Scarborough public school officials sent out a letter to the community this week warning of potential threats from Nihilistic Violent Extremist (NVE) groups that target children online. According to the email, sent Thursday by RSU…

As the saying goes “you can take the boy out of the country but you can’t take the country out of the boy.” Terry Moran, the ABC News reporter suspended Sunday for bashing a top…

He who pays the piper calls the tune, the old saying goes. Looking closely at the most recent dust-up under the dome, the role of money in Maine politics explains why Democrats have stubbornly resisted…

In Augusta these days, keeping up with the latest legislative head-scratchers can be a full-time job. But one proposal stands out for its absurdity: a bill to ban small, travel-size shampoo bottles in hotels. Yes,…

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South Portland residents are set to vote on a proposed $73 million school budget next Tuesday amidst concerns over public school layoffs and property tax hikes. Although there has been discussion of proposed athletic complex…

Maine’s largest paper buried the lead in announcing the retirement of a top veteran editor whose exit comes in the wake of recent staff cutbacks. To wit, John Richardson’s position as one of two managing…

Maine’s House and Senate have been going back and forth for the past couple of weeks over whether or not to adopt a bill aiming to reduce friction within the state’ public school choice program…

House lawmakers engaged in a lengthy and impassioned debate Thursday morning over a bill requiring a photo ID to cast a ballot in the State of Maine before ultimately killing it along partisan lines. This…

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Long Creek Youth Development Center in South Portland, Maine’s only juvenile correctional facility, will be spending nearly $30,000 to purchase audio equipment for juvenile offenders to be taught poetry and rap music, a recent disclosure…

The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Maine CDC) on Friday issued a press release celebrating a record high level of vaccination among the state’s school-age children. According to the newly published Maine Annual…

The Maine State Legislature has unanimously approved a bill increasing the number of children for whom childcare providers may be responsible before they are required to be licensed. Under current state law, providers may only…

A Guatemalan national was sentenced in a Maine federal court on Wednesday for illegal reentry into the U.S. after a prior deportation after he was stopped by police for having snow on the roof of…

The internet has blown up with speculators discussing how two Mount Katahdin hikers died amid obvious warning signs to abandon the risky mission. By all accounts the most likely reason Esther Keiderling, 28, and her…

President Donald Trump and Elon Musk, once allies, clashed publicly Thursday in a bitter dispute over the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” a sweeping Republican legislative package central to Trump’s second-term agenda. The escalating war…

President Donald Trump (R) invoked federal law to block foreign students from entering the country to study at Harvard University in an executive order signed Wednesday, citing national security concerns and alleging a lack of…

The Democrats of the Kennebunks and Arundel (DKA) is looking to form a “Rapid Response Team” in case of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids in their towns, their organizing communications indicate. The Democratic…

An Egyptian national with alleged ties to a terrorist organization was arrested by U.S. Border Patrol (USBP) agents in Pittsfield last week. According to USBP Houlton Sector, on Friday, May 30, agents with the Rangeley…

Advocates of gun control measures often speak of a “cooling off period” — usually in reference to a delay on firearm purchases — but after a heated debate on the Maine State Senate floor Wednesday…

The Maine House passed a net neutrality bill Wednesday with bipartisan support, as three Republican lawmakers crossed party lines to vote in favor of the measure. The bill, An Act to Establish Net Neutrality, now…

The Maine State Legislature’s Judiciary Committee came to three different recommendations on Wednesday to three bills prescribing how state and local authorities should interact with federal immigration enforcement agencies. One bill, aimed at streamlining cooperation…

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published a list of jurisdictions with “sanctuary” policies that obstruct immigration enforcement late last week, including three in Maine, before removing the list on Sunday following backlash from…