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The Lewiston Police Department will hold two information sessions for parents later this month regarding the city’s youth, gun safety…
The push for boilerplate ‘Red Flag’ laws that would give authorities the ability to remove firearms and deny Second Amendment…
Judge Lance Walker issued a federal preliminary injunction on Thursday, halting Maine’s recently established 72-hour waiting period between purchasing and…
Maine’s education system – like that of much of the nation – is in a free-fall, maybe even has already…
Hedge fund tycoon S. Donald Sussman – who once took an ownership stake in the ailing Portland Press Herald -…
Two people are dead after a tractor-trailer crashed through a median and hit two vehicles on the Maine Turnpike in…
The Maine Legislature’s Committee on Veterans and Legal Affairs held a public hearing on Wednesday to consider Rep. Benjamin Hymes’…
Just when you thought all hope for real-time media watchdogging was lost comes a blog devoted to Portland Press Herald…
A man was shot and killed by police in Lincoln after allegedly trying to attack officers with a knife. Officers…
A massive carbon monoxide leak at Building Blocks Daycare in Kittery left seven children hospitalized on Wednesday, along with four…
A shortage of regional emergency dispatchers has triggered a personnel crisis for coordination first responders in at least one county…
A lifetime sex offender registrant from Lewiston was arrested this week after he attempted to meet what he thought was…
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have taken a total of 12 suspected illegal aliens into federal custody at the…
When homeless encampments flourished throughout Maine’s largest city in 2023 and 2024, Maine’s newspaper reporters were eager to tell the…
The Maine Drug Enforcement Agency (MDEA) executed a high-risk search warrant at a Portland apartment building on Tuesday and arrested…
Border Patrol agents recently apprehended five individuals who illegally crossed the U.S.-Canada border near the northernmost Border Patrol station in…
U.S. Senator from Maine Angus King (I) is renewing his push for his “Kids Off Social Media Act,” a bipartisan…
If you think it’s hard running Maine’s biggest embattled newspaper chain, try doing it while you’re also flipping two eggs…
After reaching the next-to-last step in passing a $120 million supplemental spending package, Democratic leaders put off a final vote…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills and her Democratic allies in the Legislature were poised Monday afternoon to once again invoke an…
Fifty years ago, the freshman town manager of Old Orchard Beach angered a state official over the way he was…
Republican U.S. Senator from Maine Susan Collins has stated that she will be voting to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr.…
Three people were arrested are facing a slew of narcotics and other charges after police found methamphetamine, fentanyl, a handgun…
A Maine Democratic lawmaker made a Facebook post for Black History Month celebrating Assata Shakur, an FBI’s most wanted terrorist…
On her second day as Maine’s new public advocate – the official responsible for representing the interests of low-income ratepayers…
A Maine Democratic lawmaker has introduced a bill that would launch a two-year, state-funded pilot program to provide inmates recently…
Portland Police announced Monday morning that they are investigating two deaths in the wooded area behind Hannaford on Riverside Street.…
A traffic stop following a police chase in South Portland early Saturday morning led to the arrest of two Massachusetts…
The head of U.S. Border Patrol operations in Maine’s Houlton sector, which covers encompasses the entire state, coastline and U.S.-Canada…
A group of Republican lawmakers are looking to end the controversial practice of same-day voter registration in Maine. Rep. Barbara…
As Maine faces an impending half-billion dollar budget shortfall, and Gov. Janet Mills (D-Maine) considers a flurry of tax increases…
Maine lawmakers are slated to consider creating protections for workers that will limit how American businesses can use emerging monitoring…
The annual tradition of visiting an auto mechanic to get an inspection sticker could come to an end if a…
A well-connected New England media analyst says he’s “heard from serious people that substantial cuts may be coming” to the…
A Maine man who wanted to be buried in the town cemetery but was told there was no more room…
A Guatemalan national, who was previously deported three times from the U.S. and served a nearly six-year prison sentence in…
A wealthy Maine philanthropist who quietly used his access and money to promote social good is being remembered by the…
The Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) told 8 Investigates that a records request aimed at exposing the…
Democratic Maine Rep. Jared Golden urged his party to pump the brakes on their reflexive, hair-trigger responses to Republican advances…
In the face of a new executive order issued by President Donald Trump on Wednesday imposing significant penalties on schools…
Over a year after the tragic mass shooting that rocked Lewiston in October 2023, scrutiny has emerged over how one…
A man previously arrested for a stabbing in Portland is now being accused of trying to grab, kiss and give…
The Mills administration is seeking an organization to award $300,000 to administer the state’s “social equity program,” a taxpayer-funded affirmative…
The Portland International Jetport has been ordered to stop cutting trees near the runways until authorities can determine whether the…
The South Portland Police announced late Thursday afternoon that they had arrested 20-year-old Ahmed Basheer Awad, who is suspected of…
An automotive trade association based out of Washington D.C. has sued Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey over the enforcement of…
The Kennebec County Democratic Committee pulled its support from a planned protest outside the State Capitol in Augusta on Wednesday…
A Maine-based nonprofit funded entirely by U.S. taxpayers is using its social media presence to teach illegal aliens tips and…
Maine may gradually increase its current limit on charter schools if lawmakers pass a Republican-led bill introduced in late January.…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills’ (D) Office of Policy Innovation and the Future (GOPIF) is partnering with a Brunswick-based nonprofit organization…
