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The Rockland Police Department arrested a Hope man on Tuesday morning after a local business reportedly lost over $3,000 in…
An Anti-ICE protester deliberately interfered with the Brewer Police Department and blew an air horn at officers while they investigated…
LEWISTON, Maine — Safiya Khalid, a former Lewiston city councilor and former employee of Gateway Community Services, is facing sharp…
AUGUSTA, Maine — Republican gubernatorial candidate Bobby Charles is escalating his campaign’s law-and-order message with a new social media video…
PORTLAND, Maine — U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner, a Democrat, posted a video to social media warning that Immigration and…
PORTLAND, Maine — Maine state Rep. Deqa Dhalac urged Somali-Americans in Maine to pour “our time our money our skills”…
AUGUSTA, Maine — Gov. Janet Mills says she now supports a “full investigation” into Gateway Community Services after state audits…
A Camden woman who wrote a book-length tribute to her granddaughter – killed in the nation’s worst mass shooting -…
LEWISTON, Maine — What should have been a routine step to fill a vacant City Council seat turned into a…
AUGUSTA, Maine — Former Maine Senate Majority Leader Garrett Mason officially launched his campaign for governor on Wednesday, jumping into…
The Democrat-controlled House of Representatives attempted to ban Maine Wire reporter Jon Fetherston from entering the House chamber alongside other…
LEWISTON, Maine — The Lewiston City Council voted 6–1 to open an investigation into the residency qualifications of newly sworn-in…
BRUNSWICK, Maine — A 47-year-old Woolwich man was killed Friday night after his vehicle left the roadway on a Brunswick…
A Maine mom has now asked the United States Supreme Court to consider her case against a Damariscotta school in…
Gov. Janet Mills has spent months on the campaign trail boasting that she “stood up to” President Donald Trump, repeatedly…
It was a tragedy piled on a tragedy is how one Lincoln County resident described the December 27 homicide of…
As working families in Maine and Massachusetts get crushed by higher taxes, higher rents, and higher grocery bills, two governors…
The familiar Maine department store Renys has now broken even more hearts, going out of business a day earlier than…
The recent heist of 40,000 oysters from a farm in Falmouth is now believed to be the first of a…
Hundreds of participants are set to ring in the New Year by charging into the Atlantic Ocean in front of…
Federal agents visited a property in Lewiston on Tuesday that has been the source of repeated reports of fraud and…
A rollover crash in Buxton on Monday injured four people, including one person who was ejected from the vehicle, according…
Democratic state Rep. Deqa Dhalac (South Portland) is facing intensifying scrutiny as a widening state and federal investigation into alleged…
The mother of a 1-year-old twin found dead Sunday in Milford says she is “tired of people making assumptions” about…
It has been more than four months since Maine courts threw a shroud of secrecy over the proceedings in the…
Maine Republicans intensified their attack Tuesday over alleged MaineCare fraud tied to Gateway Community Services, warning that the case exposes…
Dozens of federal agents working with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security probed multiple locations in Lewiston on Tuesday that…
Police are searching for the driver of a silver SUV who struck a pedestrian in a marked crosswalk Sunday evening…
A Bangor organization raising money for the family of a twin girl who died prematurely is either well-intentioned or jumping…
Federal agents are now going door to door at businesses across Minnesota as part of a sweeping fraud crackdown, a…
Gov. Janet Mills (D), a candidate for the U.S. Senate, is trumpeting a $190 million federal health care award for…
U.S. Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) announced Monday that Maine will receive $190 million in first-year funding through the Rural Health…
Maine Republican legislative leaders will hold a press conference Tuesday to discuss allegations of MaineCare fraud involving Gateway Community Services,…
The Togus Veterans Administration Medical Center is preparing to begin accepting veterans transported by ambulance starting January 1, 2026, after…
Maine marked a year of notable losses in 2025, as prominent figures from politics, business, athletics, and the arts passed…
A condemned building tied to a federal drug bust is continuing to appear on paper as a business address and…
Maine residents will see higher taxes and fees across multiple everyday purchases starting January 1, 2026, as a slate of…
The dark horse in Maine’s Democrat U.S. Senate primary went full bore on Christmas for his last, big end-of-year money…
A Corinth man is facing a murder charge following a fatal shooting Saturday morning at a Main Street residence. According…
A Christmas Day house fire in Brunswick was quickly brought under control Thursday afternoon, with investigators pointing to an electrical…
Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows is again under fire as the League of Women Voters of Maine steps in…
As Maine continues to grapple with fallout from the Gateway Communities scandal and other nonprofit controversies, Gov. Janet Mills has…
Maine State Police are investigating the death of a one-year-old child who was found unresponsive Sunday morning at a residence…
“To the person who took my pocketbook backpack from Hannaford in Hampden would you be so kind to return it?”…
The Maine State Fire Marshal’s Office, working alongside the Portland Fire Department, is continuing its investigation into a Friday evening…
Let’s be clear: the collapse of Gateway Communities did not come out of nowhere.It happened on Janet Mills’ watch, after…
The Maine State Police have confirmed a murder-suicide following the discovery of two deceased adults at a Tremont residence earlier…
Maine politics in 2025 were defined by confrontation, controversy, and growing public distrust, as a high-stakes U.S. Senate race, mass…
Maine leads the nation in one important category, a national news network recently suggested: dynastic politics. Looking ahead to the…
More than two years after the deadliest mass shooting in Maine history, victims and their families say they are still…
