Maine Rep. Laurel Libby’s (R-Auburn) has filed an emergency petition to the United States Supreme Court, asking for their intervention…
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A Maine man accused of carrying out a violent carjacking in Massachusetts over the weekend has been apprehended in New…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) approved 40 financial orders on April 24 to adjust state budgets for the fiscal year…
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Don’t you wish there were cameras set up on Maine highways to catch you speeding, so you can get tickets…
A 67-year-old Wesley man and former school bus driver for the Machias Bay Area School System (AOS 96) has been…
A proposed constitutional amendment requiring at least two-thirds support to increase Mainers’ taxes is up for a public hearing early…
A bipartisan group of lawmakers have introduced a bill that aims to provide property tax relief to Maine homeowners, as…
A 15-year-old has been arrested in connection to a Tuesday shooting on Bartlett Street in Lewiston. Lewiston Police announced on…
The Maine state GOP lawmaker who got officially silenced by Democrats for defending girls’ high-school sports is now fighting her…
The owner of a plant store in Lewiston is facing aggravated drug trafficking charges after a search of the property…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) on Thursday signed a proclamation recognizing the Armenian genocide just months after appointed a now-resigned…
Thomas College, a private post-secondary institution in Waterville, Maine, is under scrutiny from the U.S. Department of Justice following a…
Cumberland County Sheriff’s detectives faced an unexpected, hours-long standoff with a career criminal after arriving at a Baldwin home to…
A Democrat-led bill aimed at softening the criminal possession thresholds for crack cocaine was advanced by the Maine Legislature’s Criminal…
Bangor Publishing Company — the company that owns both the Bangor Daily News (BDN) and a lesser-known marketing agency —…
Maine’s new Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML) Program was the center of sustained attention Wednesday afternoon in Augusta as…
The Maine native who made a cottage industry out of poking fun at downeasters is about to have the last…
Noting an uptick of crime in Maine committed by individuals out on bail for a previous offense, Sen. David Haggan…
Rep. Kristen Cloutier (D-Lewiston) withdrew a bill earlier this month that would have put taxpayer-funded tampons in public school boys’…
The Maine Legislature’s Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs (ECA) held public hearings for four Democrat-led bills on Tuesday aimed…
The Maine legislature will meet Thursday for the third session day in a row. Thursday’s calendar is light in both…
Lewiston Police are investigating a pair of shooting incidents that occurred on the same street over two separate days this…
Rep. Mike Soboleski (R-Phillips) penned a letter to U.S. Attorney General (AG) Pam Bondi, signed by nearly every Republican in…
U.S. Senator Angus King (I-Maine) is undeterred by the “No Kings” signs that have become prominent at recurring ‘Hands Off’…
President Donald Trump’s administration issued stop-work orders earlier this month on three University of Maine (UMaine) offshore wind development projects,…
Maine Rep. Laurel Libby (R-Auburn) has filed an emergency appeal of an April 19 ruling on her lawsuit against Maine…
The head of U.S. Border Patrol Houlton (USBP) Houlton Sector, Chief Patrol Agent (CPA) Juan Bernal, retired during a ceremony…
A homeless man is facing a dozen counts of aggravated reckless conduct with a firearm for allegedly firing a handgun…
A reclusive Swiss liberal billionaire whose cash helped buy Maine’s largest paper is now being targeted by several states over…
The Montreal Canadiens are in a playoff series and Wednesday is Franco-American Day in the legislature. It’s a good week…
An Ecuadorian national now faces federal charges for allegedly attempting to transport a group of illegal aliens through Vermont. On…
The attempt by an out-of-state dreamer to start a new version of Maine’s once-popular liberal weekly has apparently gone up…
The Maine Board of Overseers of the Bar has dismissed a professional misconduct complaint against Kennebec and Somerset County District…
There’s an old saying in Washington that goes “where you stand is where you sit,” which is to say too…
The federal jurist assigned to the federal lawsuit against Maine for refusing to bar transgender-identifying men from women’s sports, U.S.…
Duke superstar freshman and Newport native Cooper Flagg has confirmed that he is officially entering the NBA draft. Flagg, the…
The “non-profit” group running Maine’s largest newspaper is refusing to disclose the salary of the new CEO, amid executive-compensation issues…
A group of renegades from Maine’s upper reaches tired of liberal Gov. Janet Mills (D) are forming their own faction…
The Winthrop and Monmouth Police Departments both rescinded their applications for an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) partnership program on…
Why would a nationally-recognized Democrat pollster pen an article about her political research in the state of Maine? It could…
Portland Police have made an arrest following a Sunday shooting that left a 36-year-old woman with non-life threatening injuries. Police…
A 39-year-old Portland man was arrested early Sunday after a nearly two-hour standoff with police, during which he threatened officers…
A bipartisan group of Maine lawmakers have introduced a bill aiming to increase the value of the state’s Property Tax…
Democrat lawmakers are looking to expand the use of ranked choice voting (RCV) to all Maine elections, including for the…
New Hampshire U.S. District Judge Joseph N. Laplante ruled on Wednesday that the Trump administration must give 72 hours’ notice…
Democratic U.S. Rep. Jared Golden (ME-CD2) is courting Maine’s “No Labels” third-party as speculation builds over when he’ll announce what…
Maine’s House Democrats slipped a surprise vote onto Thursday’s legislative calendar to force through a proposed equal rights amendment to…
Democratic lawmakers in the Maine House of Representatives on Thursday voted down a bill that would have shifted the financial…
