The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Maine CDC) is calling for increased regular testing for HIV statewide for…
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Lawmakers in Augusta have approved legislation changing how medical debt is handled in the State of Maine. LD 2115 —…
The Maine House of Representatives voted late Wednesday evening to advance a bill that would institute legal protections for those…
Lawmakers in Augusta have scrapped a bill that would have legalized the possession of illicit drugs, including opioids, swapping it…
A proposed amendment enshrining abortion in Maine’s state constitution failed Wednesday to gain enough support for final passage in the…
Former Republican President Donald Trump announced his stance Monday on abortion and fertility treatments in advance of the 2024 presidential…
The Vatican on Monday released a document condemning transgender surgeries, gender theory and surrogacy as “grave violations” of human dignity,…
The Democratic effort to amend Maine’s Constitution to protect the abortion industry is on life-support after failing to get a…
The City of Portland has released a 2023 Year in Review Homeless Services report detailing the city’s response to the…
Lawmakers in Augusta are considering a bill that has the potential to change how medical debt is handled in the…
Maine’s Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) has been providing worst-in-the-nation child welfare services, regularly making headlines for tragic…
The death of Oklahoma high schooler who identified as “non-binary” caused an uproar among left-wing activists and media, with many…
All four members of Maine’s Congressional delegation have reached out to the federal government for an update regarding a proposed…
The Sanford Police Department are calling on the public to carry Narcan — an opioid overdose reversal drug — and…
Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey says he is “dismayed” at the condemnation of a proposed bill that would expand legal…
Health care providers in the United Kingdom will stop routinely prescribing puberty blockers to minors diagnosed with gender dysphoria, the…
The Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) announced Friday that it received more than $2 million in federal…
As the debate over transgender school policies and sex-change procedures for minors has played out nationwide and in Maine, a…
An effort by Democratic state lawmakers to establish Maine as a “sanctuary state” for child sex-change procedures and late-term abortions…
Leaked internal documents from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), the leading global medical body behind developing “standards…
Lawmakers in Augusta held a public hearing Tuesday for a bill that would institute legal protections for those seeking or…
Following a mysterious cyberattack, Maine pharmacies have been instructed to fill prescriptions of MaineCare members without the ability to verify…
HEARING – Tuesday @ 1:00 pm – Cross Building Room 220 Maine lawmakers will consider Tuesday a proposal to drastically…
Several large Maine hospitals are not in compliance with federal transparency rules regarding online pricing and services information, according to…
A Maine Department of Health and Human Services (Maine DHHS) caseworker allegedly used her position to extort sex from a…
New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) has come under scrutiny for his pilot program to give pre-paid debit cards…
An Illinois Democrat is pushing for a bill that would amend the definition of child abuse to make it a…
A new report from a group of transgender ideology activists has published survey data that conflicts sharply with a recently…
The Maine Supreme Judicial Court heard oral arguments last week concerning the imposition of vaccine mandates on emergency medical technicians…
Maine state legislators are continuing efforts to improve sexual assault kit testing in the state, as kits continue to go…
Maine’s child welfare system has frequently come under fire in recent months for its failure to protect the state’s most…
Editor’s Note: Following the publication of this story, a public affairs professional from Maine Health contacted the Maine Wire asking…
Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey has joined twenty-three other governors in submitting an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court…
A new study from Definitive Healthcare shows that from 2018-2022 the number of people suffering from gender dysphoria in Maine…
Many Mainers turned out to the State House Monday to make their voices heard at the Judiciary Committee’s public hearing…
On Monday, the White House issued two statements commemorating what would have been the 51st anniversary of Roe V. Wade,…
On Monday, January 22, lawmakers on the Judiciary Committee will hold a public hearing for a proposed amendment to Maine’s…
The Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) announced Thursday that it will be making “structural changes” to the…
Healthcare costs in Maine, already higher than most other states, are continuing to increase, and a D.C.-based center-left think tanks…
Maine’s Board of Licensure in Medicine (BOLIM) on Tuesday extended the suspension of Dr. Meryl Nass, an Ellsworth internist who…
One of Maine’s largest healthcare providers threatened to terminate the employment of as many as 500 employees who had not…
The Director of Maine’s Office of Child and Family Services (OCFS) — Todd Landry — has resigned amidst scrutiny over…
A report published last week by the left-wing dark money-funded think tank the Maine Center for Economic Policy (MECEP) advocates…
Several brands of cinnamon apple sauce pouches — typically served to children — have been recalled by the federal Food…
In this column I have devoted most of this space to drawing attention to ways in which state government has…
Democratic leaders on the Legislative Council opted Thursday to kill a bill that would have prohibited the sale of fetal…
The Maine State Legislature next year will consider establishing a “Civil Rights Unit” to educate the public on hate and…
Republican Maine State Rep. Laurel Libby of Auburn announced Monday that she has submitted a bill proposal for the second…
Earlier this year, the State Legislature passed one of the least restrictive abortion laws in the nation — as of…
A Brunswick pastor preaching outside Portland’s Planned Parenthood abortion clinic Tuesday was told by police that he was violating the…
York County now has plans to spend $45 million in an effort to address Maine’s opioid epidemic through the construction…
