A Rockland woman has been charged with her second Operating Under the Influence (OUI) offense after leading police on a…
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Lawmakers have unanimously agreed to prevent medical debt from being factored into Mainers’ credit scores. Although State Law currently has…
The Satanic Temple’s abortion branch, TST Health, announced the creation of a new telehealth abortion provider serving Maine, deliberately set…
The political fallout stemming from the weekend revelation that the office of Secretary of State Shenna Bellows (D-Hallowell) has recalled…
Scarborough public school officials sent out a letter to the community this week warning of potential threats from Nihilistic Violent…
As the saying goes “you can take the boy out of the country but you can’t take the country out…
He who pays the piper calls the tune, the old saying goes. Looking closely at the most recent dust-up under…
In Augusta these days, keeping up with the latest legislative head-scratchers can be a full-time job. But one proposal stands…
South Portland residents are set to vote on a proposed $73 million school budget next Tuesday amidst concerns over public…
Maine’s House and Senate have been going back and forth for the past couple of weeks over whether or not…
House lawmakers engaged in a lengthy and impassioned debate Thursday morning over a bill requiring a photo ID to cast…
Long Creek Youth Development Center in South Portland, Maine’s only juvenile correctional facility, will be spending nearly $30,000 to purchase…
The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Maine CDC) on Friday issued a press release celebrating a record high…
The Maine State Legislature has unanimously approved a bill increasing the number of children for whom childcare providers may be…
A Guatemalan national was sentenced in a Maine federal court on Wednesday for illegal reentry into the U.S. after a…
The internet has blown up with speculators discussing how two Mount Katahdin hikers died amid obvious warning signs to abandon…
The Democrats of the Kennebunks and Arundel (DKA) is looking to form a “Rapid Response Team” in case of U.S.…
An Egyptian national with alleged ties to a terrorist organization was arrested by U.S. Border Patrol (USBP) agents in Pittsfield…
Advocates of gun control measures often speak of a “cooling off period” — usually in reference to a delay on…
The Maine House passed a net neutrality bill Wednesday with bipartisan support, as three Republican lawmakers crossed party lines to…
The Maine State Legislature’s Judiciary Committee came to three different recommendations on Wednesday to three bills prescribing how state and…
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published a list of jurisdictions with “sanctuary” policies that obstruct immigration enforcement late…
Long-time U.S. House Speaker Tip O’Neill famously said “all politics is local,” and he could just have easily been talking…
A Harpswell Democrat’s bill to levy an additional four percent tax on income earned over $1 million in order to…
The Maine State Police on Wednesday released the identity of a woman found dead at a home in Lewiston earlier…
‘I’m Going to Be Really Crude’: Dem Rep Bluntly Says America Needs Migrants To Wipe Asses (Screenshot/YouTube/Representative Becca Balint)
You learn every day talking with people, listening to their stories, absorbing their anger, fear, and concerns and channeling that…
After rejecting a number of bills aimed at repealing or amending Maine’s new Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML) Program…
A Portland homeless man was arrested Wednesday morning for allegedly stabbing another homeless man in the city’s downtown area. Portland…
The Maine Legislature’s Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee met Wednesday afternoon to finalize its recommendations on three hotly-debated firearm-related…
U.S. Border Patrol (USBP) in Maine is reporting a recent spike in apprehensions, including the removal of 42 illegal aliens…
Here’s the version you’re getting from Maine’s dying legacy media: A brave and loving New Mainer from China who did nothing…
The Maine Department of Education (DOE) issued a no-bid contract this week spending nearly $30,000 on English language classes for…
One Maine GOP lawmaker has sought to establish a new special committee tasked with reviewing routine technical rule-making by state…
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), with the help of multiple federal agencies, arrested nearly 1,500 illegal aliens during the…
The Maine House of Representatives considered an additional series of bills during Monday’s session pertaining to the state’s new Paid…
A Portland sex offender, Steven Ricci, 61, is set to be released at the end of June despite what the…
Maine’s House of Representatives narrowly voted to decriminalize the possession of one ounce or less of psilocybin for persons 21…
A 30-year-old Lewiston man was arrested on Monday after an investigation showed that he allegedly used a social media account…
The Maine House narrowly passed a bill on Monday that will make life and work more difficult for Mainers employed…
The Opportunity Alliance, a homeless and substance abuse service provider based in South Portland, has agreed to a nearly $350,000…
Early frontrunners in the 2026 Maine gubernatorial race suggest the field is still just beginning to develop on both the…
It may be a sign of the times that both chambers of the Maine Legislature passed a bill on Monday…
Tensions flared in the Maine House chamber Monday night as Republican lawmakers staged a walkout in protest over extended legislative…
Flight Deck Brewing in Brunswick is under investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Wage and Hour Division for…
House lawmakers in Augusta rejected two bills during Monday’s session taking aim at Maine’s new Paid Family and Medical Leave…
Who’s afraid of a public hearing? Maine legislative Republicans held a press conference on Monday to call out a move…
An effort to make the process of Maine public school students transferring from one district to another more transparent was…
Taking your car in every year for its inspection sticker is a familiar ordeal to all Maine drivers, and a…
Maine legislators have killed a bill that would have abolished the state’s income tax and required agencies to regularly engage…
