Gov. Janet Mills (D) has signed a bill into law prohibiting legislative staff from lobbying for at least a year…
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Maine’s top police spokeswoman promised Thursday that an investigation into the death of a chocolate-lab police pup will not be…
Both the House and Senate have failed to adopt a measure that would have authorized cities and towns throughout Maine…
Two Biddeford men were found guilty on multiple federal charges, including robbery, drug trafficking, and illegal firearms possession, after a…
The controversy surrounding Rep. Laurel Libby’s (R-Auburn) censure continued on the House floor on Wednesday when House Speaker Ryan Fecteau…
The Maine Drug Enforcement Agency (MDEA) and Winthrop Police Department announced the arrest of two individuals on charges of aggravated…
What started out as a rebellion against their party, which they saw straying down the wrong path to ‘economic justice,’…
The stepfather of the child who died from a gunshot wound to the head in a Lewiston apartment in May…
A bird – voting with its feet – has won an election by acclamation in central Maine, effectively closing down…
A contentious bill, essentially turning Maine into a sanctuary state for illegal immigrants by severely limiting local cooperation with Immigration…
Three protesters, including the Concord City Democrats chair, were arrested on Tuesday after they refused to leave a New Hampshire…
Maine will remain in the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, an agreement among the states that could bring about sweeping…
Lawmakers in Augusta are battling in Augusta this week over the second part of the state’s proposed biennial budget. But…
If the failed Canadian summit sponsored by Maine’s Democrat governor is any indication, she may want a reset on her…
32-year-old Gratien Milandou-Wamba, a Cumberland County Corrections Officer, is currently being held in a New Hampshire prison after being detained…
A 26-year-old Farmington man is in custody following a domestic violence shooting that left a woman critically injured, authorities confirmed…
A transient man out of jail on 19 sets of bail conditions was arrested on Monday after allegedly assaulting a…
One man was arrested on Tuesday after Lewiston Police launched their investigation into a drive-by shooting that occurred outside of…
Travis Bessey, 30, of Sedgwick, was sentenced to 60 years in prison after he pleaded guilty last year to two…
Gov. Janet Mills (D) has signed a bill into law adding new penalties and enforcement measures to Maine’s new Paid…
Maine lawmakers appear to have put a pause on finalizing approval of a plan to restructure the state’s income tax…
Gov. Janet Mills (D) has signed a resolve into law directing the Maine Department of Labor (MDOL) to study the…
The Permanent Commission on the Status of Racial, Indigenous & Tribal Populations (PCRITP), Maine’s taxpayer-funded racial equity board, is looking…
A 27-year-old man from New York was cuffed and charged with a serious drug crime Tuesday after a high-stakes police…
High income Mainers may soon be paying a bit more in state taxes, thanks to revenue-hungry Democrats. After being held…
A powerful, pro-solar energy lobby group, the Coalition for Community Solar Access (CCSA), is using its national resources to urge…
Maine House Republicans teamed up with the Sportsmen’s Alliance of Maine (SAM) on Tuesday to propose a counter-measure to a…
House Speaker Ryan Fecteau (D-Biddeford) has slipped a tax change into the spending bill Democrats will pass before adjourning the…
Jordan Wood, a progressive Democratic candidate running to unseat Republican U.S. Senator Susan Collins, last week boasted that his campaign…
Lewiston Police are investigating a shooting that occurred over the weekend that left a man with non-life-threatening injuries from two…
Scarborough Police on Saturday assisted the Maine Warden Service and U.S. Border Patrol with a suspicious death investigation after stopping…
The Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office responded to a home at 6 Wogan Road in Raymond on Sunday following reports of…
Mainers served by Central Maine Power (CMP) can expect to see their electric bills go up next month by an…
The mark of a real politician is their ability to eat your lunch while still smiling as if you’re best…
If you’re going to get caught breaking a law that you claim to support, make sure the news breaks going…
After considering several iterations of the same bill, a measure requiring governmental entities that charge credit card fees to accept…
A 57-year-old Warren man is facing multiple charges following an alleged break-in and assault at a residence in Owls Head.…
The Maine House voted narrowly on Friday evening to pass a bill that will ban transgender-identifying males from girls’ sports…
Mainers will not be seeing the full price tags on their ballots when they go to the polls to vote…
A Saco man is facing multiple charges after leading police on a multi-town chase through York and Cumberland Counties. Maine…
The Portland Police Department arrested two people on Saturday after they allegedly assaulted police officers at the city’s “No Kings”…
