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Colby College evacuated and locked down two buildings on Monday morning after an email claimed that a bomb had been…
A Saco ed-tech who worked with disabled children delivered an impassioned speech at Wednesday’s school board meeting, explaining her decision…
The Maine Democratic Party announced in April that it had found a new executive director after an extensive search. That…
The Lewiston Police Department arrested a 14-year-old suspect on Friday after he allegedly shot at an apartment building and two…
The number of public school employees who celebrated the political assassination of Christian and conservative commentator Charlie Kirk has reached…
Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows responded Wednesday afternoon to the lawsuit filed by the Department of Justice (DOJ) against…
Bowdoin College cancelled a vigil for Charlie Kirk scheduled for Sunday evening in a campus-wide email that said the Maine…
President Donald Trump urged Americans outraged over the assassination of Charlie Kirk to respond to the shooting peacefully in honor…
UPDATE: Charlie Kirk tragically passed away after he was shot during his Utah event. President Donald Trump issued a statement…
The Department of Homeland Security has confirmed that the individuals it had detained while a deranged transgender activist attempted to…
A Democratic lawmaker has been summoned by the Hancock County Sheriff’s Office for allegedly violating Maine election law during an…
A Cumberland suds guru is the latest Democrat to announce plans to take on Maine’s senior senator, though the jury’s…
A tuberculosis outbreak has gripped a large emergency shelter in Portland, Maine, prompting urgent health measures and mounting concern among…
Solon property once the site of an illegal grow targeted for receivorship
Nine people were arrested after Somerset County sheriff’s detectives hit two Skowhegan homes with simultaneous drug search warrants just after…
Law enforcement records obtained by the Maine Wire paint a startling picture of life and crime in Lewiston, Maine’s second-largest…
An illegal alien from Africa was behind the wheel of a 2013 Buick Verano that killed a Massachusetts woman in…
If your only news sources were the Bangor Daily News, the Maine Trust for Local News, or Maine Public, then…
The chief of Maine’s Capitol Police was arrested Friday after allegedly assaulting a local police officer outside a Hallowell bar,…
Maine Capitol Police Chief Matthew M. Clancy, 62, of Sidney, was taken to the ground, cuffed and stuffed after biting…
Update: After the publication of this article, the owner of Blaze Bangor, Matthew Haskell, spoke with The Maine Wire, informing…
Jordan Wood, a longtime Washington, D.C. staffer running as a Democrat to unseat Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) displayed the true…
A federal appeals court on Monday affirmed the dismissal of a lawsuit brought by a Maine mother who accused public…
Excerpt from congressional report detailing Hunter Biden’s relationship with Chinese-communist linked corporations and agents. Photo of a business card Mervyn…
Documents obtained from the Waldo County Sheriff’s Department add a new layer of mystery to the deaths of two Chinese…
Days after the arrest and preliminary charging of a suspect in the murder of Sunshine “Sunny” Stewart, a new question…
17-year-old Deven Young of Frankfort appeared in court on Friday morning via Zoom from the Long Creek Youth Detention facility…
News that the Maine State Police have made an arrest in the murder of Tenants Harbor resident Sunshine “Sunny Stewart,…
A week after the national release of the documentary, High Crimes: The Chinese Mafia’s Takeover of Rural America in partnership…
One week after the brutal slaying of a Tenants Harbor woman on a pond in Union, what is taking hold…
Seven Chinese nationals are facing federal charges for allegedly running a multi-million-dollar illegal pot empire hidden in quiet neighborhoods across…
https://twitter.com/BigSteve207/status/1939793686344196362 The Chinese Mafia is building a black-market marijuana empire across rural America—buying homes, churches, and even schools. They’re lacing…
Thirty-seven year-old allegations of cocaine abuse have returned to haunt Maine Gov. Janet Mills thanks to a resurfaced U.S. Department…
New poll findings released on Thursday give former Maine Governor Paul LePage (R) a three-point lead over incumbent U.S. Representative…
Gubernatorial candidate and former Maine Senate President Troy Jackson, a Democrat, expressed his strong support on Monday for New York…
State Senator Rick Bennett (R-Oxford) announced on Tuesday that he will be running as an independent for Governor of Maine…
Stephen S. Walker gives a speech to the Brunswick Town Council after resigning his District 2 seat. During Saturday’s annual…
As the world waits to see the aftermath of President Donald Trump’s decision to bomb three of Iran’s nuclear facilities…
Lawmakers in Augusta are battling in Augusta this week over the second part of the state’s proposed biennial budget. But…
Maine’s Democrat-controlled legislature easily passed a bill that will cement the state’s status as a sanctuary jurisdiction for illegal alien…
If you’re going to get caught breaking a law that you claim to support, make sure the news breaks going…
In a series of votes reflecting Maine’s divided stance on gun control, the Maine Senate this week rejected a bill…
The Regional School Unit (RSU) 4 school board voted on Wednesday, near the end of the school year, to remove…
A federal judge on Monday postponed the habeas hearing for the Congolese man who has been held in U.S. Immigration…
The United States Supreme Court has unanimously ruled that so-called “reverse discrimination” must be treated the same as any other…
President Donald Trump (R) has asked the United States Supreme Court to halt enforcement of an order issued by a…
Jon Fetherston, the whistleblower who exposed the heinous crimes committed by illegal immigrants in Massachusetts’ “Healy Hotel” shelters, requested on…
President Donald Trump and Elon Musk, once allies, clashed publicly Thursday in a bitter dispute over the “One Big Beautiful…
Long-time U.S. House Speaker Tip O’Neill famously said “all politics is local,” and he could just have easily been talking…
