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Lawmakers have unanimously voted to advance a bill allocating additional state funding for homeless shelters, explicitly reserving a portion of…
U.S. Sen. Susan Collins is urging federal bureaucrats to avoid reclassifying the potato as a vegetable, a move which could…
The Permanent Commission on the Status of Racial, Indigenous, & Tribal Populations (PCRITP), which was established in 2019 by the…
A British court ruled that Wikileaks founder and journalist Julian Assange cannot be extradited to face espionage charges in the…
Lawmakers in Augusta have advanced a bill that aims to prevent repeat offenders from being charged with felony theft if…
The Maine State Housing Authority will be financing the construction of 105 new affordable rental units in several towns throughout…
The Motel 6 in Portland has lost the lodging licenses for all but five of its rooms due to health…
Former President Donald Trump has weighed in on the 2024 Republican primary race in Maine’s 2nd Congressional District, throwing his…
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) has signed into a law a bill that prohibits minors under 14 years old in…
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday morning in a case concerning the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) recently loosened…
The recent destruction of a massive solar farm in Texas highlights the fragility of “renewable” energy infrastructure, and has raised…
A suspect in a child sexual assault case in Strong died after crashing head-on into a tree during a police…
A Moscow court on Tuesday again extended the pretrial detention for Bowdoin graduate and Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich…
A 19-year-old man allegedly pulled a knife on employees while stealing alcohol from the Bangor Walmart over the weekend, police…
Maine lawmakers have approved along party lines a bill to implement new regulations on the fees that landlords can impose…
If surging crime, unprecedented levels of illegal immigration, and a deadly fentanyl epidemic wasn’t enough, now we can add a…
Seven Chinese nationals have been indicted on federal charges for their alleged involvement in a hacking group that spent over…
A proposal requiring legislative oversight for agency rulemaking related to vehicle emissions standards — including the establishment of “zero-emission requirements”…
Linda Lorraine Bean, the granddaughter of L.L. Bean founder Leon Leonwood Bean and a force in Maine’s business and political…
Democratic Maine Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (CD-1) issued a statement Friday claiming that U.S. aid to Israel is illegal due to…
Maine lawmakers have approved a resolution establishing a Commission to study the extent to which housing voucher recipients in the…
On Thursday, the New York Post released a video showing a mob of illegal immigrants storming past border fencing and…
Independent Maine Sen. Angus King, alongside six of his colleagues, has introduced a bill that would allow U.S. Immigration and…
The South Portland City Council on Tuesday approved an order to spend nearly $15,000 to lease three new electric vehicles…
A Maine man has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for his role in a multistate methamphetamine trafficking conspiracy…
Amid concerns that cracks are appearing in the U.S. economy, U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell is reassuring Americans that…
The Maine Legislature’s Housing Committee has recommended that lawmakers reject a bill requiring the government to convene a stakeholder group…
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), alongside 16 states — including Maine — have filed a civil anti-trust lawsuit against…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills announced Wednesday that she has introduced legislation that would establish a minimum hourly wage for Maine…
Two men from the New York City metro area were charged Wednesday with burglarizing two Maine post offices and robbing…
The Maine Board of Environmental Protection (BEP) has officially rejected the controversial electric vehicle (EV) mandate that has been under…
A Westbrook man was sentenced to 18 years in prison Tuesday for sexually abusing a child for the purpose of…
A Brazilian illegal immigrant who fled to the U.S. after breaking out of prison in his own country for an…
Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey announced Tuesday that he has filed a civil rights complaint against a Harpswell father and…
New Hampshire has charged someone with murder in the death of an unborn child for the first time in the…
A 21-year-old Bangor woman is facing multiple felony drug trafficking charges after a two-month Maine Drug Enforcement Agency (MDEA) led…
Lawmakers in Augusta are considering a bill that has the potential to change how medical debt is handled in the…
Maine House Speaker Rachel Talbot Ross (D-Portland) has introduced a bill that would establish a state “social equity program” and…
The Maine Democratic Socialists of America (Maine DSA) and the Maine Direct Action Solidarity Fund has launched a crowdfunding campaign…
U.S. Senator from Maine Angus King (I) has joined a group of his Democrat colleagues in sponsoring the “Right to…
During a contentious interview with X CEO Elon Musk, former CNN reporter Don Lemon repeatedly denied that Diversity, Equity, and…
A billionaire Chinese national pleaded guilty Monday to a straw-donor campaign contribution scheme by which he made more than $10,000…
A Lewiston man is facing up to five years in prison after pleading guilty to sending racist death threats to…
Maine Lobstermen have been spared — for now — from the potentially devastating effects of offshore wind turbine development on…
The U.S. Supreme court ruled on Friday that members of the public can sue government officials who block them on…
Maine’s Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) has been providing worst-in-the-nation child welfare services, regularly making headlines for tragic…
The United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday morning in the case against a number of federal officials alleging…
The Biden administration released a map Friday of a two million acre Wind Energy Area (WEA) in the Gulf of…
Left-wing media outlets including MSNBC and the Associated Press, alongside the Biden Administration, have accused former President Donald Trump of…