The 132nd Maine Legislature’s special session, absent a statutory adjournment date, is set to conclude this week. Democratic leaders want…
Lawmakers have voted this week to restructure the Maine’s income tax brackets to impose a higher tax rate on the…
Maine lawmakers have rejected a Harpswell Democrat’s bill to levy an additional four percent tax on income earned over $1…
Maine Civic Action, an organization focused on educating Mainers on free markets and individual liberties, announced on Friday that its…
In a series of votes reflecting Maine’s divided stance on gun control, the Maine Senate this week rejected a bill…
Reps. Jared Golden (D-Maine) and Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) joined every other House Democrat on Thursday in opposing President Donald Trump’s…
by Zoe Scontras I attended Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) in Virginia from eighth grade through high school. I had…
Sen. Rick Bennett (R-Oxford) voted with Democrats on Thursday night and became the only Republican to oppose a bill that…
A person was hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries after being stabbed multiple times near Main Street in South Portland on Wednesday.…
A juvenile male faces murder charges following the discovery of two deceased men at a residence in Chelsea on Wednesday…
Maine legislators have defeated a bill that sought to reverse the changes made by a controversial abortion law signed into…
Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) joined Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Thursday in co-sponsoring his bill, the “End Prescription Drug Ads…
The upstart now surging ahead in polls to be top banana in New York City as the race to succeed…
A Dixmont woman was arrested on multiple felony counts on Monday after allegedly forcing her way into a home and…
The City of Portland resettled nearly 1,000 migrants within its territorial limits in 2024, including over 400 at a shelter…
Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) returned to one of his favorite legislative priorities during Tuesday’s meeting of the Senate Armed Services…
The Regional School Unit (RSU) 4 school board voted on Wednesday, near the end of the school year, to remove…
The Maine State Legislature this week killed the effort to give Mainers the opportunity to directly elect their constitutional officers,…
If the closings of birthing units at multiple Maine hospitals were not enough of a red flag signaling the downward…
Cape Elizabeth residents have narrowly approved an $86.5 million proposal to replace and repair the town’s aging middle and elementary…
Both chambers of Maine’s legislature passed a bill on Tuesday banning “doxing” minors that could be applied in future instances…
An juvenile suspect who reportedly attempted to enter the graduation for Oceanside High School in Rockland while intoxicated has been…
Two law enforcement sources, who spoke with the Maine Wire on the condition of anonymity as they were not authorized…
Maine lawmakers have voted to expand the use of ranked choice voting to gubernatorial elections, as well as races for…
A Puerto Rican man on Tuesday was sentenced to nearly five years in prison for trafficking $40,000 worth of fentanyl…
Nearly two-thirds — an estimated 61 percent — of the South Portland residents who participated in Tuesday’s election voted to…
Businessman Owen McCarthy, 37, threw his hat into the widening ring for Maine governor on Wednesday, announcing the launch of…
Tensions are escalating in the Maine House of Representatives as minority Republicans push back against majority Democrats’ threats of extended…
A federal judge on Monday postponed the habeas hearing for the Congolese man who has been held in U.S. Immigration…
Both chambers of the Maine Legislature reversed course on a controversial bill this week, ending an effort from Rep. Grayson…
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While a key committee in Augusta moved legislation to the floor that would make it more difficult for police in…
As rioters overrun the streets of Los Angeles, California, waving foreign flags while burning cars and assaulting federal officers, Gov.…
The Oxford County Sheriff’s Office announced on Tuesday that three suspects have been arrested in connection to a burglary at…
The Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office is conducting an ongoing investigation into a Monday shooting in Glenburn that left two injured.…
A bid by a land trust to broker a deal between a paper company and the federal government is on…
Maine School Administrative District (MSAD) 11 is poised to approve or deny an extremely controversial school-based medical clinic on Thursday,…
Former director of the Governor’s Office of Policy Innovation and the Future (GOPIF) and daughter of First District Congresswoman Chellie…
Jon Fetherston, the whistleblower who exposed the heinous crimes committed by illegal immigrants in Massachusetts’ “Healy Hotel” shelters, requested on…
A Rockland woman has been charged with her second Operating Under the Influence (OUI) offense after leading police on a…
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…