Maine House Republicans have called upon Democratic lawmakers to produce their proposed budget documents, including the details of their plan…
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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…
Governor Janet Mills (D-Maine) is signaling her disapproval of the Trump Administration’s rocky relationship with Canada by using taxpayer funds…
A South Portland Police crisis negotiator on Wednesday was successfully able to safely de-escalate a situation involving a 20-year-old South…
One woman is dead and two others injured after a vehicle crashed into a home on Webster Street in Lewiston…
Maine Democratic lawmakers are seeking to prevent the state’s Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) from reducing its reimbursement…
A Chinese national who owns a Chinese food restaurant in Lewiston was taken into custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs…
The Portland Police Department arrested 20 pro-Palestine protesters on Wednesday afternoon after they allegedly refused to stop blocking a major…
Bowdoin College is now facing a civil rights complaint from the Equal Protection Project (EPP) filed on Wednesday, after it…
Legislators have unanimously rejected a proposal to make free community college a permanent fixture in Maine, bringing an end to…
The Maine House passed a bill on Tuesday that will allow providers of chemical abortion pills, such as mifepristone, to…
A coalition of groups that received lucrative no-bid contracts from the Mills Administration from 2022 to 2024 — funded by…
A new poll from the Congressional Leadership Fund, first released to Notus on Wednesday, gives former Maine Republican Gov. Paul…
U.S. Senator from Vermont, two-time presidential candidate and self-described democratic socialist Bernie Sanders has endorsed former Maine Senate President Troy…
A bill sponsored by Senate President Mattie Daughtry (D-Cumberland) aiming to provide millions of dollars in continuing support for the…
A decision by the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) on Tuesday in favor of state Rep. Laurel Libby (R-Auburn) that restored…
Realtor and developer David Jones announced his candidacy for Maine governor on Tuesday, joining a field that currently includes former…
The York Police Department on Tuesday announced that officers successfully apprehended two murder suspects from Texas in York. York Police…
Rep. Reagan Paul (R-Winterport) presented a bill at a public hearing on Monday in the Judiciary Committee, which would define…
House Majority Leader Matt Moonen (D-Portland) has introduced a bill that would amend the laws governing how Maine’s legislators are…
The bill that would have established “hope accounts” for Maine students who either are home-schooled or attend a private school…
A public hearing on two bills aimed at hindering Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations in Maine drew dozens of…
The Maine House of Representatives has voted to withdraw from the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, an agreement into which…
Lawmakers in Augusta have unanimously rejected the Democrat-led effort to eliminate a clause in the state’s new Paid Family and…
Maine Rep. Laurel Libby’s (R-Auburn) right to vote in the Maine House of Representatives has been temporarily reinstated by the…
U.S. Border Patrol agents from Maine’s Houlton Sector have arrested another pair of Ecuadorian illegal immigrants during a vehicle stop,…
Mainers on social media are voicing their acute disapproval of the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (IFW) in response…
An effort to draft the leadership of the Wabanaki Alliance into taking a position on the war in Gaza is…
Second District Congressman Jared Golden (D-ME) put to rest speculation about his 2026 plans on Tuesday morning when he declared…
A former colleague of the now-resigned Maine Office of New Americans director Tarlan Ahmadov has alleged that while working together…
Sen. Matt Harrington (R-York) presented a bill on Thursday that would prevent Maine from using financial institutions’ merchant category codes…
Cape Elizabeth residents will return to the polls on June 10 to again weigh in on a multi-million dollar proposal…
The Maine House and Senate will be holding a session day on Tuesday and both legislative calendars are very long.…
Former Maine Assistant Attorney General James M. Cameron, 62, was released from a Colorado prison on Friday, where he had…
Lawmakers have rejected two bills introduced with the intention of expanding employment opportunities for young Mainers. While LD 618 would…
Gateway Community Services, the migrant-run social services agency now facing multiple whistleblower allegations of artificially inflating Medicaid billing, received a grant…
A Portland woman was arrested after a federal investigation on Friday for allegedly making threatening phone calls to a U.S.…
The Maine State Legislature’s Judiciary Committee held a public hearing on Friday for a “common sense and natural order” bill…
The Maine State Police are investigating the death of a four-year-old child who was found in a Lewiston apartment with…
Rep. Josh Morris (R-Turner) appeared on the Ray Richardson radio show on Monday morning and sharply criticized former Democratic Senate…
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Former Maine Senate president Troy Jackson announced Monday morning that he is officially running for governor and plans to launch…
Two 18-year-olds have been arrested on arson charges, the Maine State Fire Marshal announced on Thursday, and are suspected of…
Portland Police officers arrested a homeless man on Thursday night after they received a report of a stabbing incident. [RELATED:…
The South Portland Police Department arrested a potentially dangerous burglary suspect on Tuesday, following a case of mistaken identity that…
State Sen. Jim Libby (R-Cumberland) has registered to run in the Republican Party primary for the 2026 gubernatorial election, according…
Almost everyone agrees doing business in Maine is much harder than it needs to be. According to the Maine Jobs…
(From L-R David Jones, Robert Wessels, Garrett Mason, Owen McCarthy, Bobby Charles and moderator Ray Richardson)
A new poll reveals a bipartisan majority of Maine voters oppose several progressive education policies supported by Gov. Janet Mills’…
The Maine Drug Enforcement Agency (MDEA) arrested Abdirahman A. Abdullahi, 26, of Portland, during a drug bust on Wednesday, seizing…
The Legislature’s Veterans and Legal Affairs (VLA) Committee heard a number of regulatory proposals for the cannabis industry on May…
There wasn’t a dry eye in the Blaine House on Thursday when Maine Governor Janet Mills (D) broke the bittersweet…
The Portland Police Department executed a sting operation on Thursday that led to the arrest of the homeless lifetime sex…
Seven Republicans in the Maine Senate voted with Democrats on Wednesday against a GOP-led bill that would have stopped the…
Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) arrests in the Houlton border sector, encompassing all of Maine’s border with Canada, reached a…
Following an investigation into a shots fired incident on Grant Street in Portland on Sunday night, city police made an…
Get-Off-My-Lawn party poopers trying to defuse July 4th fireworks locally and statewide are winning few converts along Maine’s midcoast. First…
Lawmakers have unanimously shot down two proposed amendments to Maine’s constitution that would have lowered the voting age to 16…
Maine lawmakers are poised to reject along nearly partisan lines a proposal to reinstate the municipal property tax levy limits…