The conservative group Courage is a Habit is continuing its fight against LD 227, the so-called “transgender trafficking” bill, which…
U.S. General revealed that thousands of drones have been crossing the southern border along with the millions of illegal immigrants…
A Portland man is facing 12 criminal charges after leading police on a 20-minute chase Sunday afternoon. Portland Police said…
In response to a rise in climate anxiety, particularly among young voters, politicians have made numerous “climate pledges” to transition…
The Independent Commission tasked by Maine Gov. Janet Mills with investigating the facts and circumstances surrounding the Oct. 25, 2023…
The death of Oklahoma high schooler who identified as “non-binary” caused an uproar among left-wing activists and media, with many…
A Bangor man who was found with drug paraphernalia and a firearm during a traffic stop pleaded guilty Friday in…
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Florida) announced on Friday that Florida Fish and Wildlife Officers apprehended a ship of Haitian potentially illegal…
A Portland High School student brought a BB gun to school Thursday morning, prompting a response from police, according to…
A Haitian migrant living in a hotel being used as an emergency shelter in Rockland, Massachusetts is being held without…
A California man has pleaded guilty to charges related to his role in a methamphetamine trafficking conspiracy in Downeast Maine.…
A California man is facing multiple felony drug trafficking charges after a months-long investigation and sting operation led to the…
Michael Friedland of the Lumbery — a small business located in the Cape Elizabeth town center on Route 77 that…
A group of residents in a crime-ridden San Francisco neighborhood have filed a federal lawsuit accusing the city of not…
Washington, D.C. – Key U.S. intelligence officials have faced a series of probing questions from lawmakers this week, including Maine…
All four members of Maine’s Congressional delegation have reached out to the federal government for an update regarding a proposed…
Democratic U.S. Rep. Jared Golden (ME-02) sent a letter Wednesday requesting that congressional appropriations leaders not include a pay raise…
A Bangor man has been sentenced to 14 years in prison after he was caught by police in possession of…
In an unexpected development that could spell ongoing challenges for the U.S. economy, the U.S. Labor Department reported Thursday that…
The Sanford Police Department are calling on the public to carry Narcan — an opioid overdose reversal drug — and…
The U.S. House of Representatives has voted in favor of a bill that would ban TikTok from all devices in…
U.S. Senators Angus King (I-Maine) and John Cornyn (R-Texas) sent a letter to Biden administration officials Tuesday calling for additional…
Lewiston Police announced Wednesday that an arrest has been made in connection to a robbery of a local convenience store.…
A second effort to impeach Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows (D) for her December decision attempting to remove former…
Former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden each secured their party nominations on Tuesday, following four state primaries. [RELATED:…
In order to preempt a potential influx of illegal immigration from Haiti as the island nation devolves into chaos and…
The Legislature is considering a bill that would give state lawmakers the final say on the Maine Board of Environmental…
Lawmakers in Augusta are considering the repeal of a 2005 law placing limits on the degree to which municipalities can…
Health care providers in the United Kingdom will stop routinely prescribing puberty blockers to minors diagnosed with gender dysphoria, the…
Maine is the 13th most federally dependent state in the nation, according to a recent study published by WalletHub’s financial…
John Barnett, longtime employee of aircraft manufacturer Boeing who had turned whistleblower, was found dead from a gunshot wound in…
Four California-based individuals have been sentenced in federal court in Boston for their roles in running a large-scale marriage fraud…
The last of four Dick’s Sporting Goods locations in Maine has stopped the sale of all firearms in the state,…
An unlawfully present Nigerian national who was convicted of indecent solicitation of a Rhode Island child after overstaying a tourist…
President Joe Biden has ordered the U.S. military to construct a temporary pier in the Mediterranean Sea in order to…
U.S. Senators from Maine Susan Collins (R) and Angus King (I) are backing a bill that would require automakers to…
Following a highly divisive State of the Union Speech (SOTU), which saw President Joe Biden comparing former President Donald Trump…
President Joe Biden apologized for calling the illegal immigrant who is suspected of murdering 22-year-old nursing student Laken Riley “an…
The Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) announced Friday that it received more than $2 million in federal…
As the debate over transgender school policies and sex-change procedures for minors has played out nationwide and in Maine, a…
Maine lawmakers have approved a bill prohibiting many entities — including schools, grocery stores, and small businesses — from sending…
Cumberland County District Attorney Jackie Sartoris joined Matt Gagnon on WGAN Morning News Monday to defend her recently adopted policy…
Later this month Maine Regional School Unit 22 (RSU 22) is set to consider various options for “restructuring” the district’s…
U.S. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) questioned FBI Director Christopher Wray on Monday about what his agency is doing to help…
Portland Police announced Monday that over the past seven days they have seized a total of 37.7 grams of fentanyl…
A Maine teacher was arrested Thursday following information that she had been engaging in inappropriate sexual relations with a minor…
On Friday, the Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office announced the arrest of a Brewer man who was a 10-year sex offender…
Lewiston Police announced Sunday that a 14-year-old male has been charged in connection to a weekend shooting on Pierce Street.…
Maine’s Permanent Commission on the Status of Racial, Indigenous, & Tribal Populations (PCRITP) has determined that no conflict of interest…
A massive $2 billion energy transmission line through New England has been scrapped after the company undertaking the project deemed…