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A Cornville man will serve two years in prison after pleading guilty to multiple counts of sexual assault, following an…
A Guatemalan national living illegally in the U.S. since at least 2011 has been arrested by U.S. Immigrations and Customs…
At their meeting next Tuesday, the Sanford City Council will consider adopting a resolution seeking to reform the city’s state-licensed…
The ex-wife of State Rep. Holly Eaton (D-Deer Isle) allegedly stole a political sign supporting the independent candidate trying to…
The Maine Department of Education (Maine DOE) entered into a “partnership” with the nonprofit Maine Trust for Local News in…
The New England Fishermen’s Stewardship Association (NEFSA) will be sending Gov. Janet Mills a petition with over 2,500 signatures urging…
Law enforcement seized three firearms from an Ogunquit inn housing 20 noncitizen “scholar” visa holders after a report of shots…
The Maine State Board of Nursing suspended the medical license of nurse Matthew Clifford Field after he allegedly sexually harassed…
A Peru, Maine woman has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for drug trafficking charges after selling more…
At the close of a Monday evening forum between Maine’s Second Congressional District candidates Congressman Jared Golden (D) and State…
Police are actively looking for a suspect believed to be responsible for a stabbing at a dollar store in Sanford’s…
On the anniversary of terrorist attack against Israel carried out by the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023,…
The number of veterans experiencing homelessness in Maine nearly quadrupled from 2021 to 2022, and remains at levels higher than…
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced in September that it would be reducing certain Medicare prescription drug…
The U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) on Friday announced that they have arrested 40 fugitives wanted for various violent offenses as…
Add Bath to the long and growing list of Maine towns set to see property taxes head higher. Residents of…
The Maine Labor Climate Council, a purported coalition of labor unions pushing for offshore wind development in the Gulf of…
Maine cities and towns — but not all of them — have already begun voting in the 2024 elections, with…
A political action committee (PAC) founded by the Maine Education Association this week spent $75,500 on digital advertisements in support…
An Ellsworth man on federal supervised release for a previous conviction for possessing child pornography this week was sentenced to…
The National Border Patrol Union endorsed State Rep. Austin Theriault (R-Fort Kent) Thursday in his bid to unseat incumbent Democrat…
The Gorham Police Department is warning residents to lock their cars after responding to more than 20 motor vehicle burglaries…
The Maine State Library is spending nearly $13,000 in taxpayer funds to create a toolkit meant for “caregivers” to teach…
A Lewiston man was sentenced to 35 years in prison on Tuesday in a Portland federal court for sexually exploiting…
The State of Maine is projected to face a massive shortfall of nearly $1 billion for fiscal years 2026 and…
Electric Vehicles (EVs) have become a flashpoint in Maine politics over the past year thanks to an effort by the…
The Lewiston Police Department on Tuesday announced that they had executed two search warrants, resulting in the seizure of a…
The Rockland Police Department announced on Tuesday that their officers will now be equipped with a new Kevlar cord restraint…
According to the Public Access Ombudsman’s 2023 Report, state-level agencies received nearly three thousand requests under the Maine’s Freedom of…
A Lewiston man pleaded guilty on Friday in a Bangor federal court to filing a fraudulent application to obtain an…
What started in 2008 as a small school for orphaned refugees living in Uganda is an operation that now provides…
A member of a Portland Public Schools committee charged with redrawing the school district’s attendance boundaries in order to address…
A longtime Democratic politician and government employee has been hired in a $121,000-a-year position at the Maine Department of Education…
U.S. Sen. Angus King (I-Maine), who has for years fashioned himself as an “independent” or a “moderate” despite backing exclusively…
A homeless man who earlier this year was charged with assaulting people with a machete, and who a month ago…
York County District Attorney Kathryn Slattery this week touted the sentencing of a Maine man convicted of manslaughter in connection…
An investigation into a string of over 20 package thefts from a Westbrook senior citizen living facility has led to…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D), who during the COVID-19 pandemic implemented stringent prohibitions on public gatherings and stay-at-home directives, will…
The Hampden Police Department in Massachusetts busted a large-scale illegal marijuana growing operation on Tuesday. Hampden Police Department along with…
Lewiston was rocked by a series of violent incidents Tuesday evening, with police responding to two separate reports of gunfire…
While the mayor of South Portland recently recommended that elderly residents reverse mortgage their homes to handle a growing property…
A Lisbon man with multiple previous state convictions for possessing and distributing child pornography pleaded guilty this week to a…
The Mills administration has paid $120,000 to the Maine Trust for Local News (MTLN), the nonprofit that owns the Portland…
A Brownfield man was arrested on multiple drug and firearm charges following a raid conducted by the Maine Drug Enforcement…
A traffic stop in Lewiston shortly after midnight on Thursday led to the arrest of two men and the seizure…
Amid discussion regarding recent property tax hikes at a South Portland City Council meeting last month, Mayor Misha Pride suggested…
Six police departments across Maine have been awarded a total of just over $2 million in federal grants to support…
Mainers appear largely divided over the five ballot questions set to go before voters this November, according to a new…
Sanford city officials and members of the city council were in agreement during their Tuesday meeting on the need to…
During a town hall event Monday evening in Portland, Somali-American Maine State Rep. Deqa Dhalac (D-South Portland) claimed that immigrants’…
