U.S. Border Patrol agents from Maine’s Houlton Sector have arrested another pair of Ecuadorian illegal immigrants during a vehicle stop,…
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Mainers on social media are voicing their acute disapproval of the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (IFW) in response…
An effort to draft the leadership of the Wabanaki Alliance into taking a position on the war in Gaza is…
Second District Congressman Jared Golden (D-ME) put to rest speculation about his 2026 plans on Tuesday morning when he declared…
A former colleague of the now-resigned Maine Office of New Americans director Tarlan Ahmadov has alleged that while working together…
Sen. Matt Harrington (R-York) presented a bill on Thursday that would prevent Maine from using financial institutions’ merchant category codes…
Cape Elizabeth residents will return to the polls on June 10 to again weigh in on a multi-million dollar proposal…
The Maine House and Senate will be holding a session day on Tuesday and both legislative calendars are very long.…
Former Maine Assistant Attorney General James M. Cameron, 62, was released from a Colorado prison on Friday, where he had…
Lawmakers have rejected two bills introduced with the intention of expanding employment opportunities for young Mainers. While LD 618 would…
Gateway Community Services, the migrant-run social services agency now facing multiple whistleblower allegations of artificially inflating Medicaid billing, received a grant…
A Portland woman was arrested after a federal investigation on Friday for allegedly making threatening phone calls to a U.S.…
The Maine State Legislature’s Judiciary Committee held a public hearing on Friday for a “common sense and natural order” bill…
The Maine State Police are investigating the death of a four-year-old child who was found in a Lewiston apartment with…
Rep. Josh Morris (R-Turner) appeared on the Ray Richardson radio show on Monday morning and sharply criticized former Democratic Senate…
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Former Maine Senate president Troy Jackson announced Monday morning that he is officially running for governor and plans to launch…
Two 18-year-olds have been arrested on arson charges, the Maine State Fire Marshal announced on Thursday, and are suspected of…
Portland Police officers arrested a homeless man on Thursday night after they received a report of a stabbing incident. [RELATED:…
The South Portland Police Department arrested a potentially dangerous burglary suspect on Tuesday, following a case of mistaken identity that…
State Sen. Jim Libby (R-Cumberland) has registered to run in the Republican Party primary for the 2026 gubernatorial election, according…
Almost everyone agrees doing business in Maine is much harder than it needs to be. According to the Maine Jobs…
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A new poll reveals a bipartisan majority of Maine voters oppose several progressive education policies supported by Gov. Janet Mills’…
The Maine Drug Enforcement Agency (MDEA) arrested Abdirahman A. Abdullahi, 26, of Portland, during a drug bust on Wednesday, seizing…
The Legislature’s Veterans and Legal Affairs (VLA) Committee heard a number of regulatory proposals for the cannabis industry on May…
There wasn’t a dry eye in the Blaine House on Thursday when Maine Governor Janet Mills (D) broke the bittersweet…
The Portland Police Department executed a sting operation on Thursday that led to the arrest of the homeless lifetime sex…
Seven Republicans in the Maine Senate voted with Democrats on Wednesday against a GOP-led bill that would have stopped the…
Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) arrests in the Houlton border sector, encompassing all of Maine’s border with Canada, reached a…
Following an investigation into a shots fired incident on Grant Street in Portland on Sunday night, city police made an…
Get-Off-My-Lawn party poopers trying to defuse July 4th fireworks locally and statewide are winning few converts along Maine’s midcoast. First…
Lawmakers have unanimously shot down two proposed amendments to Maine’s constitution that would have lowered the voting age to 16…
Maine lawmakers are poised to reject along nearly partisan lines a proposal to reinstate the municipal property tax levy limits…
A Maine Superior Court Justice has ruled that despite a pending appeal, hearings will begin to be scheduled for low-income…
A sex offender convicted on child pornography charges has allegedly been living illegally within the 750-foot exclusion zone around South…
Josh Polland, a former Maine game warden, sat for an interview with the Christian Civic League of Maine that was…
On a wall outside the State House in Augusta, 90 names of law enforcement officers who died in the line…
Maine Speaker of the House Ryan Fecteau (D-Biddeford) is seeking regulatory changes to affordable housing law in the state with…
Following a traffic stop at the intersection of Hammond and Union Streets Monday evening, Bangor Police arrested Thomas Pope, 48,…
Democratic lawmakers in Augusta have brought forward a bill that looks to enact a statewide prohibition on “dynamic pricing” in…
Maine lawmakers appear prepared to pass a Republican-backed bill aimed at increasing transparency in Maine’s public school transfer program. In…
A bill that would have allowed Mennonites to self-insure their vehicles so that they could comply with a religious prohibition…
A Democratic lawmaker has proposed allowing cities and towns throughout Maine to adopt a local option sales tax on adult…
A group Democrats, led by Rep. Deqa Dhalac (D-South Portland), put forward a bill late in the current legislative session…
The Worcester, Mass., Police Union is calling City Councilor Etel Haxhiaj “unfit to serve” and demanding an ethics investigation after…
If The New York Times ever had any pretense of journalistic balance, it has now fully outed its true liberal…
A homeless man has been charged with arson after allegedly starting a fire that damaged a commercial building in Bangor.…
A Portsmouth, New Hampshire assistant track coach was arrested last month in South Portland as part of a child prostitution…
An activist group in Dexter has secured enough signatures to force a recall vote for two conservative Maine School Administrative…
