Gov. Janet Mills (D) has signed a bill into law expanding access to the state’s Fund To Address Food Insecurity…
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The Way Way Store, which has it every which way, and from way, way back, is shutting down after a…
PORTLAND, Maine – Maine U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner is facing another entirely avoidable controversy after amplifying a post from…
Let’s hear it for Maine blueberries – you know, the ones that don’t get “recalled.”Four states are facing a serious…
The U.S. Attorney’s Office in New Hampshire identified the man accused of shooting at a Border Patrol agent on Sunday…
LEWISTON, Maine — Voters in Maine House District 94 head to the polls Tuesday, Feb. 24 in a special election…
Amy McCrea has seen crime from both sides, first as a patrol officer and now as a victim-witness advocate.Bangor Police…
LEWISTON, Maine — Hundreds of tips about adult autism group homes have poured into The Maine Wire in recent days…
PORTLAND, Maine — More than a dozen residents at Portland Center for Assisted Living say they have been living with…
The commander of the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Mason has been relieved of duty, military officials announced Sunday.They didn’t disclose…
AUGUSTA, Maine – Maine’s winter electricity pain isn’t a fluke, it’s a structural problem, according to a February 2026 Brattle…
LEWISTON, Maine — The Lewiston City Council is poised to fast-track an emergency ordinance aimed at limiting how city employees…
AUGUSTA, Maine — Gov. Janet Mills and her allies in the Legislature have often pitched LD 210 as routine budget…
Back in those early, heady days of the Biden administration there was some loose talk about nominating U.S. Sen. Angus…
AUGUSTA, Maine — State Rep. Reagan Paul (R) introduced a joint resolution Thursday, in the Maine House honoring Turning Point…
Maine Director of Elections and Voter Registration Heidi Peckham sent out a notice to municipal clerks warning them to follow…
LEWISTON, Maine – The Maine Community Foundation’s Feb. 9 website update meant to answer criticism over how Lewiston shooting-related donations…
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) officially announced her re-election bid on Tuesday via an op-ed in the Bangor Daily News and…
The southern Maine sheriff who went from loving federal-ICE inmates to blasting the federal agency that helped pay his bills…
LEWISTON, Maine — More than two years after Maine’s deadliest mass shooting, the fight over who benefited from donations raised…
The Maine Army National Guard is paying tribute to a Presque Isle fisherman lost at sea off Gloucester, Massachusetts. Staff…
LEWISTON, Maine — Residents and elected officials returned once again to the Lewiston City Council chambers this week, urging city…
A Noble High School student was killed on Thursday after a crash between a pickup truck and an Amtrak Downeaster…
Somali-born state Rep. Yusuf Yusuf (D-Portland) runs a home care business with apparent ties to an interconnected network of Somali-operated…
PORTLAND, Maine – Graham Platner, a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, sharply criticized Sen. Susan Collins on Thursday during a…
For some 45 years Eric Furry held court at his popular hangout known as Pro Libris Books on Third Street.…
The 2011 pre-Christmas mystery surrounding a missing 20-month-old continues to tug at her family. But cops still have no answers…
PORTLAND, Maine – ICE deputy assistant director is firing back at the growing chorus of Maine media and political criticism…
PORTLAND, Maine — The City of Portland will open an emergency overnight warming shelter this weekend, operating Friday, Saturday and…
Democrats on Maine’s Legislative Council voted on Thursday against considering an emergency bill that would require Secretary of State Shenna…
LEWISTON — Ifraax Saciid-Ciise, a Lewiston Somali interpreter and nonprofit director, is now the face of a widening backlash over…
The U.S. federal government is demanding a $28.7 million refund from Maine as an audit uncovers rampant documentation failures in…
The Maine Wire can exclusively confirm that ICE agents arrested an Angolan national who has been working as a York…
The Rockland Police Department arrested a Hope man on Tuesday morning after a local business reportedly lost over $3,000 in…
An Anti-ICE protester deliberately interfered with the Brewer Police Department and blew an air horn at officers while they investigated…
LEWISTON, Maine — Safiya Khalid, a former Lewiston city councilor and former employee of Gateway Community Services, is facing sharp…
AUGUSTA, Maine — Republican gubernatorial candidate Bobby Charles is escalating his campaign’s law-and-order message with a new social media video…
PORTLAND, Maine — U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner, a Democrat, posted a video to social media warning that Immigration and…
PORTLAND, Maine — Maine state Rep. Deqa Dhalac urged Somali-Americans in Maine to pour “our time our money our skills”…
AUGUSTA, Maine — Gov. Janet Mills says she now supports a “full investigation” into Gateway Community Services after state audits…
A Camden woman who wrote a book-length tribute to her granddaughter – killed in the nation’s worst mass shooting -…
LEWISTON, Maine — What should have been a routine step to fill a vacant City Council seat turned into a…
AUGUSTA, Maine — Former Maine Senate Majority Leader Garrett Mason officially launched his campaign for governor on Wednesday, jumping into…
The Democrat-controlled House of Representatives attempted to ban Maine Wire reporter Jon Fetherston from entering the House chamber alongside other…
LEWISTON, Maine — The Lewiston City Council voted 6–1 to open an investigation into the residency qualifications of newly sworn-in…
BRUNSWICK, Maine — A 47-year-old Woolwich man was killed Friday night after his vehicle left the roadway on a Brunswick…
A Maine mom has now asked the United States Supreme Court to consider her case against a Damariscotta school in…
Gov. Janet Mills has spent months on the campaign trail boasting that she “stood up to” President Donald Trump, repeatedly…
It was a tragedy piled on a tragedy is how one Lincoln County resident described the December 27 homicide of…
As working families in Maine and Massachusetts get crushed by higher taxes, higher rents, and higher grocery bills, two governors…
