The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) warned against underestimating Graham Platner’s electoral chances in a Wednesday memo following his primary…
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Maine Democrat Senate nominee Graham Platner has come under heavy fire for his many immoral and vile statements. These include…
SULLIVAN, Maine – An apparent digital oversight by Graham Platner’s U.S. Senate campaign has opened the door for a new…
President Donald Trump referred to Graham Platner as a thug and speculated that he was the worst person to ever…
AUGUSTA, Maine – Maine’s 2026 primary elections delivered decisive victories in some races while triggering the state’s ranked-choice voting system…
President Donald Trump renewed his endorsement of former Governor Paul LePage for congress on Monday, just one day ahead of…
AUGUSTA, Maine – As Maine’s June 9 primary comes to a close, campaign signs have once again become a familiar…
PORTLAND, Maine — Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner delivered a combative and deeply anti-establishment speech Sunday evening at the…
Bernie Sanders is afraid Graham Platner may about to be toast. That’s why he posted a lengthy hail-mary tweet over…
By Jon Fetherston There was a time in American politics when character mattered. Not perfection. Not ideological purity. Not whether…
LEWISTON, Maine – A former Lewiston city councilor is facing growing criticism after a local educator was temporarily placed on…
On the morning of Tuesday, June 2 — exactly one week before the June 9 primary, and with in-person absentee…
The Maine Department of Transportation (MDOT) is planning to cut up to $400 million worth of construction and upgrade projects…
A new internal poll conducted on behalf of the Pine Tree Results PAC, working to elect Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine),…
New allegations about Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner’s past conduct emerged this week after a New York Times report…
LEWISTON, Maine — More than a hundred residents, law enforcement officials, elected leaders, educators, and gubernatorial candidates gathered Wednesday night…
Graham Platner’s campaign issued a damage control memo on Wednesday, bragging about his fundraising numbers and a new internal poll…
Two Navy veterans have raised questions about the veracity of Maine gubernatorial candidate Bobby Charles’ military record and sharply criticized…
LEWISTON, Maine – The Lewiston City Council voted Tuesday night to formally censure Ward 3 Councilor Scott Harriman for what…
BUCKSPORT, Maine – A proposal to begin Bucksport Town Council meetings with the Pledge of Allegiance has sparked debate among…
LEWISTON, Maine — Five juveniles have been charged in connection with a retaliatory shooting on Pierce Street, Lewiston Police announced…
AUGUSTA – Maine lawmakers are calling for a formal investigation into the Maine Community Foundation after alleging that millions of…
PORTLAND, Maine – Just how well is Graham Platner’s campaign going? That question has become harder to ignore as the…
A public dispute between former Obama adviser Jon Favreau and former Biden adviser Neera Tanden has exposed a deeper divide…
PORTLAND, Maine – Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner is facing fresh scrutiny after a sexually suggestive profile tied to…
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Troy Jackson is receiving support from a PAC funded by a variety of out-of-state organizations and a…
LEWISTON, Maine – Lewiston City Councilor and state Rep. Scott Harriman is facing a third formal censure by the City…
LEWISTON, Maine – Reports of gunfire on Bartlett Street late Thursday night are raising new concerns in a city already…
The U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit on Thursday against Maine after Secretary of State Shenna Bellows refused to…
LEWISTON, Maine – In a wide-ranging interview with The Maine Wire, Lewiston Police Chief Carly Conley painted a sobering picture…
The White House released an update on its war against fraud on Tuesday shortly before a press conference from Vice…
A student at Hampden Academy brought a firearm onto school grounds in his car last Wednesday, triggering a police response.…
Secretary of State (SoS) Shenna Bellows decided on Tuesday to remove the referendum question to protect girls’ sports and spaces…
PORTLAND, Maine – After a bruising week filled with controversy and growing scrutiny, Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner appeared…
WASHINGTON – For many Americans, Memorial Day marks the unofficial start of summer, a long weekend filled with cookouts, travel…
WASHINGTON — A gunman was shot and killed by U.S. Secret Service officers Saturday evening after authorities say he opened…
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump canceled plans to spend the weekend away from Washington and will skip his son Donald…
AUGUSTA, Maine – A top official in Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows’ office has recommended invalidating a citizen initiative…
SULLIVAN, Maine – A Maine parents’ advocacy organization is calling for Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner (D) to be…
SULLIVAN, Maine – Just when it seemed Graham Platner’s controversies had reached what some at The Maine Wire jokingly call…
AUGUSTA, Maine – As Portland, Lewiston, and Bangor moved to restrict cooperation with federal immigration authorities, the political battle over…
Much of the discussion surrounding Graham Platner and his candidacy has focused on his Nazi tattoo, past controversial comments, fake…
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump issued a stark warning to Iran on Sunday, declaring that the “clock is ticking” as…
SEARSMONT, Maine – A firefighter was killed and multiple people were injured Friday morning after an explosion occurred during fire suppression…
Gov. Janet Mills (D-Maine) issued a response to Vice President JD Vance’s anti-fraud visit to Bangor on Thursday, claiming that…
BANGOR — Vice President JD Vance came to Bangor Thursday with a blunt message for Maine: the fraud problem is…
President Donald Trump has announced that he is looking to suspend the nation’s gas tax in the face of rising…
BANGOR, Maine – The Maine Republican Party announced that Vice President J.D. Vance will travel to Bangor on Thursday to…
LEWISTON, Maine — Another violent incident unfolded Sunday in Lewiston, where police are investigating what appears to be an intentional…
NEW YORK – Andrew Ferguson, co-chair of President Donald Trump’s federal anti-fraud committee with Vice President JD Vance, appeared Saturday…
