AUGUSTA, Maine – Maine Republicans on Wednesday tore into Democrats over what they described as a late-night budget dump that…
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Lewiston – Maine. Bobbi Nichols, a survivor of the Lewiston mass shooting who lost her sister, Tricia Asselin, in the…
AUGUSTA – Republican lawmakers are intensifying criticism of Maineās Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) following new developments in…
The Maine Supreme Court is in unanimous agreement that expanding the use of ranked-choice voting to include all state elections…
By Carroll Conley About six years ago, while leading the Christian Civic League, I was approached multiple times by trusted…
AUGUSTA, Maine – Democratic gubernatorial candidate Hannah Pingree took to social media Wednesday to weigh in on the child labor enforcement case…
The United States Supreme Court has declined to hear a Maine mom’s case against a Damariscotta school in which she…
Mainers bear the fifth highest overall tax burden nationwide, according to a recent study published by personal finance website WalletHub.…
MAINE ā A highly coordinated network of over 500 activist groups organized nationwide āNo Kingsā protests across the United States…
BIDDEFORD, Maine ā Democratic gubernatorial candidate Dr. Nirav Shah delivered a wide-ranging policy message Sunday during a town hall in…
The polls be damned, Republican Bobby Charles has decided who’s going to be the Democrat gubernatorial nominee in Maine.Charles, clearly…
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, the Maine Republican who chairs the Senate Appropriations Committee, said the Senateās passage of…
AUGUSTA, Maine – A new campaign ad released by Janet Millsā (D) U.S. Senate campaign features an Army veteran and…
York County GOP Chair Heidi Sampson and Independent York Sheriff Candidate Brian Pellerin challenged David Corbett’s petition to run for…
Because Maine is in peril, Ronald Reaganās 11th commandment is in abeyance. As the eight Republican candidates for governor squared…
Maine Senator Angus King (I) has joined a group of his Independent and Democratic Senate colleagues in calling upon Secretary…
All eight of Maine’s Republican gubernatorial candidates gathered for the first time in Bangor on Tuesday evening for A Clash…
In another Democratic display of selective outrage, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D) announced on X that she has formally endorsed…
WATERVILLE, Maine ā While many candidates talk about Maineās child welfare system from the outside, Shawn Packard says he has…
A third contender – claiming a mantle of bureaucratic reform – has emerged in what until now has been a…
Sam Patten is a contributor to the Maine Wire. Is the government about to charge national media personality Tucker Carlson…
AUGUSTA, Maine ā Maineās 2026 U.S. Senate race is moving from petition season into open combat, and the timing could…
AUBURN, Maine ā Speaking at the Lincoln Dinner in Auburn, gubernatorial candidate Bobby Charles delivered an energized and deeply personal…
AUBURN, Maine ā Republican gubernatorial candidate Ben Midgley used his remarks at the Auburn Lincoln Day dinner to cast himself…
Five Democratic lawmakers, as well as Maineās Sen. Angus King (I), have filed an amicus brief in the lawsuit against…
The federal governmentāspecifically the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) director, Dr. Ozāhas informed Governor Janet Mills that her…
AUBURN, Maine ā Robert Wessels used his Saturday night speech at the Androscoggin County Republicansā Lincoln Dinner to deliver a…
AUBURN, Maine ā Republican gubernatorial candidate Jonathan Bush delivered a wide-ranging and deeply personal speech Saturday night at the Androscoggin…
AUBURN, Maine ā Republican gubernatorial candidate Garrett Mason used a Saturday evening speech at the Androscoggin County Republican Lincoln Dinner…
Given President Trump’s uneasy relationship with the liberal, fake-news White House Press Corpse, he could be forgiven for not attending…
PORTLAND ā Democratic gubernatorial candidate Dr. Nirav Shah is branding his campaign around what he calls āMaineās Affordable Future,ā unveiling…
It goes without saying the pro-war crew — with cheerleaders like John Bolton and Lindsey Graham — is still ecstatic…
Correction: Bobby Charles was polling at 28 percent, not 38 percent as was previously stated in this article. The latest…
LEWISTON, Maine ā Voters in Maine House District 94 head to the polls Tuesday, Feb. 24 in a special election…