Maine’s Second District Congressman Jared Golden must be feeling his seat’s gotten a little hotter after current State Auditor Matthew…
One Maine Republican lawmaker has introduced a bill that would create a refundable tax credit designed to help fund private…
Wiscasseteers who long ago trademarked their town “prettiest village in Maine” apparently haven’t been to Camden. To see the waterfall…
The Mills Administration’s spending via state contracts has come under increasing scrutiny in light of Democratic State Auditor Matt Dunlap’s…
An attempted traffic stop on I-295 in Topsham on Sunday escalated into a high-speed pursuit and a domestic violence investigation…
A group of Mainers who successfully petitioned to have a referendum question on voter ID have challenged Secretary of State…
During the not-so-long-ago Biden Administration years, certain Democratic officials seemed to operate under an unwritten rule: if your politics were…
The Waterville teacher, who made international headlines late last month after publicly calling for the assassination of President Donald Trump…
Two people, including a man who was on probation for prior drug trafficking convictions, were arrested last week in Auburn…
Some states lead in nonsense – and public corruption. Sadly, Maine is one of these. As Maine’s Democrat-controlled legislative session…
Acting on behalf of a concerned citizen, a state representative has introduced an amendment to the Maine Constitution prohibiting any…
Maine lawmakers are divided over a proposal to do away with the cost-of-living adjustment for the state’s minimum wage. Under…
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,…
Lawmakers in Augusta considered a series of bills Thursday afternoon pertaining to the regulation of Maine’s sometimes corybantic cannabis industry.…
Biddeford High School was put on lockdown Friday morning after a reported threat that led to the arrest of an…
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) announced on Thursday that the U.S. Department of Justice has selected Lewiston’s Maine Resiliency Center to…
Detectives from the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office arrested three people early Friday morning after they were allegedly caught tearing down…
Maine’s Regional School Unit (RSU) 24 school board voted on Tuesday to join the Hodgdon School Board in defying Gov.…
Maine State Attorney General Aaron Frey filed an 11-page response on Thursday to the civil action the U.S. Department of…
U.S. Border Patrol agents in Maine have arrested over a dozen illegal aliens from Ecuador in recent weeks as a…
A man convicted of murder in Brazil who illegally entered and hid out in the United States under the Biden…
Second District Congressman Jared Golden (D-ME) is taking friendly fire from a national group that commits itself to resisting the…
An ex-Portland Press Herald scribe who calls Trump “an authoritarian threat” will soon be joined on a Maine stage by…
Augusta hosted a showdown on May 7 between proponents of measures to restore girls’ school sports to biological females and…
U.S. Sen. Susan Collins (R) on Thursday issued her strongest call yet for President Donald Trump and federal law enforcement…
Cannabis took center stage in Augusta Thursday afternoon before the Legislature’s Veterans and Legal Affairs Committee, which heard public testimony…
The Legislature’s Transportation Committee voted unanimously Thursday morning to reject a bill proposed by Rep. Laurel Libby (R-Auburn) intended to…
Biddeford’s hard work to usher in an urban renaissance has been challenged of late by one family where murder appears…
When Wells town officials tried to defend being the only Maine town working with federal immigration officials, guess who quickly…
Lewiston Police on Monday night responded to a shots fired incident at an affordable housing complex that witnesses described as…
Rep. Laurie Osher (D-Orono) presented a bill before the Committee on Housing and Urban Development on Tuesday that would establish…
A bill repealing the prohibition against charging uninsured patients for COVID-19 vaccinations that received unanimous support in the Legislature became…
Maine lawmakers are divided over a bill that would require state agencies and officials to fulfill Freedom of Access Act…
Secretary of State Shenna Bellows has released the final question wording for the voter ID citizens initiative introduced in Augusta…
On June 20th, 2019, Governor Janet Mills (D) signed LD 534, a bill to make ballot initiative questions easier to…
By Matthew Cortez As inflation cuts into Mainers’ savings, individuals and businesses are actively seeking ways to protect their hard-earned…
During the bad old days of the Soviet Union, a state official could legally shirk punishment by pretending to sick…
Portland Police on Tuesday arrested a homeless man who had 18 outstanding warrants for his arrest, including for four felony…
The Maine District of the U.S. Marshals Service issued an arrest warrant on Tuesday for Kristofer G. Haken, 46, an…
A midcoast Maine city that went from raucous motorcycle gangs to boutique coffee houses has now once again flipped the…
The Committee on Environment and Natural Resources voted unanimously last month in favor of a bill from Rep. Arthur Bell…
The Maine State Legislature’s Housing and Economic Development Committee heard public testimony Tuesday on a bill that would make it…
Rep. Katrina Smith (R-Palermo) presented a bill on Monday on behalf of House Minority Leader Billy Bob Faulkingham (R-Winter Harbor),…
A traffic stop in Medway late last month led to two arrests and the seizure of over 30 grams of…
An unidentified man was caught on camera allegedly keying a Tesla on Sunday outside a Portland Hearts of Pine soccer…
A homeless man who had eight outstanding warrants for his arrest was taken into custody on Monday after allegedly assaulting…
Sen. Anne Beebe-Center wants to limit celebrations and curtail Mainers’ fun with a bill to reduce the hours allowed for…
Maine Attorney General (AG) Aaron Frey has joined a group of twenty attorneys general in filing a lawsuit against Secretary…
Border Patrol agents in Maine arrested nearly a dozen illegal aliens who were found in a vehicle during a traffic…
