The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (DIFW) moved quickly on Friday to rescind a policy that the Trump Administration flagged as a discriminatory violation of federal civil rights rules, according to emails obtained…

Rep. Laurel Libby (R-Auburn) may face daunting challenges from the majority of Maine’s legislature, and even the state’s attorney general, but her appeal for emergency review by the U.S. Supreme Court drew the support of…

The Trump Administration has notified the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (MDIFW) that it will suspend all grant funding via the U.S. Department of the Interior until the state agency ends a policy…

Lawmakers in Augusta considered a series of bills Thursday afternoon pertaining to the regulation of Maine’s sometimes corybantic cannabis industry. During the public hearing that morning, the Veterans and Legal Affairs Committee heard testimony on…

Biddeford High School was put on lockdown Friday morning after a reported threat that led to the arrest of an armed man outside of the school, according to authorities. At approximately 9 a.m., a student…

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) announced on Thursday that the U.S. Department of Justice has selected Lewiston’s Maine Resiliency Center to receive an $8,526,240 grant to aid in their work for the victims of the October…

Detectives from the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office arrested three people early Friday morning after they were allegedly caught tearing down overhead Consolidated Communications cables for the copper in the wires, which presumably they would have…

Maine’s Regional School Unit (RSU) 24 school board voted on Tuesday to join the Hodgdon School Board in defying Gov. Janet Mills (D-Maine) by revoking its transgender policies, including those allowing students to use bathrooms…

Maine State Attorney General Aaron Frey filed an 11-page response on Thursday to the civil action the U.S. Department of Justice filed against the state three weeks ago with the U.S. District Court in Portland.…

U.S. Border Patrol agents in Maine have arrested over a dozen illegal aliens from Ecuador in recent weeks as a result of conducting vehicle stops. On Wednesday, April 23, Houlton Sector Border Patrol agents encountered…

A man convicted of murder in Brazil who illegally entered and hid out in the United States under the Biden administration was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Massachusetts last week.…

Second District Congressman Jared Golden (D-ME) is taking friendly fire from a national group that commits itself to resisting the Trump agenda and fighting for progressive politics, which has for months been assailing the maverick…

An ex-Portland Press Herald scribe who calls Trump “an authoritarian threat” will soon be joined on a Maine stage by a co-conspirator. After all, Colin Woodard and Rachel Maddow were already joined – at the…

Augusta hosted a showdown on May 7 between proponents of measures to restore girls’ school sports to biological females and those who want Maine’s current policy allowing those born male but who identify as female…

U.S. Sen. Susan Collins (R) on Thursday issued her strongest call yet for President Donald Trump and federal law enforcement agencies to dismantle the vast networks of illegal drug and human smuggling operations that have…

Cannabis took center stage in Augusta Thursday afternoon before the Legislature’s Veterans and Legal Affairs Committee, which heard public testimony on eight bills aiming to amend the state’s marijuana regulations. While many of the bills…

The Legislature’s Transportation Committee voted unanimously Thursday morning to reject a bill proposed by Rep. Laurel Libby (R-Auburn) intended to block Secretary of State Shenna Bellows from issuing Real IDs to Mainers. Irrespective of Rep.…

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Biddeford’s hard work to usher in an urban renaissance has been challenged of late by one family where murder appears to run in the bloodlines. In this still-randy mill city, the sister of a guy…

When Wells town officials tried to defend being the only Maine town working with federal immigration officials, guess who quickly invoked “religion.” None other than a woman using the vague title of “bishop” in a…

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Lewiston Police on Monday night responded to a shots fired incident at an affordable housing complex that witnesses described as a drive-by shooting at a vehicle. Police say they responded to the area of Rideout…

If the aging members of Congress are too old to be in touch or effective, they have a role model – Grampa Joe. Former president Joe Biden reminded Americans of his infirmity this week when…