The next and perhaps final phase of the budget battle is starting to gear up in Augusta. This week the…
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Maine Democrats have proposed levying an additional four percent tax on income earned over $1 million to fund public education.…
A Portland man accused of throwing a rock through the window of a motor vehicle was arrested on Sunday and…
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Update: After the publication of this article, Rep. Reagan Paul (R-Winterport) contacted The Maine Wire saying that she has reconsidered…
The public will now get a chance to weigh in on whether to give Maine voters the opportunity to approve…
Democrat lawmakers in Augusta have introduced a bill that aims to prohibit “housing discrimination” based on a person’s source of…
A 13-year-old Cassidy Carlisle got an unwelcome shock when she encountered a biological male in the girls’ locker room at…
Lewiston’s Rep. Mana Abdi (D) has introduced a bill to allow state workers to get the Muslim holidays Eid al-Fitr…
Mainers gathered in Augusta Wednesday for a public hearing on two bills that look to allow cities and towns throughout…
A political science professor at the University of Maine (UMaine) sent out a recruitment flyer for the UMaine Orono Students…
A service provider for the state’s Office of MaineCare Services left several expletive-ridden voicemails for a Republican state senator early…
Terri Cooper, the superintendent of the RSU 21 district that includes the town of Kennebunk, ended her controversial five years…
Legislative Democrats failed this week to secure a $120 million supplemental spending bill — thanks largely to Republicans in the…
Maine State Police are investigating the death of a Massachusetts man who was found deceased from a gunshot wound at…
Northern Light Inland Hospital and its associated Waterville clinics are slated to be shut down and will halt patient care…
Dr. Nirav Shah, former head of the Maine Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Maine CDC), will be joining the…
Protecting Sears Island from exploitative development has been a mission of its Waldo County defenders for decades, and the latest…
Maine’s Committee on Veterans and Legal Affairs voted in favor of a bill legalizing home alcohol distilling with a positive,…
The City of Portland will be saddled with providing services at the city’s 179-bed shelter for single asylum-seeking migrants after…
Funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for Maine universities was restored Wednesday following a brief pause by the…
The Oxford County Sheriff’s Office announced on Wednesday that following a multi-day search they have arrested a suspect accused of…
Rep. Jared Golden (ME-CD2) explained why he was the only Democrat in the House to vote on Tuesday in favor…
Democrat lawmakers in Maine are looking to impose an additional four percent tax on capital gains earned by residents over…
As a result of every federal judge in Maine recusing themselves from a Republican State Representative’s case against the Democratic…
The Maine State Police and Attorney General’s Office on Wednesday announced that they have concluded the investigation into the deaths…
Cumberland Police on Wednesday announced the arrest of a man accused of orchestrating a sophisticated online fraud scheme targeting a…
Maine lawmakers are now looking to have the final say over what civil lawsuits are brought by the state’s Attorney…
Maine Wire Editor-in-Chief Steve Robinson contributed to this report. UPDATE: The Maine Wire has learned the likely explanation for the…
The Lewiston Police Department on Tuesday issued an update on their investigation into a shooting that occurred outside of a…
Rep. William Tuell (R-East Machias) introduced a disarmingly simple bill to Maine’s Legislature last month consisting of only one sentence.…
The Maine House and Senate spent the second half of Tuesday passing different versions of the state’s supplemental budget between…
An amendment to Governor Janet Mills’ $120 million supplemental budget request passed the Senate on Tuesday afternoon that would place…
Democrat lawmakers are looking to add new penalties and enforcement measures to Maine’s Paid Family and Medical Leave Program that…
Taking your car in every year for its inspection sticker is a familiar ordeal to all Maine drivers, but some…
Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey celebrated a settlement with Sanofi-Aventis U.S. LLC that will cap Mainers’ insulin costs at $35…
Maine State Senator and former House Speaker Rachel Talbot Ross (D-Cumberland) has introduced a bill that would extend taxpayer-funded prescription…
Maine’s Health and Human Services (HHS) Committee voted Wednesday to recommend that millions in proposed cuts to certain child care…
Rep. Laurel Libby (R-Auburn) filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against Maine House Speaker Ryan Fecteau in the U.S. District Court…
Maine’s Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety held a public hearing on Monday for Rep. James White’s (R-Guilford) bill…
The Maine American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has issued a statement denouncing the use of a New Hampshire federal prison…
Rockland Police on Monday announced the arrest of an 18-year-old accused of stealing $40,000 from a vehicle in February while…
Democratic lawmakers have proposed replacing Maine’s statewide minimum wage with a regionally based structure tied to an assessment of the…
The Maine House and Senate will convene for legislative session at 10 am on Tuesday, as uncertainty over the supplemental…
Sen. Joe Baldacci (D-Penobscot) defended the highly controversial and nationally-publicized decision to censure Rep. Laurel Libby (R-Auburn) for posting a…
A new bill from Rep. James White (R-Guilford) would allow adults over the age of 21 who possess a concealed…
A group of Maine Democratic lawmakers have introduced a bill that would allow municipalities to adopt a local option sales…
An illegal alien who was arrested late last year and found to be a member of the Venezuelan transnational criminal…
A shooting outside of a mosque in Lewiston on Friday night interrupted a Ramadan service and left a 19-year-old injured.…
Already reeling from recent bad news in rankings on national scales when it comes to educational performance and overall tax…
Criminal defendants in Maine will now be released from jail if a lawyer is not provided within 14 days, and…
