Kelley Bouchard is a business reporter at the Portland Press Herald who writes about tourism, transportation, agriculture, supermarkets, forest industries, sustainability, minority-owned businesses and other subjects. Her wider experience includes municipal and state government, education, immigration, history, human rights, aging issues, the environment and the housing crisis. A Maine native and University of Maine graduate, she was a college intern for two summers at the former Lewiston Evening Journal. She previously worked at the Ipswich Chronicle, Beverly Times and Salem Evening News in Massachusetts. Favorite pastimes include gardening, cooking for family and friends, streaming foreign TV series and kayaking at camp.
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PublishedJune 28, 2022
Gorham man pleads guilty to participating in Capitol riot
Nicholas P. Hendrix admitted to ‘willfully and knowingly’ entering the Capitol through the Rotunda door with a crowd of rioters on the afternoon of Jan. 6, 2021.
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PublishedJune 12, 2022
Blessing of the Fleet kicks off summer boating season
Portland’s Catholic parishes hope to make the gathering a yearly event, as it is in other maritime communities.
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PublishedJune 3, 2022
Cape Elizabeth, South Portland students walk out of class to protest gun violence
The protest march was organized by students and parents in the wake of last week’s school shooting in Texas.
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PublishedMay 27, 2022
Teen arrested at Falmouth High School after gun threat
Police have charged a 15-year-old boy with terrorizing after a threat was posted on social media.
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PublishedMay 27, 2022
Gray-New Gloucester school evacuated after bomb threat
Bomb-detecting dogs assisted in the search for explosive devices but none were found.
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PublishedMay 17, 2022
South Portland considers gender-neutral bans on nude swimming, public indecency
The City Council is poised to update ordinance language as part of a larger effort to promote equity and inclusion.
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PublishedMay 16, 2022
After 25 years, Abyssinian Meeting House restoration is sprinting toward completion
A recent $1.7 million federal budget allocation should make it possible to complete the decades-long project well before the building’s 200th anniversary.
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PublishedMay 14, 2022
Downeaster, SUV collide near Woodfords Corner in Portland
The crash happened shortly after 4 p.m., snarling traffic in the area for over an hour.
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PublishedMay 11, 2022
Redbank Village rent hikes spark fear and outrage among residents, officials
The 500-unit cluster of duplexes in South Portland has been purchased by a California-based company that is raising monthly rents as much as $598, tenants say.
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PublishedMay 3, 2022
Some southern Maine Republicans divided on party’s new platform
While some are embracing the socially conservative changes, others worry that the shift will drive people away and backfire at the polls.
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