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Republican candidate for governor David Jones announced Thursday on Facebook that he is filing a federal lawsuit seeking to overturn…
Maine’s Sen. Angus King (I) has joined a coalition of Democratic lawmakers in cosponsoring a bill that would repeal a…
Rep. Laurel Libby (R-Auburn) addressed University of Maine students in Orono on Wednesday about the importance of free speech and…
By Lauren LePage For too long, American politics has drifted toward tribalism. Democrats talk toDemocrats, Republicans talk to Republicans. Look…
U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner, a Hancock County oyster farmer and combat veteran, filed his overdue federal financial disclosure last week,…
President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed legislation requiring the Department of Justice to make public a vast trove of internal…
A Lewiston resident is calling for an independent, third-party investigation into both city officials’ handling of a school committee appointment…
Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner drew nearly 800 people to a town hall in Biddeford on Wednesday night, delivering an…
On Tuesday, Gov. Janet Mills (D) officially certified the results of the statewide referendum election held earlier this month. Following…
A Democrat congresswoman from Maine is among a host of Washington lawmakers trading stocks and bonds amid an effort by…
A city in Massachusetts has found itself in the spotlight over an ongoing effort to install two statues depicting Catholic…
Democratic Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin posted a video to social media Tuesday morning in which she and five of her…
President Donald Trump snapped at Bloomberg reporter Catherine Lucey when she pressed him about the files surrounding sex offender Jeffrey…
A former two-time Maine gubernatorial candidate, previously convicted of possessing child porn, is now being charged with violating probation by…
Maine will have a host of political primaries next June that should be entertaining,consequential and interrelated. Turnout and demographic differences…
If the social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter) truly rules, then Maine GOP gubernatorial candidate Bobby Charles can…
Cumberland County leaders on Monday rejected a proposal that would have ended a federal contract allowing the county jail to…
A handful of Republicans are bucking President Donald Trump on bargaining rights for federal workers. Five House Republicans have signed…
With the City of Lewiston facing crises on multiple fronts, from homelessness to gun violence and drug addiction to lingering…
Former Saco Mayor Bill Doyle is one of two candidates vying for the vacant Ward 3 City Council seat in…
U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-ME) wants the world to know about her decision to vote against the bill allowing the…
A special election is likely on the horizon for Maine House District 94 in Lewiston after longtime Democratic Rep. Kristen…
Former Maine Senate president and 2018 Republican gubernatorial primary candidate Garrett Mason filed paperwork with the state to form an…
A long-running and divisive fight over whether the Cumberland County Jail should continue holding Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees is…
Auburn Republican Laurel Libby will not run for another term in the Maine House next year, she announced Monday morning.…
President Donald Trump on Sunday night called on House Republicans to vote to release files related to deceased pedophile sex…
Newly elected Ward 5 City Councilor-read elect and current School Committee member Iman Osman is facing increasing scrutiny over his…
A few years back, a man who was then a state representative shared with me a frustration he had about…
Maine’s Senator Susan Collins (R) announced Friday that she and two other lawmakers led a bipartisan group of senators in…
Maine’s electricity costs have risen faster than those of any other state in the nation, and the trend has become…
New York just elected a communist, antisemitic, Muslim mayor, and Maine is tipping that way. There is plainly trouble in…
The House of Representatives is poised to vote next week on legislation that would compel the Department of Justice to…
U.S. Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) has secured nearly $35 million in federal funding for 20 projects across Maine, her office…
Earlier this week, The Maine Wire ran an op-ed by Larry Lockman entitled “Ballot Box Boomerang: Will Maine Republicans Overcome…
Graham Platner’s U.S. Senate campaign failed to file his personal financial disclosure with the Secretary of the Senate, a requirement…
A coalition of more than twenty states, including Maine, have sued the Trump Administration over its decision to disqualify some…
Sanford Police Chief Eric Small announced he will run as a Republican for a seat in Maine’s State House District…
State Sen. Joe Rafferty, a Democrat from Kennebunk who has represented Maine’s District 34 for the past five years, announced…
Conservative activist Nicholas Blanchard, widely known by his online persona “Corn Pop,” has entered the race for the Augusta School…
President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed legislation to reopen the federal government, ending the longest shutdown in U.S. history after…
Iman Osman, recently elected to represent Ward 5 on the Lewiston City Council and currently serving on the Lewiston School…
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner’s campaign has been paying his wife a biweekly salary, according to recent filings with…
The dynastic trials seem to be rearing their ugly heads as a Maine prince-in-waiting delicately shadows The King. When Democrat…
The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote Wednesday late afternoon on legislation that could end the longest government…
Radically left-wing Senate hopeful Graham Platner is polling far below incumbent Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) in a new poll obtained…
A new grassroots movement calling itself Common Sense for Maine is kicking off its first annual “Tailgate for Common Sense”…
Jordan Wood, a Bristol Democrat who had been seeking to challenge Republican U.S. Sen. Susan Collins in next year’s election,…
Four of the eight Republican candidates for governor marked Veterans Day with a spirited debate Monday night, trading views on…
The deal now making its way from the Senate to the House that will bring an end to the record-long…
During the first Trump administration, some wondered why the president so proficient at parceling out nicknames insisted on calling the…