PORTLAND, Maine ā Maineās new āred flagā gun law took effect Saturday, creating a broader legal pathway for temporarily removing…
New polling from the University of New Hampshire Survey Center offers some early insight into the 2028 presidential primary field…
Maine’s Judiciary Committee is considering a bill that would remove the statute of limitations for sex trafficking of minors and…
The organizers of an upcoming Palestinian-rights conference either pulled a big boner or are crazy like a fox.The Maine Coalition…
LEWISTON, Maine ā Survivors of the Lewiston mass shooting and family members of victims delivered emotional testimony before the Lewiston…
AUGUSTA, Maine ā Gov. Janet Mills and her allies in the Legislature have often pitched LD 210 as routine budget…
Back in those early, heady days of the Biden administration there was some loose talk about nominating U.S. Sen. Angus…
U.S. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) is throwing her weight behind the House-passed SAVE America Act, saying the revised bill strikes…
Democrat Janet Mills put out a new ad questioning whether Maineās Republican U.S. senator has āenough courage.ā But the real…
WASHINGTON ā House Republicans are again moving to overhaul voter registration rules for federal elections, passing a renewed version of…
LEWISTON, Maine – The Maine Community Foundationās Feb. 9 website update meant to answer criticism over how Lewiston shooting-related donations…
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) officially announced her re-election bid on Tuesday via an op-ed in the Bangor Daily News and…
WASHINGTON, D.C. ā U.S. Senator Susan Collins (R), Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced she secured $13,085,000 in Congressionally Directed…
PORTLAND, Maine ā A public clash between Cumberland County Sheriff Kevin Joyce and federal immigration officials has intensified into a…
The United States Supreme Court voted Wednesday to allow the State of California to use its new voter-approved congressional map…
FORT PIERCE, Florida – Ryan Wesley Routh, 59, was sentenced Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026, to life in federal prison, plus…
The spending package to end the partial government shutdown was approved by lawmakers in the House Tuesday and signed into…
WASHINGTON, D.C. ā Sen. Susan Collins (R) says she secured new funding and legislative language aimed at combating Chinese-linked illicit…
LEWISTON, Maine ā Residents and elected officials returned once again to the Lewiston City Council chambers this week, urging city…
Somali-born state Rep. Yusuf Yusuf (D-Portland) runs a home care business with apparent ties to an interconnected network of Somali-operated…
PORTLAND, Maine – Graham Platner, a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, sharply criticized Sen. Susan Collins on Thursday during a…
PORTLAND, Maine – ICE deputy assistant director is firing back at the growing chorus of Maine media and political criticism…
PORTLAND, Maine ā The City of Portland will open an emergency overnight warming shelter this weekend, operating Friday, Saturday and…
Democrats on Maine’s Legislative Council voted on Thursday against considering an emergency bill that would require Secretary of State Shenna…
LEWISTON ā Ifraax Saciid-Ciise, a Lewiston Somali interpreter and nonprofit director, is now the face of a widening backlash over…
LEWISTON, Maine ā Safiya Khalid, a former Lewiston city councilor and former employee of Gateway Community Services, is facing sharp…
Former CNN host Don Lemon defended left-wing rioters who disrupted an evangelical church service Sunday believing a pastor was connected…
AUGUSTA, Maine ā Republican gubernatorial candidate Bobby Charles is escalating his campaignās law-and-order message with a new social media video…
LEWISTON, Maine ā Republican House District 94 candidate Janet Beaudoin drew a wave of supporters to a Thursday campaign event…
PORTLAND, Maine ā U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner, a Democrat, posted a video to social media warning that Immigration and…
PORTLAND, Maine ā Maine state Rep. Deqa Dhalac urged Somali-Americans in Maine to pour āour time our money our skillsā…
AUGUSTA, Maine ā Gov. Janet Mills says she now supports a āfull investigationā into Gateway Community Services after state audits…
WASHINGTON ā Sen. Susan Collins (R) of Maine, the chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, delivered remarks on the Senate…
