A leading Maine rabbi is calling a foul on the state’s junior senator for dropping Israeli support based on false…
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When Washington, DC super-lawyer Marc Elias gleefully “threaded” a story about Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows telling the U.S.…
A Texas-born former FBI agent has joined the crowd of Democrats seeking to become Maine’s next chief executive officer. Jason…
Many Mainers will likely see the cost of their health insurance increase by double-digits next year in what regulators are…
The chief of Maine’s Capitol Police was arrested Friday after allegedly assaulting a local police officer outside a Hallowell bar,…
Mainers are facing the highest year-over-year energy rate increase in the nation, surging by over a third, according to a…
As the 2025 Fiscal Year came to a close last month, Maine’s General Fund turned out to have a $152.2…
A growing leftist ideology in the Episcopal church may be the reason Russian clergymen – former Episcopalians – are expanding…
The University of Maine System spent nearly $2 million on out-of-state trips, according to recently released 2025 first quarter data,…
The Portland Police Department is searching for a masked bank robber in connection with an apparently successful robbery at a…
Maine’s largest newspaper’s experiment in covering its outlier towns from Portland was apparently doomed from the start. Duh. The Portland…
The Rockland police department’s patrols for drivers operating under the influence (OUI) led to a slew of drug arrests over…
Maine Capitol Police Chief Matthew M. Clancy, 62, of Sidney, was taken to the ground, cuffed and stuffed after biting…
The group behind last fall’s ballot initiative placing new limits on Super PAC contributions has appealed a federal judge’s ruling…
Maine’s version of government-run, taxpayer-financed state media, popularly dubbed “public broadcasting,” will likely have to find a new source of…
Fresh on the heels of blocking The Maine Wire from one of his “public” events, Democrat Senate hopeful Jordan Wood…
Anyone who thinks Augusta is woefully out-of-shape with ballooning state budgets and piddling performance on everything from the quality of…
Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey has joined a coalition of twenty-one Democrat-led states in suing the Trump Administration over a…
Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) signed on to co-sponsor a Democrat-led bill late last month that would make it easier for…
A supermarket sale flyer denying Maine customers a discount on a gallon of milk has lit a fire under free-market…
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) announced a contract awarded to Bath Iron Works on Thursday for the construction of a new…
Maine’s legal cannabis programs prohibit individuals with “disqualifying drug offenses” from becoming licensed business operators in either the adult-use recreational…
Not a good idea to stop on the main road into Acadia or Baxter to bear-watch. No, not because the…
A world-renowned 20th-century sculptor who put Rockland, Maine on the map loved scrounging in trash bins for scrap wood. That’s…
The Brewer Police Department arrested two people in a public park on Tuesday after they were allegedly discovered with drugs…
The federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced earlier this week that it intends to rescind the 2009 declaration that has…
The Coast Guard is calling for increased mast inspections of commercial wooden sailing ships in the wake of a fatal…
A South Paris Man died on Saturday during a private fireworks show in Roxbury when he was struck by a…
A former longtime top editor of Maine’s largest legacy newspaper is blasting its latest iteration as an “embarrassment.” Cliff Schechtman,…
The quality of Maine’s early education system was found to be one of the worst in the nation despite a…
Maine has signed onto a lawsuit against the Trump Administration challenging its new prohibitions on providing access to certain social…
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Update: After the publication of this article, the owner of Blaze Bangor, Matthew Haskell, spoke with The Maine Wire, informing…
A routine traffic stop on Tuesday in Rockland led to two arrests following a brief struggle with officers after they…
Eric Small is not a typical politician. When he decided to run for Congress earlier this week, there was no…
York County Sheriff’s Deputies arrested a Lyman man in Biddeford on Tuesday after responding to reports of a vehicle being…
Jordan Wood, a longtime Washington, D.C. staffer running as a Democrat to unseat Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) displayed the true…
Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows has refused a request from the Trump Administration to turn over the state’s voter…
The First Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday to uphold the lower court’s dismissal of a Maine mom’s lawsuit against…
A federal appeals court on Monday affirmed the dismissal of a lawsuit brought by a Maine mother who accused public…
U.S. Senator Angus King (I-Maine) wants the U.S. government to suspend its assistance to Israel, America’s key ally in the…
The Portland Police Department assisted with an FBI operation in Portland on Tuesday morning that appeared to involve numerous armed…
Two Massachusetts women have died from severe burns after their camper exploded on Saturday at Old Orchard Beach’s Powder Horn…
By Kendall Tietz Maine was one of the first states to publicly denounce President Trump’s executive actions on gender policy.…
A Republican state legislator who bravely sponsored bills to keep boys out of women’s sports and bathrooms quickly found out…
Never try to outdo the animal-rights clique when it comes to creating a media spectacle. To wit, People for Ethical…
Maine’s Drug Enforcement Agency (MDEA) busted five alleged drug traffickers in a Searsport raid on Friday that exposed New-York based…
An attempted firearms purchase led to the arrest of a Jamaican citizen who the town of Old Orchard Beach had…
Maine Sen. Susan Collins (R) announced Friday that the Trump Administration has agreed to release the rest of Maine’s public…
A collective of water-sports enthusiasts and fishermen will hold two ceremonies to honor the memory of a Maine paddleboarder killed…
The Portland Police Department has yet to release the name of a suspect arrested on Saturday for an alleged shooting…