The familiar Maine department store Renys has now broken even more hearts, going out of business a day earlier than…
The recent heist of 40,000 oysters from a farm in Falmouth is now believed to be the first of a…
Hundreds of participants are set to ring in the New Year by charging into the Atlantic Ocean in front of…
Federal agents visited a property in Lewiston on Tuesday that has been the source of repeated reports of fraud and…
A rollover crash in Buxton on Monday injured four people, including one person who was ejected from the vehicle, according…
Democratic state Rep. Deqa Dhalac (South Portland) is facing intensifying scrutiny as a widening state and federal investigation into alleged…
The mother of a 1-year-old twin found dead Sunday in Milford says she is “tired of people making assumptions” about…
It has been more than four months since Maine courts threw a shroud of secrecy over the proceedings in the…
Maine Republicans intensified their attack Tuesday over alleged MaineCare fraud tied to Gateway Community Services, warning that the case exposes…
Dozens of federal agents working with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security probed multiple locations in Lewiston on Tuesday that…
Police are searching for the driver of a silver SUV who struck a pedestrian in a marked crosswalk Sunday evening…
A Bangor organization raising money for the family of a twin girl who died prematurely is either well-intentioned or jumping…
Federal agents are now going door to door at businesses across Minnesota as part of a sweeping fraud crackdown, a…
Gov. Janet Mills (D), a candidate for the U.S. Senate, is trumpeting a $190 million federal health care award for…
U.S. Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) announced Monday that Maine will receive $190 million in first-year funding through the Rural Health…
Maine Republican legislative leaders will hold a press conference Tuesday to discuss allegations of MaineCare fraud involving Gateway Community Services,…
The Togus Veterans Administration Medical Center is preparing to begin accepting veterans transported by ambulance starting January 1, 2026, after…
Maine marked a year of notable losses in 2025, as prominent figures from politics, business, athletics, and the arts passed…
A condemned building tied to a federal drug bust is continuing to appear on paper as a business address and…
Maine residents will see higher taxes and fees across multiple everyday purchases starting January 1, 2026, as a slate of…
The dark horse in Maine’s Democrat U.S. Senate primary went full bore on Christmas for his last, big end-of-year money…
A Corinth man is facing a murder charge following a fatal shooting Saturday morning at a Main Street residence. According…
A Christmas Day house fire in Brunswick was quickly brought under control Thursday afternoon, with investigators pointing to an electrical…
Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows is again under fire as the League of Women Voters of Maine steps in…
As Maine continues to grapple with fallout from the Gateway Communities scandal and other nonprofit controversies, Gov. Janet Mills has…
Maine State Police are investigating the death of a one-year-old child who was found unresponsive Sunday morning at a residence…
“To the person who took my pocketbook backpack from Hannaford in Hampden would you be so kind to return it?”…
The Maine State Fire Marshal’s Office, working alongside the Portland Fire Department, is continuing its investigation into a Friday evening…
Let’s be clear: the collapse of Gateway Communities did not come out of nowhere.It happened on Janet Mills’ watch, after…
The Maine State Police have confirmed a murder-suicide following the discovery of two deceased adults at a Tremont residence earlier…
Maine politics in 2025 were defined by confrontation, controversy, and growing public distrust, as a high-stakes U.S. Senate race, mass…
Maine leads the nation in one important category, a national news network recently suggested: dynastic politics. Looking ahead to the…
More than two years after the deadliest mass shooting in Maine history, victims and their families say they are still…
A widening investigation by the U.S. House Oversight and Accountability Committee into alleged Medicaid fraud has placed new scrutiny on…
A new statewide economic analysis released this month paints a stark picture of prosperity split sharply between the greater Portland…
Former prosecutor and well-known TV crime fighter Nancy Grace is spotlighting a suspiciously-missing Maine girl. On her Christmas-eve show, “Crime…
Influenza cases are surging across Maine far earlier and harder than health officials typically see, with new data showing infections…
State fire investigators have arrested two men in connection with a house fire in Augusta that authorities say was intentionally…
Bipartisan legislation authored by U.S. Sen. Susan Collins (R) and Sen. Mark Warner (D) aimed at strengthening the security of…
Longtime midcoast Maine summer visitors Connie Chung and Maury Povich nearly got into it in a verbal battle over a…
Governor Janet Mills has ordered all State of Maine government offices closed Wednesday, December 24, as an overnight storm system…
Maine’s Department of Health and Human Services has suspended MaineCare payments to Gateway Community Services after a newly completed state…
Amid the Mills Administration’s unchecked spending, including thousands of pages and billions of dollars on no-bid contracts, it’s also expending…
A powerful congressional committee is demanding federal financial records tied to a Maine nonprofit that has come under scrutiny following…
The U.S. Border Patrol Houlton Sector arrested an Ecuadorian illegal immigrant in Rangeley early this month with a criminal history…
The Maine State Police are gathering information after local police discovered two dead adults in Tremont. [RELATED: Maine State Police…
A suspect allegedly trashed a Waterville police cruiser on Sunday after ramming it with a stolen vehicle while attempting to…
Over the past five years, the Maine Attorney General’s Office, led by Aaron Frey (D) has secured more than $260…
The City of Portland Public Art Committee has announced an open call for artists to submit qualifications for a new…
The CSX railroad company began clearing a Bangor homeless encampment on Monday morning that was located on their property near…