portland press

Maine’s giant spinning ice disk is moving again thanks to one man’s efforts. The formation in the Presumpscot River in Greater Portland stopped rotating Wednesday, two days after a video of its mesmerizing movement was widely shared on social media. The roughly 100-yard (91-meter) wide disk became lodged against the river’s edge, preventing it from moving. Andrew Sims says he...

Check out this drone video of the giant ice disk in Westbrook, Maine, that makes it look like the moon has landed. (Credit: City of Westbrook)

A huge floating ice disk has been found rotating in the Presumpscot River in Westbrook, Maine. Tina Radel, a city employee, told WCSH that birds have been sitting on the disk as it slowly turns counterclockwise. She called the disk a natural phenomenon.

A Maine man credited with saving the lives of kids before he was killed by a hit-and-run driver at a Babe Ruth baseball game in Sanford was himself involved in a fatal hit and run in New York nearly 50 years ago.

A Republican Maine House candidate now has an opponent after he used Twitter to attack two students who survived a shooting at a Florida high school, calling one of them a “skinhead lesbian” and the other a “bald-faced liar.”

A Maine man is attending his 52nd Super Bowl this Sunday, along with other members of the ‘Never Miss a Super Bowl Club.’

A marine biologist believes a humpback whale shielded her from a 15-foot tiger shark in the South Pacific. Nan Hauser said she didn’t understand the actions of the 25-ton whale that she met face-to-face in the Cook Islands. Then she saw the shark. She’s heard on a video telling the massive mammal, “I love you, too!” The encounter took place...