Rhode Island-based U.S. District Court Judge Melissa DuBose reportedly issued a ruling late on Friday denying Maine State Rep. Laurel…
The Auburn Police Department’s Proactive Community Enforcement (PACE) Unit this week executed a search warrant at a Seventh Street residence,…
If you wanted to build a name for yourself with Maine Democrats to lay the foundations to run against Republican…
President Donald Trump moved to reinvigorate the U.S. seafood industry and restore U.S. dominance on Thursday with an executive order…
A Rumford woman accused of elder abuse and financial exploitation for allegedly stealing more than $1,000 from an elderly relative…
When anti-Trump Maine businesses called a news conference recently to lobby against the administration’s proposed and imposed tariffs, the fawning…
Tarlan Ahmadov stepped down as director of the Maine Office of New Americans in early April — just three months…
Yet another bill aiming to allow Maine municipalities to adopt a local option sales tax has been introduced in Augusta…
It’s been a busy week for law enforcement in the Paris area. On Thursday, a Maine State Police tactical team…
The Maine Rail Group (MRG), a pro-railway non-profit lobbying organization, is presenting survey data claiming that 58 percent of Mainers…
Over the past year, Maine has seen a series of high-profile raids on Chinese-run massage parlors suspected of operating as…
Maine lawmakers on the Taxation Committee have unanimously rejected three proposals to increase the state’s homestead exemption, a program designed…
Rep. Cheryl Golek (D-Harpswell) withdrew a bill from consideration on Monday that would have mandated LGBTQ education curriculum in all…
by Jerry Leeman New Hampshire’s proposed ban on offshore wind development proves the state’s loyalty to its coastal communities and…
Rumford Police arrested both a fugitive who had been evading law enforcement for nearly a year and a domestic violence…
Maine Republicans are working to end some of the new restrictions placed on gun ownership in the state last year…
A report of shots fired in the Town of Paris on Wednesday led to a high-speed police chase involving multiple…
Yarmouth Police last week arrested a transgender-identifying man, Deserai Collins, 33, after he allegedly stole a van in Portland, led…
A Salvadoran national living illegally in United States and whom federal authorities say is a member of the violent Mara…
Mainers had the opportunity on Tuesday to testify on three Republican-led bills that aim to protect students from sexually explicit…
Maine’s Racial Equity Commission has emerged among the most frequent abusers of the sloppy no-bid contract system recently scrutinized in…
Two individuals out on bail were arrested in Rockland on Monday after police found fentanyl in their vehicle during a…
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It’s Easter weekend, but the only Easter egg to be found under the dome in Augusta is just another goose…
America’s youngest national security advisor, former Hillary Clinton and Amy Klobuchar aide Jake Sullivan, took center stage at Harvard University…
The Somerset County Sheriff’s Office arrested three people and seized $40,000 in drugs, including enough fentanyl to supply 185,000 lethal…
A Dominican illegal alien who was previously deported from the United States has been arrested in Massachusetts and charged with…
A Biddeford man will serve as long as a decade in federal prison for possessing hundreds of child sexual abuse…
U.S. Attorney General (AG) Pam Bondi, joined by women’s sports advocate Riley Gaines, Maine Rep. Laurel Libby (R-Auburn), Secretary of…
Maine firearm dealers could be forced to hand out “public health brochures” with their firearms thanks to a bill from…
Lawmakers on the Taxation Committee have unanimously rejected a Democrat-led bill that would have revitalized a now-defunct property tax stabilization…
When the head-turning girlfriend of former New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick takes the stage in this year’s Miss…
Maine School Administrative District (MSAD) 70’s school board voted unanimously on Monday night to defy the Maine Principals’ Association (MPA)…
Just two weeks after Waldo County Hospital closed its maternity and birthing unit citing declining birth rates, on Monday Rep.…
A fugitive investigation by the U.S. Marshal’s Service (USMS) on Friday resulted in the arrests of three people in Biddeford…
Mainers weighed in Monday morning on a proposed amendment to Maine’s Constitution that would prohibit the governor from calling the…
A Chinese national who in 2023 was arrested for sexual assault at a massage parlor he owned in Ellsworth is…
The Buxton man accused of raping a 15-year-old female student in the unisex bathroom of Bonny Eagle High School in…
Maine’s Veterans and Legal Affairs Committee held a public hearing Monday morning for a proposal concerning Maine’s unique method of…
It’s Tax Day. Taxation is theft. With that grim reminder out of the way, let’s get down to the scouting…
The distribution of Maine’s four presidential electoral votes was up for grabs in Augusta Monday morning, as lawmakers on the…
A new “Maine” paper claiming the name of an oldie but a goodie has announced its creation – as a…
Worcester, Massachusetts, is now mandating a new regimen of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) training for firefighters, just months after…
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) must resume federal education funding for Maine, according to a Friday ruling from…
Maine State Rep. Michelle Meyer (D-Eliot) introduced legislation in February, and carried over into the current emergency session last month,…
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A Republican lawmaker is looking to legally abolish the controversial practice of introducing placeholder legislation, known as a “concept draft,”…
The Portland City Council’s Health and Human Services Committee met on Thursday to discuss various options related to how the…
A public hearing has now been set for a bill seeking to revitalize a now-defunct property tax stabilization program for…
When Joe Biden’s would-be successor’s campaign was tanking, the now-retiree came up with a plan he thought would help rescue…
As the deadline set in a letter of impasse the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights had sent…