A motor vehicle crash on Main Street in Westbrook on Tuesday that left one car flipped on its side led…
A Portland man who in 2020 sold fentanyl-laced fake pills that killed a York County woman has been sentenced to…
The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Maine CDC) announced on Tuesday that a Maine resident has tested positive…
Maine’s Congressional delegation sent a joint letter to Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro urging cooperation on the cleanup effort at…
At a Portland town hall event Monday evening hosted by a collection of progressive nonprofit organizations, a lawyer from the…
Bangor Animal Control is continuing to investigate the mysterious disappearance of cats in Bangor’s Fairmount neighborhood, with officials saying multiple…
On Tuesday the Sanford City Council is expected to discuss a “public health crisis” caused by a large number of…
The City of Portland is now seeking applications to fill the vacancy at the top of the city’s Justice, Diversity,…
Just ahead of the anniversary of the tragic mass shootings in Lewiston on Oct. 25, 2023, U.S. Senator from Maine…
A Salvadoran national living illegally in the U.S. was arrested last week on Nantucket Island by federal immigration officers after…
The Bangor refugee resettlement office run by Catholic Charities Maine is planning to move 150 migrants into cities and towns…
The New York man charged in April with criminal threatening and aggravated sex trafficking for running his “massage parlor” as…
A joint operation by the Portland Police Department and Maine Drug Enforcement Agency (MDEA) led to the arrest of a…
A Bangor-based homelessness fundraising organization is propagating educational materials aimed at helping homeless individuals avoid arrest for a variety of…
On Tuesday the Portland City Council’s Health and Human Services and Public Safety Committee voted to advance a proposal from…
The owner of multiple massage parlors throughout Maine has been arrested in connection to a police investigation into alleged sex…
During a Tuesday meeting of the Portland City Council’s Health and Human Services and Public Safety Committee, City Councilor Kate…
A University of Maine employee who worked at the school for nearly four decades with a “completely unblemished” record was…
Maine Governor Janet Mills’ (D) Office of Policy Innovation and the Future (GOPIF) has granted $15,000 to a Portland-based consultant…
In the span of less than two weeks since Lewiston city officials and the Androscoggin County district attorney announced their plans to…
Settlement funds received by the City of Portland from a nationwide lawsuit against several opioid manufacturers and distributors could go…
A new program aimed at protecting elderly Mainers from scams by attaching informational brochures to prescription bags at Hannaford pharmacies…
The Mills Administration and the Maine Service Employees Association (MSEA-SEIU Local 1989) have reached an agreement Thursday to resolve a…
On Wednesday, the Portland City Council voted unanimously to pass a resolution calling upon City Manager Danielle West to divest…
A traffic stop early Tuesday morning in Lewiston led to the arrest of a felon out on bail after a…
U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced on Tuesday the arrest of an illegal alien charged with five counts of…
Last week, the Maine Department of Labor (MDOL) unveiled an updated set of regulations for the state’s new Paid Family…
A Dixfield man has been arrested after authorities found a 9-month-old baby girl suffering from an opioid overdose at a…
Long Creek Youth Development Center in South Portland, Maine’s only juvenile correctional facility, will be offering its high school-aged incarcerated…
At a special meeting this Wednesday, the Portland City Council will consider adopting a resolution to divest the city from…
Maine’s ongoing effort to resettle non-citizens will get a $5.4 million boost thanks to a Biden-Harris Administration grant that will…
A fugitive wanted in Maine for multiple firearms violations was apprehended by the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) in Auburn on…
Several Aroostock County Republicans hosted a gathering in Madawaska Wednesday night to discuss concerns over residents’ rising property taxes and…
The search of a residence in Palmyra by the Somerset County Sheriff’s Office on Thursday led to the seizure of…
Planned Parenthood of Northern New England (PPNNE), the largest provider of abortions in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont announced last…
Lewiston city officials, the chief of police and the Androscoggin County district attorney held a press conference on Thursday alongside…
Mainers statewide have been experiencing sticker shock when reviewing their property tax bills for the upcoming fiscal year, and Republican…
Tensions ran high at Portland City Hall on Monday evening as the city’s “justice, diversity, equity and inclusion” (JDEI) office…
Former House Democratic Leader Maureen Terry of Gorham scoffed at then-Rep. Billy Bob Faulkingham (R-Winter Harbor) for proposing a 2021…
A homeless man who in January was charged with assaulting people with a machete outside a Portland apartment complex was…
Firefighters in Lewiston battled a fire that broke out Wednesday afternoon at a College Street home that has been subject…
The Yarmouth Police Department was dealt an unexpected surprise on Monday when resident came to them seeking help disposing of…
Rockland Police announced on Tuesday that they have arrested a man suspected of burglarizing a museum and stealing tools from…
In response to a series of shooting incidents in recent weeks, the Lewiston Police Department, alongside city officials and the…
Mainers statewide have been experiencing sticker shock when reviewing their property tax bills for the upcoming fiscal year. From higher…
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. narrowly met the Maine Secretary of State’s deadline to withdraw his name from…
The director of Maine’s Bureau of General Services has resigned his position with the state less then two months after…
Following a surge in the amount of money spent under the municipal welfare program known as General Assistance, the Mills…
On Friday, the Maine Wire reported on a leaked ICE memo that listed hundreds of jails and police agencies around…