Who’s afraid of a public hearing? Maine legislative Republicans held a press conference on Monday to call out a move…
A proposal by a Knox County Democrat legislator for a “regional living wage” – supposedly to help people afford housing…
The Heritage Foundation has filed a lawsuit against Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) for allegedly violating the state’s Freedom of…
A public school in Maine has suspended a middle school student for barking like a dog at another student who…
Maine lawmakers appear poised to reject a bill directing the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to reimburse hospitals…
Eddie DuGay is a Navy veteran, a former Democratic member of the Maine House of Representatives, and a former aide…
The Maine Department of Corrections (DOC) has denied access to the Supervised Community Confinement Program (SCCP) for Mark Cardilli, a…
A coalition of groups that received lucrative no-bid contracts from the Mills Administration from 2022 to 2024 — funded by…
Maine Rep. Laurel Libby’s (R-Auburn) right to vote in the Maine House of Representatives has been temporarily reinstated by the…
Second District Congressman Jared Golden (D-ME) put to rest speculation about his 2026 plans on Tuesday morning when he declared…
More than 2,100 allegations of abuse, neglect, and exploitation were reported in fiscal year 2024 among adults with intellectual disabilities…
(From L-R David Jones, Robert Wessels, Garrett Mason, Owen McCarthy, Bobby Charles and moderator Ray Richardson)
Former employees of Gateway Community Services, a migrant-run social services agency with offices throughout Maine, have alleged in interviews with…
A group Democrats, led by Rep. Deqa Dhalac (D-South Portland), put forward a bill late in the current legislative session…
The Waterville teacher, who made international headlines late last month after publicly calling for the assassination of President Donald Trump…
The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (DIFW) moved quickly on Friday to rescind a policy that the Trump…
Rep. Laurel Libby (R-Auburn) may face daunting challenges from the majority of Maine’s legislature, and even the state’s attorney general,…
The Trump Administration has notified the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (MDIFW) that it will suspend all grant…
U.S. Sen. Susan Collins (R) on Thursday issued her strongest call yet for President Donald Trump and federal law enforcement…
During the bad old days of the Soviet Union, a state official could legally shirk punishment by pretending to sick…
Ed Martin, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, is unlikely to clear the…
Two House committees called on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Tuesday to provide a classified briefing addressing the…
There’s a new Angus in Maine’s political arena and he’s gunning for the seat his father held for two terms…
A top Maine Democrat raised red flags in 2024 regarding the Mills Administration’s handling of non-competitive, no-bid contracts more than…
The infamous cannabis grow at 128 Weld Road in Wilton, just behind the former Bass Shoe Factory, is a total…
Former two-term Republican Governor Paul LePage has filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission and is expected to announce his…
A progressive Maine law firm that represents several school districts throughout the state issued a memo alongside the Maine School…
An English teacher at Waterville Senior High School took a break on Tuesday from instructing students on grammar and syntax…
Is the generous application of bail in pre-trial criminal cases, or early release when it comes to convicted and incarcerated…
“Material weaknesses” and “significant deficiencies” are the worst possible items an auditor can find in any financial organization. Yet when…
Maine Rep. Laurel Libby’s (R-Auburn) has filed an emergency petition to the United States Supreme Court, asking for their intervention…
Bangor Publishing Company — the company that owns both the Bangor Daily News (BDN) and a lesser-known marketing agency —…
China may be integrating advanced artificial intelligence technology into its illicit bioweapons programs, according to the State Department’s 2025 report…
Pope Francis passed away early Monday morning at the age of 88 after a 12-year pontificate, just hours after making…
Rhode Island-based U.S. District Court Judge Melissa DuBose reportedly issued a ruling late on Friday denying Maine State Rep. Laurel…
Maine’s Racial Equity Commission has emerged among the most frequent abusers of the sloppy no-bid contract system recently scrutinized in…
Is federal Medicaid spending, which last year amounted to over $580 billion, a virtual sacred cow for which reform or…
U.S. Attorney General (AG) Pam Bondi, joined by women’s sports advocate Riley Gaines, Maine Rep. Laurel Libby (R-Auburn), Secretary of…
When the head-turning girlfriend of former New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick takes the stage in this year’s Miss…
The distribution of Maine’s four presidential electoral votes was up for grabs in Augusta Monday morning, as lawmakers on the…
As the deadline set in a letter of impasse the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights had sent…
Gov. Janet Mills (D-Maine) is poised to ignore the April 11 deadline set by the U.S. Department of Education (DOE)…
A northern Maine nonprofit has accused the Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) of violating state procurement policies…
A Maine man was taken into protective custody by law enforcement after witnesses reported that he had emerged naked from…
A group of Democrat Maine legislators, headed by Rep. Cheryl Golek (D-Harpswell), introduced a bill on Thursday that would require…
A group of Republican Maine state senators on Monday sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi requesting an…
In a scathing audit of Maine’s 2024 spending, Maine’s Office of the State Auditor has revealed systemic financial mismanagement, cronyism-friendly…
Nearly two-thirds of Mainers agree with President Donald Trump (R) that biological men should be barred from participating in women’s…
Chief Patrol Agent Juan Bernal, the U.S. Border Patrol’s top official in Maine’s Houlton Sector, on Monday released a promotional…
A Maine Republican representative has filed an application to begin collecting signatures for a People’s Veto of the $11.3 billion…