Maine State Rep. Ann Fredericks (R-Sanford) has submitted a request for a resolution in the second legislative session that would…
Parents across Maine have been left confused in recent days by their children receiving Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards in…
Maine Sen. Angus King and Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W. Va.) earlier this week introduced a bipartisan resolution to designate…
The Portland City Council will host a second public workshop Tuesday on possible policy solutions to the city’s homeless encampment…
Portland’s now-largest homeless encampment at the Marginal Way Park and Ride has approximately doubled in size since August, with a…
The city of Portland has finally discovered who is responsible for the thousands of homeless migrants that have inundated the…
The Maine Medical Association (MMA) last week became the fifth state medical association in the country to endorse a policy…
In a new guidance issued Wednesday, Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo warned young healthy adults under the age of 65…
Washington University announced Monday that their physicians at the Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital will no…
Maine Regional School District 5’s (RSU5) Board of Directors is set to hear a first reading of a new policy…
Portland’s Public Health Division has been selected as a recipient of a $4 million grant from the Centers for Disease…
The owner of Fogg Lighting, a store across from one of Portland’s largest homeless encampments at the Marginal Way Park…
In a letter sent Wednesday to the Biden Administration, several key Congressional committees, and Maine’s Congressional Delegation, Gov. Janet Mills…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills attended a remembrance ceremony Thursday, Aug. 31, on International Overdose Awareness Day — as the total…
Government over-payment of food stamp benefits cost taxpayers a minimum of $11.2 billion in fiscal year 2022, according to a…
Foreign nationals bilked American taxpayers for more than $280 billion as a panicked federal government handed out relief funds during…
California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced Monday a lawsuit to challenge the mandatory gender identity disclosure policy of the Chino…
The following is an op-ed submission from Jay T. Allen, a board certified medical doctor currently living in Maine. He…
The Portland Press Herald collaborated with Gov. Janet Mills’ sister Dora Mills on Friday to hype a new COVID-19 variant…
Dr. Meryl Nass, a Ellsworth doctor who has been a vocal critic of official policies during the pandemic and of…
Maine’s Community College System (MCCS) is still mandating COVID-19 shots for students enrolled in programs that require visiting third-party locations,…
Abortion has been at the forefront of politics in Maine this past year. From the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn…
Nurses and other health care workers at MaineGeneral Health, one of Maine’s largest healthcare providers, were unceremoniously fired two years…
Speak Up for Life, a pro-life organization run by Rep. Laurel Libby (R-Auburn), has decided today against pursuing a People’s…
Maine’s Democratic House leadership blamed “older white guys” in their party for opposition to Gov. Janet Mills’ late-term abortion bill…
The Maine Department of Health and Human Services began “unwinding” MaineCare’s 400,000-plus enrollment two months ago by “redetermining” all recipients’…
Public records from Maine’s child welfare agency show multiple child protective services employees were disciplined, but not fired, for failures…
An insider at MaineHealth, the state’s largest healthcare organization, is sounding the alarm on the frequency with which transgender children…
On Friday, Gov. Janet Mills (D) signed LD 1364 into law, officially establishing a working group to study the potential…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills sent an email Friday letting subscribers know that she signed a bill that will allow 16-year-olds…
Last week city officials in Sanford suspended a syringe exchange program and cleaned up a homeless encampment at Heritage Crossing…
The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Constitution and Limited Government held a hearing Thursday on “the dangers and due process violations…
When a flyer produced by the Maine Attorney General’s Office on the state’s abortion laws became politically problematic for Gov.…
The following is an op-ed submission from Jay T. Allen, a board certified medical doctor currently living in Maine. He…
The following report from Chris Woodard was originally published in NH Journal. It is re-published here with permission. To read…
U.S. Representative for Maine’s 2nd congressional district Jared Golden was the only House Democrat to vote in favor of reinstating…
Maine’s Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) recommended lifting the statewide mandate that healthcare workers receive injections related to…
On Thursday Democrats in Maine’s House of Representatives reaffirmed their support for a bill that would extend taxpayer-funded MaineCare benefits…
The Mount Desert Island Hospital in Bar Harbor has notified 24,180 patients that their private patient records may have been…
Democratic Gov. Janet Mills endorsed the largest state tax increase on Maine workers in more than two decades Thursday with…
Mainers must be 21-years-old to buy tobacco products and at least 18-years-old to use a tanning salon. But if Gov.…
Maine’s State Senate on Tuesday blocked a proposed amendment that would have put a four-year moratorium on the trafficking of…
Democratic lawmakers voted Friday to kill a bill that would have prohibited public school employees from addressing students by alternative…
On Monday Maine’s House of Representatives passed a bill sponsored by House Speaker Rachel Talbot Ross (D-Portland) that would extend…
After Democrats in Maine’s House of Representatives narrowly passed Governor Janet Mills’ controversial late-term abortion bill in the early hours…
The Maine House of Representatives voted Thursday night to approve Democratic Gov. Janet Mills’ plan to eliminate restrictions on late-term…
During her testimony Thursday in opposition to Gov. Janet Mills’ late-term abortion bill, LD 1619, a top Republican alleged that…
If lawmakers voted to approve a paid leave program — funded by a new one percent payroll tax on workers…
The Senate voted Tuesday to require MaineCare reimbursement for “medically necessary treatment for or related to gender dysphoria,” following a…