A widening investigation by the U.S. House Oversight and Accountability Committee into alleged Medicaid fraud has placed new scrutiny on…
A new statewide economic analysis released this month paints a stark picture of prosperity split sharply between the greater Portland…
Former prosecutor and well-known TV crime fighter Nancy Grace is spotlighting a suspiciously-missing Maine girl. On her Christmas-eve show, “Crime…
Influenza cases are surging across Maine far earlier and harder than health officials typically see, with new data showing infections…
State fire investigators have arrested two men in connection with a house fire in Augusta that authorities say was intentionally…
Bipartisan legislation authored by U.S. Sen. Susan Collins (R) and Sen. Mark Warner (D) aimed at strengthening the security of…
Longtime midcoast Maine summer visitors Connie Chung and Maury Povich nearly got into it in a verbal battle over a…
Governor Janet Mills has ordered all State of Maine government offices closed Wednesday, December 24, as an overnight storm system…
Maine’s Department of Health and Human Services has suspended MaineCare payments to Gateway Community Services after a newly completed state…
Amid the Mills Administration’s unchecked spending, including thousands of pages and billions of dollars on no-bid contracts, it’s also expending…
A powerful congressional committee is demanding federal financial records tied to a Maine nonprofit that has come under scrutiny following…
The U.S. Border Patrol Houlton Sector arrested an Ecuadorian illegal immigrant in Rangeley early this month with a criminal history…
The Maine State Police are gathering information after local police discovered two dead adults in Tremont. [RELATED: Maine State Police…
A suspect allegedly trashed a Waterville police cruiser on Sunday after ramming it with a stolen vehicle while attempting to…
Over the past five years, the Maine Attorney General’s Office, led by Aaron Frey (D) has secured more than $260…
The City of Portland Public Art Committee has announced an open call for artists to submit qualifications for a new…
The CSX railroad company began clearing a Bangor homeless encampment on Monday morning that was located on their property near…
A new U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) crackdown on child exploitation came to the aid of 205 minor victims and…
When a politician resorts to using animals as props, you know there must be a problem. Embattled Maine Democrat Secretary…
The RSU 10 school district reversed course on its plans to include a co-ed locker room in its newly constructed…
The Westbrook Police Department arrested a fugitive from Virginia on Wednesday who was wanted for sexually abusing minors. [RELATED: Howland…
What began as a routine traffic stop Friday night quickly escalated into a serious drug arrest, with police seizing large…
A fire tore through the RSU 20 bus garage in Searsport Saturday afternoon, destroying the building and prompting an active…
Portland police are asking for the public’s help in an unsolved fatal incident that left a 33-year-old man dead following…
Lewiston police are investigating two residential fires that broke out Saturday night, one of which was initially treated as an…
The controversies surrounding Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows continue to pile up, raising serious questions about competence, accountability, and…
The Maine license plate that was allegedly attached to a rental car used in a triple homicide remains as mysterious…
Maine’s red-hot housing market showed fresh signs of volatility in November, as the statewide median home sale price dropped below…
Governor Janet Mills (D) has again opted not to sign a controversial piece of legislation, allowing new “ghost gun” regulations…
Nearly half of a Bangor-area school board abruptly resigned this week, leaving the district without a quorum and unable to…
A Pittsfield man already accused of sexually assaulting a dog – an attack that left the animal paralyzed and ultimately…
The five-day manhunt for a suspect in three campus murders ended with help of nothing more than a Reddit post,…
The Portland City Council voted unanimously on December 15 to broaden how the city spends its Opioid Settlement Funds, expanding…
A Howland sex offender convicted of passport fraud was sentenced to time served on Thursday during his sentencing hearing, after…
MaineHealth is not happy that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) took action to prevent hospitals that…
An investigation by The Robinson Report suggests migrant NGOs with no connection to the Lewiston shooting survivors were allowed to…
A once-quiet coastal town has been thrown into turmoil after local officials voted to allow an 8-year-old biological boy who…
The man who was sought in connection with a mass shooting at Brown University is also suspected to have killed…
The widening rift between Maine’s Democratic leadership and federal immigration authorities intensified Thursday after state Sen. Matt Harrington (R) posted…
The Windham Police Department arrested a 14-year-old student of Windham High School on Tuesday after he was allegedly discovered trying…
Across Maine, unanswered questions are no longer isolated mysteries but instead form a pattern, one marked by official silence, selective…
A federal judge has sentenced the former manager of Harvard Medical School’s morgue to eight years in prison for stealing…
The State Fire Marshal’s Office is investigating the cause of a commercial building fire that destroyed a garage and damaged…
The Bangor Police Department arrested a man on Wednesday after he allegedly fled at high speeds during an attempted traffic…
Two teenage alleged thieves were arrested on Thursday after they reportedly tried to escape detention by the Rockland Police. [RELATED:…
Some car owners in Maine may now benefit from having joined a 36-state coalition forcing Hyundai and Kia to provide free, hardware-based anti-theft…
Amid the millions of dollars of government waste buried in the thousands of Gov. Janet Mills’ (D-Maine) no-bid contracts obtained…
The Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office released the name of the Bonny Eagle School District bus driver who was behind the…
A sweeping $900.6 billion national defense bill backed by Susan Collins (R) has cleared Congress and is headed to the president’s…