Rep. Laurel Libby (R-Auburn) filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against Maine House Speaker Ryan Fecteau in the U.S. District Court…
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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…
The appearance of Maine’s top lobstering official at New England’s largest fishing convention has gone largely unnoticed for 49 years…
Given the high-level fireworks between Maine Governor Janet Mills (D) and U.S. President Donald Trump over the state’s refusal to…
As many as a half dozen bills so far are on the table in Augusta during this legislative session aimed…
The Maine Legislature returns to work on Monday after a week of vacation, and it is expected to have a…
The president of the Armenian Cultural Association of Maine on Thursday sent a letter to Gov. Janet Mills calling for…
Republican lawmakers in Augusta have introduced a bill that would reverse the changes made by a controversial abortion law signed…
The owner of a Rockland massage parlor police believe to be tied to organized crime in New York was arrested…
President Donald Trump and Maine Governor Janet Mills traded legal ultimatums on Friday afternoon in a dispute arising from the…
The Maine Secretary of State’s Office pressured Meta, the parent company of Facebook, to remove posts that they flagged as…
The Franklin County Sheriff’s Office arrested two Massachusetts men on Wednesday after they allegedly scammed a Rangeley Plantation woman out…
As Armenian-Americans in Maine voice their outrage with past anti-Armenian advocacy by Gov. Janet Mills’ (D) newly appointed Director of…
Newly obtained emails show a wave of heated, anti-Christian opposition from community members and University of Maine staff after UMaine…
Joanne O’Brien, a far-left Maine MSAD 11 School Board member overseeing public education in Gardiner, has garnered nationwide attention in…
Several members of Maine’s Armenian community are calling for the resignation of the director of the Maine Office of New…
When Heather Sanborn served in the Maine State Legislature not so long ago, she voted in support of granting credits…
A question on whether Maine should require some form of valid identification in order to vote, or voter ID, will…
The Maine State Legislature’s Government Oversight Committee voted unanimously on Friday to investigate a possible conflict of interest between Director…
Frenchville resident and Voice of the People radio host Dan Smeriglio calls himself “an activist first,” so he was ready…
Travis Mills, a retired United States Army staff sergeant, motivational speaker and author, known for his advocacy for wounded veterans,…
A Canadian family that was planning its annual foray to the Maine Moxie Festival is canceling, blaming President Trump. Conrad…
A transgender-identifying male, competing under the name “Katie,” from Cumberland’s Greely High School, came out on top in the girls’…
Gov. Janet Mills announced on Tuesday that Commissioner of the Maine Department of Marine Resources (DMR) Patrick Keliher, who shouted…
As you prepare your annual return, you may already be sensing what a national financial website has found for yet…
When you run for office without the backing of a political party, it can seem like a steeper climb so…
The privileged son of Woody Allen and Mia Farrow came to Maine to blame cable news, Facebook and X for…
The popular old David Letterman gag “Will It Sink or Will It Float?” could use an abandoned Arrowsic boat as…
Governor Janet Mills’ (D) Office of Policy, Innovation and the Future (GOPIF) announced on Friday thirteen new appointees for the…
A Democrat lawmaker has proposed allowing candidates for Attorney General and Secretary of State to participate in the Maine Clean…
Augusta is the worst state capital in the nation, according to a report from the financial outlet WalletHub, based on…
An illegal immigrant is facing deportation after he was caught allegedly scamming an elderly woman in Hermon with an aggressive…
The Trump administration has fired Darcie McElwee, the Biden-appointed U.S. Attorney for the District of Maine, according to the U.S.…
Two Maine Border Patrol stations that cover areas of responsibility of over 100 miles of the U.S.-Canada border have new…
A York woman has proven that even liberals sometimes have a sense of humor. Wendy Werner just became a finalist…
If you thought it couldn’t get any more insane at the Portland Press Herald, consider this: the publisher canceled the…
University of Southern Maine wants to make sure that new students are comfortable in their space or else it might…
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) this week announced the arrest of an illegal Guatemalan national who was released by…
A middle school teacher from Claremont, New Hampshire, was arrested last week for stalking one of her students after she…
President Donald Trump is on track to have all of his Cabinet nominees confirmed despite a slim Republican majority in…