U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have revealed new details about the Chinese national now facing deportation after being charged…
Eleven children were hospitalized on Thursday after becoming mysteriously ill at the Wentworth School, an elementary school in Scarborough, with…
Two people out on bail were arrested in Rockland on Thursday after police found cocaine and other narcotics in their…
Some Maine students are granted the ability to attend a public school outside of their home district through what is…
Nine Republican lawmakers are looking to completely phase out Maine’s income tax by 2030 and reduce the state budget proportionally,…
A Maine high school track and cross country coach published an op-ed Thursday in the Bangor Daily News defending the…
A Brunswick-based LGBTQ advocacy nonprofit will be hosting a “queer wildlife day” later this month, during which participants will learn…
Matthew Lillibridge, a Maine School Administrative District (MSAD) 11 board member currently running for re-election, appeared to threaten parental rights…
Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey, alongside a coalition of 21 other Democratic state attorneys general, on Wednesday were able to…
Ever since President Donald Trump went full Don Rickles on Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) at the White House, Maine…
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)’s Office of Civil Rights has found Maine to be in violation…
A group of Republican lawmakers have introduced a bill aims to eliminate the eight percent sales tax on prepared food,…
Child care workers gathered at the State House Tuesday morning to protest tens of million dollars worth of cuts that…
An illegal alien from Ecuador was arrested in Maine on Sunday for operating under the influence (OUI), and is now…
Maine is currently facing a significant housing crisis, and researchers at a state-based think tank have written a report illustrating…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills emerged from seclusion on Monday to address corporate media reporters for the first time since she…
The Maine Trust for Local News (METLN), the nonprofit organization that owns the Portland Press Herald, Lewiston Sun Journal and…
Two suspects in a fraudulent check cashing scheme that targeted a bank in Waterboro and other banks in the area…
Following a month-long investigation into suspected drug trafficking, the Somerset County Sheriff’s Office executed a search warrant at a Norridgewock…
Maine lawmakers are again considering proposals to allow the State Police to require the use of an electronic inspection program…
Tuesday’s legislative session is shaping up to be a lively one. Representative Reagan Paul (R-Winterport) has snuck in a Joint…
The U.S. Department of Education has launched an online “End DEI” portal for parents, teachers and other community members to…
Maine voters could soon have the opportunity to approve or reject pay raises for elected officials in the state, including…
A Windham man with a suspended driver’s license was arrested last week for operating under the influence (OUI) and multiple…
In an interview published online last week, recently elected Portland City Councilor for District 2, Wes Pelletier, a longtime member…
A Republican-led bill introduced on Wednesday would allow Maine municipalities to place limitations on the state’s ability to resettle migrants…
With a turnout estimated at over 500 Mainers, demonstrators gathered outside the State House in Augusta on Saturday to show…
House Speaker Ryan Fecteau (D-Biddeford) probably thought the Tuesday night censure vote against Rep. Laurel Libby (R-Auburn) would become a…
Maine Democratic lawmakers have introduced a bill that would allow “clean elections” candidates running for state office to use taxpayer-funding…
Brunswick Police on Thursday announced the arrest of three individuals accused of operating an organized retail theft scheme targeting stores…
Mainers overwhelmed the Legislative Committee on Energy, Utilities, and Technology (EUT) on Thursday, many waiting in the corridor to the…
Over the course of Maine Gov. Janet Mills’ six years in office, her administration has handed out millions of taxpayer…
Maine House Speaker Ryan Fecteau (D-Biddeford) deleted his X account in the wake of intense backlash following his decision to…
A Democrat-led bill restructuring Maine’s income tax brackets is officially set to go before the Legislature’s Taxation Committee for a…
A group of Republican lawmakers are looking to eliminate Maine’s income tax and require the state to develop zero-based budgets…
A group of seven Republican legislators, headed by Rep. Richard Campbell (R-Orrington), is proposing a state constitutional amendment to change…
A group of Democrat lawmakers have proposed a plan to stabilize property taxes for Maine seniors that would be funded…
One Bangor Democrat has now proposed exempting new cars from Maine’s annual vehicle safety inspections, making the legislative push to…
Supplemental appropriations took center stage Tuesday afternoon as lawmakers debated what has become a highly controversial piece of legislation. By…
Former Bangor Mayor, Democrat state senator and state representative Sean Faircloth won Maine House District 24 on Tuesday, holding the…
Rep. Richard Campbell (R-Orrington) introduced a bill to bar males from women’s sports at Maine schools last summer and again…
A new petition on Change.org to recall Gov. Janet Mills (D-Maine) from office has already garnered over 13,000 signatures just…
The Maine Center for Disease Control & Prevention (Maine CDC) will be spending an additional $500,000 to extend its marketing…
Gov. Janet Mills’ approval rating has hit an all-time low, according to the Pine Tree State Poll fielded just before…
After a vacation week that ended with Maine at the middle of a national political firestorm, lawmakers will return to…
The owner of a massage parlor in Rockland who last week was arrested and charged with sex trafficking is now…
A former York County Jail corrections cadet was among a group of suspected illegal aliens taken into federal custody by…
Gov. Janet Mills’ (D-Maine) Chief of Staff, Jeremy Kennedy, swore at White House Director of Intergovernmental Affairs Alex Meyers on…
A man has died after being struck by a vehicle outside of Portland’s Homeless Services Center, Portland Police announced on…