dakota Monitor)Democrat lawmakers are asking the North Dakota attorney general to weigh in on an election question after the death of a state lawmak

The School Board voted to close an elementary school and cut nearly 80 positions earlier this year to shave about $8.4 million from its budget to keep the tax increase to 6%.

Montanans stand in line to register to vote at the Lewis and Clark County Elections Office on Nov. 5, 2024. (Photo by Blair Miller/Daily Montanan)The U.S. Senate rejected the SAVE America Act on Thursday, dealing a blow to President Donald Trump’s efforts to impose voting restrictions ahead of the November midterm elections. Senators voted 48-50 against advancing an amendment that would have incorporated Trump’s top legislative priority into an immigration-focused spending bill. The vote offered

The exterior of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office in Johnston. (Photo by Christopher Shea/Rhode Island Current)Rhode Island’s immigration service nonprofits are celebrating a decision by a federal judge Friday to toss the administration’s policy that froze permits and other benefits for applicants from nearly 40 countries subject to travel bans. The 135-page ruling by U.S. District Court Chief Judge John McConnell Jr. came in response to a March lawsuit led by two Provid

Officials have so far not agreed on what — if anything — needs to change to the city's policy requiring large housing projects to have at least 25% affordable units, which developers say is stifling production.

Press Herald sports writers nominate high school athletes from the prior week's games. Readers vote for their top choice and the winner will be announced in the newspapers the following Sunday all season long!

A federal judge on June 5, 2026, struck down several Trump administration policies that halted processing for asylum-seekers following a shooting in Washington, D.C. of two members of the National Guard deployed to the nation's capital. In this photo, tourists pass by members of the guard stationed outside Union Station in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 18, 2025. (Photo by Jane Norman/States Newsroom)WASHINGTON — A federal judge in Rhode Island Friday struck down several Trump administration policies

Montanans stand in line to register to vote at the Lewis and Clark County Elections Office on Nov. 5, 2024. (Photo by Blair Miller/Daily Montanan)The U.S. Senate rejected the SAVE America Act on Thursday, dealing a blow to President Donald Trump’s efforts to impose voting restrictions ahead of the November midterm elections. Senators voted 48-50 against advancing an amendment that would have incorporated Trump’s top legislative priority into an immigration-focused spending bill. The vote offered

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In accusing three Democratic candidates of “cronyism” and “gaming” the system, by sharing their preferences with each other, Moriah Freeman (“In Maine governor’s race, connection is preferable to cronyism,” May 31) mistakes the point of ranked-choice voting (RCV). The aim of RCV is to ensure that the winner has the support of a majority of […]

I noticed that in a recent Associated Press report about Single Gen Z women homeowners (“Single Gen Z women outpace Gen Z men to homeownership despite overall decline in first-time buyers,” May 20), two out of the two examples of Gen Z women homeowners were content creators.  Guess I’d better start a Twitch. Erik SvetlichnyCape […]

I have been listening to and watching CBS News for decades and associate it with legendary broadcasters like Walter Cronkite and Mike Wallace. I was saddened when its new leadership eliminated the CBS Radio news broadcasts. Today, I’m outraged by its treatment of “60 Minutes,” the most prestigious, respected news show on television. New management […]

South Dakota Gov. Larry Rhoden, left, and Aberdeen businessman Toby Doeden are candidates in a July 28 runoff for the Republican nomination for governor. (Photos by South Dakota Searchlight) Searchlight Report is a podcast from South Dakota Searchlight. Reporter and host Meghan O’Brien works with other Searchlight journalists to take listeners inside politics and policy in The Mount Rushmore State.    Longtime South Dakota journalist and Sea

Lyndsey Fifield made the most explosive claims about Platner in Thursday's New York Times story.

The 75-year-man eventually surrendered to police after officers were called for a domestic disturbance on Caly Hollow Road.

Critics say she's a turncoat. Friends say she's just speaking her mind.

I urge Democrats and independents participating in the June 9 Democratic primary to rank Joe Baldacci first as a candidate for U.S. representative in Maine’s 2nd Congressional District. His knowledge of the issues is detailed and substantive and second to none. In talking to him and seeing his messaging, it is clear Baldacci is motivated […]

This commentary is by Justin Neuman, who is a professor of literary studies at Eugene Lang College, The New School.   Everyone who makes the drive north on Interstate 91 knows the feeling. The chaos of Connecticut, funneled into the inevitable snarl at the hard turn in Springfield, Massachusetts — and then the hills appear, the billboards vanish, the traffic melts away, and you can breathe. You’re home. When I was growing up in Vermont, I looked at the Massachusetts, Connecticut and