Wells’ aging liberals have banded together in recent months to stage weekly protests against the police department’s paused collaboration agreement…
A Brazilian illegal immigrant caught in Maine in May following a deportation four years ago will now face no additional…
A Phillips community activist played ‘Karen’ earlier this month and hectored Franklin County State Representative Michael Soboleski (R-Phillips) out of…
A South Portland Man faces an array of charges after he allegedly stabbed someone numerous time on Sunday night following…
The planet-wide intrigue stemming from a high-brow alleged affair between two top-level NY execs has now moved to Kennebunk, Maine.…
Maine Rep. Deqa Dhalac (D-South Portland), a Somali immigrant and Maine politician, has garnered national attention in recent days after…
Excerpt from congressional report detailing Hunter Biden’s relationship with Chinese-communist linked corporations and agents. Photo of a business card Mervyn…
Whomever dropped an invasive fish into a northern Maine lake is going to be on the hook, big time, if…
A York police officer arrested a New Hampshire man in NH on Wednesday after he allegedly sparked a police chase…
Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) demanded the release of the Epstein files on Thursday as controversy mounts over President Donald Trump’s…
An “animal-rights” lobby has gone to court to try to stop Rockland’s annual “egregiously cruel method of steaming thousands of…
The Maine Ethics Commission decided Wednesday that it would not be taking action against the Cape Elizabeth School Department for…
A state representative from Hancock County responded on Wednesday to a new national report from CNBC that ranked Maine as…
A half dozen of Maine’s left-leaning non-profits have banded together to solicit donations for their Maine Solidarity Fund that will…
Despite a relative flatlining of year-on-year real estate prices nationwide, Maine home sales are up from where they were last…
A former educational technician at the Congin Elementary School in Westbrook turned himself in on Thursday after a warrant was…
A Lewiston man previously convicted of gross sexual assault pleaded guilty in the U.S. District Court in Portland on Tuesday…
A Facebook post promoting the removal of Maine’s Democrat governor just got a nice free ad from the Mills-friendly Portland…
After a long wait, an Aroostook County ambulance company now can really haul – big time. Southern Aroostook Emergency Medical…
Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey has once again joined a coalition of states, this time in suing the federal Department…
Mainers need to make over $45,000 annually on average to afford a one-bedroom apartment in the state, and they need…
Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) is outraged that CBS has decided to cancel its failing “Late Show” hosted by leftist Stephen…
Penobscot County Sheriff’s Deputies conducted a raid on a Passadumkeag residence on Tuesday, leading to the arrest of three career…
An alleged drunk driver from Gorham reportedly attempted to flee a crash site on Tuesday after striking a Lake Region…
The U.S. Marshal Service (USMS) apprehended a violent Massachusetts fugitive hiding out in Bangor from a slew of felony charges…
A man who gruesomely dismembered his father in Gardiner more than a decade ago is now enjoying the fruits of…
A New York man will spend 45 months in prison following his role in a conspiracy to traffic firearms from…
Bad-Boy Black Sabbath phenom Ozzy Osbourne, who died Tuesday at age 76, once got his *** thrown out of Portland,…
Gov. Janet Mills (D) has allowed a bill establishing net neutrality to become law in Maine without her signature. Sponsored…
A non-citizen living in New Hampshire was arrested on Tuesday and faces charges for allegedly illegally voting in three elections…
A large-scale drug bust in Northern New Hampshire last week including state and federal authorities resulted in 17 arrests and…
The Rockland Police Department arrested a man for an alleged vandalism spree on Monday, who was free to commit his…
The South Portland Police Department apprehended a 14-year-old boy on Friday night after he escaped from the Long Creek Youth…
Democrat Gov. Janet Mills naively picked a berry real fight hopping into a farmer’s field to promote blueberry weekend. When…
A Maine man is in a New Hampshire jail after sparking a high-speed chase on Wednesday, fleeing police after an…
Gov. Janet Mills (D) signed a bill into law earlier this month that expanded eligibility for free hospital care, raising…
A Maine memorial for fishermen who die at sea is under fire from a downeast family who lost two relatives…
Maine received high-marks on the 2025 national score-card from the Sexuality Information and Education Council (SEICUS) non-profit, that ranks states based…
A tough Sanford woman is celebrating a naked loss in a fourth try at $100,000 on Discovery Channel’s top-rated survivor…
A small group of Maine protestors set sail in kayaks and other small craft on Saturday, braving the roughly one…
The Dover-Foxcroft Police Department issued an urgent shelter-in-place order on Friday evening for the vicinity of W. Main St., warning…
A likely illegal immigrant faces child abduction charges after he was arrested in Lewiston for allegedly grabbing a three-year-old child…
The Trump Administration is now expected to release $1.3 billion worth of federal funds for before- and after-school programming, multiple…
U.S. Marshals arrested wanted Dominican Trinitarios gang-member Yonaidry Lascano Rosario, 24, on Thursday night in Bethel with assistance from the…
Maine’s unemployment rate has remained steady in recent months, coming in at 3.3 percent in June. The seasonal increase in…
Fifty years ago the body of a 19-year-old woman was dumped in a culvert on Sherman Lake in Newcastle. Florence…
A shocking new national survey of states’ public utilities shows Maine ranks the worst of all 50, earning it an…
Republican Maine Sen. Susan Collins’ approval rating has fallen amid a tense summer session where she repeatedly broke away from her party and President Donald Trump on multiple crucial votes. The results were released by Morning Consult as a part of its quarterly poll of senators’ approval ratings, and it shows the favorability of the longtime Maine
Days after the arrest and preliminary charging of a suspect in the murder of Sunshine “Sunny” Stewart, a new question…