The Maine Trust for Local News, already reeling from a string of executive resignations, is now losing the publisher of…
The Trump Administration’s rapid moves to impose fiscal restraint on the sprawling federal bureaucracy will hit at least one governmental…
Police have identified but are still attempting to locate the individual suspected of shooting another person inside the Maine Mall…
Lift tickets are already expensive, but they just got a lot more so for a man who thought he was…
The Maine Legislature’s Judiciary Committee held public hearings on Wednesday regarding two bills that would bring Maine’s public record laws…
Local officials in Bangor, Lewiston, and Portland were reluctant to say whether they would comply with deportations promised by President…
Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey on Wednesday joined with the attorneys general of 14 other states in issuing a statement…
Springing forward and falling back may soon be a thing of the past in Maine if lawmakers advance either of…
U.S. Border Patrol agents in Caswell recently located and captured two Romanian nationals who illegally crossed the northern border into…
A Maine Republican lawmaker has introduced a bill that would classify political affiliation as a protected class under the Maine…
A contractor who’s suffered lengthy zoning delays on a $15 million Portland-area project is now wondering whether it’ll ever get…
A Maine State Police K9, Preacher, was killed in the line of duty on Monday night during a Portage Lake…
A bipartisan group of five New Hampshire state legislators put forward a bill calling on the federal government to declare…
A group of Democrats in the legislature, led by Rep. David Sinclair (D-Bath), put forward a radical criminal justice reform…
Speaker of the House Ryan Fecteau (D-Biddeford) and Senate President Mathea Elizabeth Larson Daughtry (D-Cumberland) will name members of special…
A bill introduced in the Maine Legislature by a Democratic lawmaker seeks to help alleviate the caseload on the state’s…
Lawmakers in Augusta heard arguments on Monday for and against a series of bills that would reform Maine’s campaign finance…
U.S. President Donald Trump and Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum spoke on Monday morning and forged a temporary agreement to delay…
Democratic Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (ME-01) on Monday published a thread on X outlining what steps Congress, federal courts and the…
A Republican lawmaker has proposed amending Maine’s constitution to clearly state that only United States citizens may vote in state…
Are you frustrated with the unorthodox was Mainers elect federal officials or do you think it works well? Members of…
A string of crises facing Kennebunk schools reached a new nadir with embezzlement charges against a newly appointed drama teacher.…
A Yarmouth teenager who was mowed down and killed by a drunk driver more than 30 years ago is about…
Several of the tax increases and changes included in Gov. Janet Mills’ (D) proposed biennial budget are set to have…
President Donald Trump’s Wednesday executive order combating radical gender ideology and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) education in public schools…
Delinquent Maine property taxpayers just got a gift from the newly elected Democrat state treasurer. But guess who has to…
Democrat lawmakers in Augusta have introduced a bill that would impose a three percent sales tax on hotel rentals in…
An effort is underway to give Maine citizens the right to elect their constitutional officers, including the Secretary of State,…
Army Reserve Major and former Maine National Guardsman Michael Gary lost his position in the Guard and faced multiple investigations…
The co-founder of the National Trust for Local News, the “nonprofit” owner of Maine’s largest newspaper chain, who quit on…
The Portland Police Department says they have made significant progress in recent years with their investigations into unsolved homicides, with…
Maine elementary and middle school students are continuing to struggle academically, according to the 2024 Nation’s Report Card. The National…
A columnist who’s among several ousted by Maine’s largest daily paper fears that the next shoe to drop may be…
If the crash Wednesday night of a plane into the Potomac River is reminiscent to Mainers, it’s for good reason.…
In a meandering and at times pedantic speech Tuesday night, Gov. Janet Mills (D) defended her proposed FY 26-27 spending…
The Maine Department of Education (Maine DOE) is seeking grant applications for $650,000 in available funding that will go towards…
A Sanford man was sentenced to a decade in federal prison this week for the possession of fentanyl after police…
A previously deported illegal alien charged in Massachusetts with sex crimes, assault and armed robbery was arrested by U.S. Immigrations…
The Maine Department of Labor (MDOL) released two guides Monday for employers looking to opt out of the state’s new…
Gov. Janet Mills (D) delivered her 2025 State of the Budget Address to a joint session of the Maine Legislature…
A total of 11 men are now facing charges of engaging a person for prostitution following a December raid on…
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) took five suspected illegal aliens into federal custody at Maine’s Cumberland County Jail on…
A “career felon” with 12 prior convictions has been sentenced to 17 years in prison for drug trafficking and firearm…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) and her finance commissioner have remained silent in the face of bipartisan condemnation of the…
A teenager who was injured in a shooting in Lewiston last week is refusing to cooperate with investigators, Lewiston Police…
Auburn Police are investigating a shots fired incident that occurred in the Grove Street neighborhood Sunday evening after a verbal…
Town officials in Gray revealed during a Wednesday meeting of the Zoning Board of Appeals that an applicant to the…
The superintendent of Lewiston Public Schools issued an announcement on Thursday on the “real fear” among the school community regarding…
The Maine Department of Public Safety, through the Bureau of Emergency Medical Services (MEMS), has announced the availability of $1…