The Bangor City Council voted unanimously on Monday to end public comments held remotely via Zoom at its first meeting…
Portland’s City Council on Monday approved an ordinance requiring owners of vacant storefronts in the city’s pedestrian district to register…
Sanford Police Chief Eric Smalls ended his Republican bid for Rep. Chellie Pingree’s (D-Maine) First Congressional District (CD1) House seat…
The day before the crushing defeat of Question One on November 4th— which would have reformed absentee voting and mandated…
The U.S. Senate approved legislation authored by Sen. Susan Collins (R) to reopen the federal government, advancing a package that…
Republican attorney and U.S. Marine veteran John Deaton has formally launched a campaign for the U.S. Senate seat currently held…
A new poll from the University of New Hampshire Survey Center offers some early insight into the 2028 presidential primary…
Four-term congressman Jared Golden’s (D-Maine) surprise announcement on Wednesday that he would not be seeking re-election drastically altered the high-stakes…
President Donald Trump has granted “full, complete and unconditional” pardons to several high-profile allies accused of attempting to overturn the…
The reports of ballots turning up in unexpected places during elections are often described by officials as isolated and unlikely…
Valerie Adams, a former Assistant District Attorney in Cumberland County, confirmed she will run for District Attorney in 2026, days…
Local prosecutors charged a Mexican man currently serving as mayor of a small American city with unlawfully voting multiple times…
President Donald Trump on Sunday described critics of his tariff strategy as “fools” and pledged that the government will distribute…
Governor Janet Mills (D) said Sunday she expects full Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits to begin Monday, condemning what…
The United States Senate took the first step Sunday toward ending the government shutdown after a group of moderate Democrats…
A closely watched race for an at-large seat on the Westbrook City Council is headed for a recount after a…
A federal grand jury has issued subpoenas to former CIA Director John Brennan and former senior FBI officials Peter Strzok…
In the wake of a top-level staffing exodus in recent weeks, U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner (D) is doubling down…
Governor Janet Mills (D) has directed the Maine Department of Health and Human Services to issue full Supplemental Nutrition Assistance…
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) food-aid program for about 42 million Americans is caught in fresh legal and funding…
A senior prosecutor has departed the Cumberland County District Attorney’s Office amid allegations of internal conflict and concerns about workplace…
The nation’s first-ever transgender-identifying state lawmaker, a former New Hampshire Democratic representative for Nashua, pleaded guilty this week to the…
Maine’s Sen. Susan Collins (R) has asked U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Brooke Rollins to provide disaster assistance to…
Anti-Trump attorney George Conway celebrated the former Justice Department employee who threw a footlong Subway sandwich at a United States…
Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey blocked legislation that would withhold lawmakers’ paychecks until the government shutdown ends. Republican Florida Sen.…
U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner (D) held a town hall at the Chocolate Church Arts Center in Bath Thursday evening,…
U.S. Senators Susan Collins (R-ME) and Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) introduced bipartisan legislation Wednesday aimed at protecting American specialty crop farmers…
California voters have approved Proposition 50, a redistricting measure that temporarily removes congressional map-drawing authority from the state’s independent redistricting…
Conservatives picked up an additional seat on the Augusta City Council election on Tuesday after a newcomer defeated the incumbent…
State Rep. Tiffany D. Roberts (D-South Berwick) launched her campaign for Maine’s First District Congressional seat in her home town…
Gov. Janet Mills said Wednesday that voters delivered a clear rebuke to proposed changes to Maine’s absentee voting laws, rejecting…
Senate Majority Leader John Thune is on a collision course with President Donald Trump over nixing a longstanding legislative tool…
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday in a major challenge to President Donald Trump’s global tariff program, a case…
Rep. Jared Golden (D-Maine) will not seek re-election in the upcoming 2026 midterm elections, he announced on Wednesday, citing increased…
Maine litigator Joshua Dunlap has been confirmed to the U.S .Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, becoming the only…
State Rep. Tiffany Roberts (D-South Berwick) has formally filed paperwork to run for Maine’s First Congressional District, setting up a…
Falmouth residents have narrowly rejected an effort to repeal the town’s new pesticide and fertilizer ordinance, with about 55 percent…
The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) member and transgender-identifying male Wil Theime, who goes by Ramona, secured victory in the…
Liberal candidates dominated in Augusta’s school board election on Tuesday, retaining two seats and gaining a third previously held by…
There was a ray of hope for Maine conservatives amid a string of failures at the voting booth on Tuesday,…
Biddeford voters have approved the formation of a charter commission, signaling support for a formal review of the city’s governing…
For the second year in a row, voters in Kennebunkport rejected a proposal to construct a new town hall, defeating…
Two contenders emerged victorious Tuesday in the only contested race of the season for the Sanford City Council, as voters…
Bangor voters have elected Angela Walker, who was convicted of manslaughter nearly a quarter century ago, as a new city…
Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows appeared at the polls in Bangor on Tuesday evening, where she offered remarks on…
Liam LaFountain was elected the next mayor of Biddeford on Tuesday, winning a three-way race to lead one of southern…
Voters in Maine’s largest city decisively approved a minimum wage increase on Tuesday, endorsing a city councilor’s proposal to raise…
South Portland residents voted Tuesday to approve a natural grass field for their high school’s athletic complex by a decisive…
“The Charlie Kirk Show” on Sunday published the final long-form interview that Charlie Kirk conducted, during which he and his…