LEWISTON, Maine – A survivor-led nonprofit organization says more than $84,000 has now been directly distributed to victims and survivors…
As Graham Platner pivots towards a pitched battle against Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) after Gov. Janet Mills (D-Maine) dropped out…
LEWISTON, Maine— Residents packed Lewiston City Hall chambers Tuesday night as public frustration over the city’s long-awaited property revaluation collided…
The White House has expressed support for making the moratorium on new regulations pertaining to North Atlantic Right Whale valid…
Portland, Maine – Graham Platner has built his U.S. Senate campaign around the image of an average Maine working man.…
“Welcome thy stranger.” “Love thy neighbor.” Those are the words Maine Democrats like to repeat, until the person asking questions…
The United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in a case concerning the federal government’s efforts to end temporary…
LEWISTON, Maine — Fear is rising in Lewiston as reports of repeated gunfire incidents rattle neighborhoods, but when confronted directly…
PORTLAND, Maine – A dispute over next week’s WGME-TV Republican gubernatorial debate is intensifying after candidate Robert Wessels said he…
Hours before two of Maine’s leading Democratic candidates were prepared to speak with supporters on Lisbon St. in downtown Lewiston,…
Maine’s Legislature voted on Wednesday to uphold Gov. Janet Mills’ (D-Maine) surprise veto of a bill that would have placed…
A new hub for Somali-run home healthcare businesses appears to be taking shape at 100 Larrabee Road in Westbrook, where…
For eight years, the evidence has been piling up in plain view: MaineCare, the state’s $4-billion-and-growing Medicaid behemoth, has become…
PORTLAND, Maine – Portland city councilors are set for a busy Monday evening at City Hall, with several high-profile issues…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump was evacuated unharmed from the White House Correspondents’ Dinner at the Washington Hilton Saturday…
WASHINGTON – What began as a high-profile evening of politics, media, and tradition abruptly turned into chaos Saturday night when…
Gov. Janet Mills’ Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) is once again withholding payments from MaineCare providers, delaying some…
AUGUSTA — Former Maine Gov. and U.S. congressional candidate Paul LePage spoke Friday at the Maine GOP Convention in Augusta,…
SOUTH PORTLAND — Republican gubernatorial candidate Jonathan Bush has raised more than $2.1 million in his campaign for Maine governor,…
The Portland-based Luna Home Care has continued to draw in millions of dollars in Medicaid funding despite failing to pay…
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday announced an 11-count federal indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center,…
Mainers mocked Gov. Janet Mills (D-Maine,) expressed support for ICE, and criticized Attorney General Aaron Frey via the email tip…
WASHINGTON – Negotiations to end the war between the United States and Iran have hit a critical impasse as a…
Maine School Administrative District (MSAD) 20’s Fort Fairfield School sparked controversy after it hosted a dance performance from a group…
AUBURN, Maine — The man whose actions triggered a massive manhunt across Lewiston and Auburn on Thursday forcing schools, hospitals,…
PORTLAND, Maine — Graham Platner (D) closed out his Saturday night campaign rally at the Holiday Inn in downtown Portland…
PORTLAND, Maine – When Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren (D) came to Maine on Saturday night at the Holiday Inn in…
LEWISTON, Maine — A large-scale police search for an Auburn man believed to be armed and in crisis triggered lockdowns…
WASHINGTON – As of April 2026, the Strait of Hormuz is under a dual blockade involving both Iranian and U.S.…
AUGUSTA, Maine – The Maine Legislature is, for all practical purposes, done for the year. After racing to the statutory…
Mostafa Alahmedi, president of 5 Star Home Health Care, continued working in Maine’s booming homecare fraud economy after his own…
Augusta, Maine – Republican lawmakers gathered to voice support for a citizen-initiated referendum aimed at restricting participation in girls’ sports…
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump announced plans to initiate a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz beginning Monday at 10:00…
Maine’s $500 million supplemental budget was signed into law by Gov. Janet Mills (D) Friday after narrowly passing the House…
Included in the supplemental budget advanced by the Democratic majority in Augusta was a “millionaire tax” that would charge residents…
Sen. Susan Collins (R) announced Monday that Maine will be receiving a combined $65 million for two rural infrastructure projects…
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump agreed Tuesday to suspend additional U.S. bombing and military attacks on Iran for two weeks,…
AUGUSTA, Maine – Secretary of State Shenna Bellows is now accepting public comment on the draft wording of a citizen…
The Maine Supreme Court is in unanimous agreement that expanding the use of ranked-choice voting to include all state elections…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Susan Collins (R), chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, issued a measured but pointed response…
Farmington attorney Paul Mills, the brother of Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D), first popped into The Maine Wire’s multi-year investigation…
LEWISTON, Maine – A harassment complaint filed by Lewiston City Councilor, School Committee member, and newly elected State Representative Scott…
President Donald J. Trump announced Saturday in a post on Truth Social that U.S. military forces successfully completed what he described as…
A home health care business with ties to the infamous alleged fraud front Gateway Community Services faced an audit with…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Vice President JD Vance has been tapped to take a leading role in combating fraud nationwide, a…
Amid a nationwide reckoning over Medicaid fraud committed largely by “New Americans,” Maine Gov. Janet Mills is taking the unprecedented…
New England Women’s Solidarity (NEWS), a feminist organization, is sending a letter to Gov. Janet Mills (D-Maine) criticizing her for…
AUGUSTA, Maine – Maine Democrats moved late Tuesday night to add a new “millionaire’s tax” to their supplemental budget proposal,…
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump is scheduled to deliver a national address at 9:00 p.m. ET tonight, Wednesday, April 1,…
LEWISTON, Maine – The future of Lewiston’s historic Colisée, home to one of the most famous boxing matches in Maine…