AUGUSTA, Maine ā Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, testifying during Mondayās Veterans and Legal Affairs Committee meeting in Augusta, acknowledged…
LEWISTON, Maine ā What should have been a routine step to fill a vacant City Council seat turned into a…
AUGUSTA, Maine ā Former Maine Senate Majority Leader Garrett Mason officially launched his campaign for governor on Wednesday, jumping into…
The Democrat-controlled House of Representatives attempted to ban Maine Wire reporter Jon Fetherston from entering the House chamber alongside other…
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced Monday that its Board of Directors has voted to dissolve the organization after…
By Nicole Silverio of the Daily Caller News Foundation Nick Shirley, the viral YouTuber who exposed the fraud happening at…
Gov. Janet Mills has spent months on the campaign trail boasting that she āstood up toā President Donald Trump, repeatedly…
As working families in Maine and Massachusetts get crushed by higher taxes, higher rents, and higher grocery bills, two governors…
Federal agents visited a property in Lewiston on Tuesday that has been the source of repeated reports of fraud and…
Democratic state Rep. Deqa Dhalac (South Portland) is facing intensifying scrutiny as a widening state and federal investigation into alleged…
Maine Republicans intensified their attack Tuesday over alleged MaineCare fraud tied to Gateway Community Services, warning that the case exposes…
Dozens of federal agents working with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security probed multiple locations in Lewiston on Tuesday that…
Gov. Janet Mills (D), a candidate for the U.S. Senate, is trumpeting a $190 million federal health care award for…
U.S. Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) announced Monday that Maine will receive $190 million in first-year funding through the Rural Health…
Maine Republican legislative leaders will hold a press conference Tuesday to discuss allegations of MaineCare fraud involving Gateway Community Services,…
A condemned building tied to a federal drug bust is continuing to appear on paper as a business address and…
Maine residents will see higher taxes and fees across multiple everyday purchases starting January 1, 2026, as a slate of…
The dark horse in Maineās Democrat U.S. Senate primary went full bore on Christmas for his last, big end-of-year money…
After passing major tax cuts earlier this year, Republicans are laying out a broader affordability agenda they hope will start…
YouTuber Nick Shirley posted video Friday showing multiple purported Somali-run day care centers in Minnesota, including one which reportedly received…
Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows is again under fire as the League of Women Voters of Maine steps in…
As Maine continues to grapple with fallout from the Gateway Communities scandal and other nonprofit controversies, Gov. Janet Mills has…
Maine politics in 2025 were defined by confrontation, controversy, and growing public distrust, as a high-stakes U.S. Senate race, mass…
Democratic Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan praised Somali migrants in the state during a visit to a market in a…
Maine leads the nation in one important category, a national news network recently suggested: dynastic politics. Looking ahead to the…
A widening investigation by the U.S. House Oversight and Accountability Committee into alleged Medicaid fraud has placed new scrutiny on…
After its Christmas break concludes, Congress is set to return in January with a host of unfinished business that could…
Bipartisan legislation authored by U.S. Sen. Susan Collins (R) and Sen. Mark Warner (D) aimed at strengthening the security of…
A federal judge declared a mistrial Monday in the corruption case against a former top aide to Democratic New York…
Maineās Department of Health and Human Services has suspended MaineCare payments to Gateway Community Services after a newly completed state…
Amid the Mills Administration’s unchecked spending, including thousands of pages and billions of dollars on no-bid contracts, it’s also expending…
A powerful congressional committee is demanding federal financial records tied to a Maine nonprofit that has come under scrutiny following…
Former Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) announced he has been diagnosed with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer. The two-term ex-senator, 53, wrote…