Ogunquit police officers will be wearing new “LGBTQ+ pride patches” throughout June for “Pride Month,” which is typically celebrated through…
Portland Police last week apprehended a fugitive wanted by federal law enforcement after officers chased him down and found him…
The Maine Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) sent 42 illegal immigrants out of state for further deportation proceedings on a…
Lawmakers in Maine’s House of Representatives voted unanimously on Monday to pass “An Act to Adopt Eastern Daylight Time Year-round…
The Maine School Administrative District (MSAD) 52 school board voted Thursday night to send a potential change to its transgender…
On Monday, the Maine House of Representatives will meet for a legislative session to tackle a whopping 45 divided reports…
A proposal by a Knox County Democrat legislator for a “regional living wage” – supposedly to help people afford housing…
Maine House Republicans have called upon Democratic lawmakers to produce their proposed budget documents, including the details of their plan…
A Linneus man on Tuesday became the 20th person to be sentenced for his role in a northern Maine drug…
Maine’s attempt to establish a so-called student wage has been rejected along nearly partisan lines in the State Legislature. Under…
Maine lawmakers have officially shot down a proposed constitutional amendment that would have effectively prevented future Legislatures from engaging the…
Democratic lawmakers on the Maine Legislature’s Judiciary Committee on Friday afternoon chose to carry over two bills that would abolish…
The Heritage Foundation has filed a lawsuit against Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) for allegedly violating the state’s Freedom of…
A joint operation by the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency (MDEA) and the Washington County Sheriff’s Office on Thursday at two…
U.S. Border Patrol (USBP) agents from Maine’s Rangeley Station last week arrested a Salvadoran illegal alien gang member wanted by…
Maine’s in one heck of a mess. Our country is changing course for the better, but Maine Democrats who run…
Maine lawmakers appear poised to reject a bill directing the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to reimburse hospitals…
Three 18-year-olds have been arrested in connection to a December 2024 shooting at Portland’s Peppermint Park, including two suspects who…
Out Maine, an LGBTQ non-profit that pushes radical gender ideology on children, received three new grants this month to help…
Remember the good ole days in Maine when would-be politicians would run for office on nothing but grit – knowing…
A Mexico man with an extensive criminal history in Maine described by police as a “known menace” has been arrested…
The upcoming June 10 election for the Regional School Unit (RSU) 40 school board could have significant consequences for girls…
A man accused of firing a gun at passing vehicles in Lewiston on Tuesday evening was arrested after a standoff…
A Lewiston woman is facing a slate of drug charges after being found with over 20 grams of fentanyl during…
The Maine Department of Corrections (DOC) has denied access to the Supervised Community Confinement Program (SCCP) for Mark Cardilli, a…
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other federal law enforcement agencies on Tuesday conducted an immigration enforcement operation on…
On the evening of Tuesday, May 27th shortly before 7pm, the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office made a routine stop for…
President Donald Trump took to Truth Social on Tuesday to celebrate Maine fishermen and to discuss his work to remove…
A Maine man on the run from New Hampshire authorities due to a probation violation stemming from a domestic violence…
Four years ago, a founder of Maine Stands Up addressed a standing room only crowd in a Topsham church during…
A former Maine Medical Center finance director has thrown his hat into the ring with a growing field of Republicans…
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Maine is challenging the detention of a noncitizen from the Democratic Republic of…
Kenneth Marin, 61, of Jay, was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Friday following a February conviction for repeatedly…
The Somerset County Sheriff’s Office last week raided the American Lodge in Fairfield, resulting in one arrest and the seizure…
The nanny state is now coming after a Camden man whose bird-feeding hobby town authorities say far exceeds the norm…
Maine State Police arrested the husband of a Hermon Middle School teacher, Aaron M. Pinette, 42, on Friday on child…
The Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center, a Portland-based migrant nonprofit that provides English language classes and other services to immigrants,…
A Honduran illegal alien who was arrested outside of a convenience store in Brownville in March has been sentenced and…
Topsham’s Mt. Ararat High School is losing its athletics director at the end of the school-year, according to a resignation…
Reya N. Jasmin, 36, a transgender-identifying New Hampshire man, is facing charges for allegedly stabbing his wife to death on…
In the wake of famed Rockland world-champion canner Rita Willey’s golden sardine era, Maine’s shuttered canneries have taken far-divergent directions…
Special agents with the FBI in Boston arrested Brian Hargraves, 54, of Albany, New Hampshire, on Tuesday after he allegedly…
The Mount Desert Island (MDI) Hospital is taking disciplinary action against five nurses who participated in a Maine State Nurses…
An Alabama man is facing federal charges for allegedly sending threatening text messages to employees of Bangor International Airport, saying…
An Indian national pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court in Boston to serving as a getaway driver in staged armed…
Gov. Janet Mills (D-Maine) approved a series of financial orders between May 13 and 14 to keep payrolls and other…
Magistrate Judge Karen Wolf heard arguments Thursday morning in a lawsuit filed against members of the state’s ethics commission and…
Lawmakers on the Legislature’s tax committee are expected to unanimously reject a bill that would impose an additional four percent…
Civic, law enforcement, legislative leaders and subject matter experts will hold a conference in Brewer on Friday evening to discuss…
Democrats on the state legislature’s Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety (CJPS) teamed up on Monday to kill a…
