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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…
Somali-American Abdullahi Ali has had a prolific life since arriving in Lewiston, Maine as a refugee in 2009. Ali has…
The Maine House Democrats endeavored to move forward with what will be a nearly $12 billion biennial spending program on…
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights ruled Monday that Maine’s education authorities and a…
A 13-year-old Cassidy Carlisle got an unwelcome shock when she encountered a biological male in the girls’ locker room at…
Legislative Democrats failed this week to secure a $120 million supplemental spending bill — thanks largely to Republicans in the…
As a result of every federal judge in Maine recusing themselves from a Republican State Representative’s case against the Democratic…
Maine Wire Editor-in-Chief Steve Robinson contributed to this report. UPDATE: The Maine Wire has learned the likely explanation for the…
Rep. Laurel Libby (R-Auburn) filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against Maine House Speaker Ryan Fecteau in the U.S. District Court…
Sen. Joe Baldacci (D-Penobscot) defended the highly controversial and nationally-publicized decision to censure Rep. Laurel Libby (R-Auburn) for posting a…
U.S. Sen. Susan Collins has joined a bipartisan group of senators in introducing the Northern Border Security Enhancement and Review…
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was asked Wednesday about Maine Gov. Janet Mills’ decision to defy federal civil rights…
Following the execution of a search warrant at 199 Middle Road in Fairfield related to an illegal cannabis growing operation,…
Maine has become ground zero for a fight between the Trump Administration and the American left over “gender identity”— the…
The Maine Wire’s Steve Robinson and Edward Tomic contributed to this story. Maine Gov. Janet Mills and Rep. Deqa Dhalac…
The U.S. Department of Justice has warned Maine officials that it is prepared to take legal action if the state…
The Maine Democratic Party issued a rare off-cycle fundraising text message on Monday, asking recipients to donate money in support…
President Donald Trump and Maine Governor Janet Mills traded legal ultimatums on Friday afternoon in a dispute arising from the…
President Donald Trump is threatening to withhold more than $250 million in estimated annual spending from the federal government for…
The 34-year-old man charged with allegedly murdering his wife in Readfield on Wednesday is a former SpaceX engineer who traveled…
A question on whether Maine should require some form of valid identification in order to vote, or voter ID, will…
Maine’s Attorney General has instructed employees of at least one state agency to avoid cooperating with officials from the U.S.…
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on Tuesday released statistics showing a marked decrease in encounters with illegal aliens along…
President Donald Trump is on track to have all of his Cabinet nominees confirmed despite a slim Republican majority in…
After reaching the next-to-last step in passing a $120 million supplemental spending package, Democratic leaders put off a final vote…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills and her Democratic allies in the Legislature were poised Monday afternoon to once again invoke an…
A Maine Democratic lawmaker made a Facebook post for Black History Month celebrating Assata Shakur, an FBI’s most wanted terrorist…
A group of Republican lawmakers are looking to end the controversial practice of same-day voter registration in Maine. Rep. Barbara…
Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey on Wednesday joined with the attorneys general of 14 other states in issuing a statement…
Massachusetts authorities have finally arrested the 42-year-old illegal alien alleged to have incestuously raped his 14-year-old daughter multiple times in…
“Jason” spoke broken English. But the energetic Chinese man communicated well enough to tell an HVAC tech from Lewiston-Auburn about…
Army Reserve Major and former Maine National Guardsman Michael Gary lost his position in the Guard and faced multiple investigations…
In a meandering and at times pedantic speech Tuesday night, Gov. Janet Mills (D) defended her proposed FY 26-27 spending…
Gov. Janet Mills (D) delivered her 2025 State of the Budget Address to a joint session of the Maine Legislature…
Gov. Janet Mills (D) will deliver her annual address to a joint session of the Maine State Legislature tonight starting…
Maine is at rock bottom. The state is half a billion dollars in the hole, even after receiving an unprecedented…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) and her finance commissioner have remained silent in the face of bipartisan condemnation of the…
A leading progressive law firm in Maine is advising public school officials on how they can effectively resist potential immigration…
The Senate confirmed Pete Hegseth as the nation’s Secretary of Defense in a vote held late Friday night. With three…
On Jan. 1, working people across the state of Maine started paying their share of a new one percent tax…
Two Democratic lawmakers escalated their efforts to obtain long-overdue reports on Maine’s cannabis industry on Wednesday, writing a letter to…
Maine’s Department of Education (DOE) issued a statement on Tuesday opposing President Donald Trump’s day-one executive order that officially acknowledges…
President Donald Trump signed a wide array of executive orders related to immigration policy and the southern border on his…
Donald J. Trump, once a twice-impeached political pariah navigating the stormy seas of legal battles, made history Monday by becoming…
The left-wing Boston Globe has finally begun to publish articles critical of Gov. Maura Healey (D-Mass.) and the disastrous “Healey…
The Maine State Chamber of Commerce and Bath Iron Works (BIW) have sued the Maine Department of Labor (MDOL) over…
A teen who was the target of a police raid in connection to the “Grand Theft Auto”-style southern Maine drug…
Republican leaders say that any Democratic budget that includes tax increases, such as the budget proposal Gov. Janet Mills (D)…
Gov. Janet Mills (D) released her proposed biennial budget Friday, accompanied by a 129-page piece of enacting legislation. Among these…
The state of Maine is staring down a $450 million “structural deficit” for the 2026-2027 fiscal year. “Structural deficit” is…
Last week, Maine Gov. Janet Mills warned of a $118 million gap in MaineCare funding — a shortfall that appears…
Gov. Janet Mills (D) proposed a new one-dollar-per-pack tax increase on cigarettes Friday. The tax proposal comes as Mills attempts…
The Maine State Police (MSP) have arrested a suspect in the murder of William “Nate” Robinson, 34, of Austinville, Virginia,…
Over the past few years, Maine’s child welfare system has come under fire for its failure to protect the state’s…
As many as 40 percent of the noncitizens present in Maine, including those who entered the U.S. illegally and those…
Many of Maine’s elected officials have issued statements following the death of former President Jimmy Carter at the age of…