A Maine State Police K9, Preacher, was killed in the line of duty on Monday night during a Portage Lake…
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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…
A previously convicted felon was arrested Wednesday after Lewiston Police found a firearm in his apartment during a search connected…
An Auburn man who was out on bail conditions stemming from an October arrest on drug trafficking and firearms charges…
The Maine State Police, along with a Maine Marine Patrol dive team, discovered the sunken wreck of a missing fishing…
On Jan. 1, working people across the state of Maine started paying their share of a new one percent tax…
U.S. Senator from Maine Susan Collins was one of just two Republicans to join Democrats on Thursday in voting against…
At the opening of their Tuesday meeting, several members of the Portland Board of Public Education responded to “unsettling” comments…
Two Democratic lawmakers escalated their efforts to obtain long-overdue reports on Maine’s cannabis industry on Wednesday, writing a letter to…
A group of Democratic lawmakers have put forward a plan to restructure Maine’s income tax brackets, a proposal that will…
Lawmakers in Augusta will be considering a proposal to establish “hope accounts” for Maine students who either are home-schooled or…
Authorities made six arrests during a Tuesday morning search of a Sanford residence being investigated as the site of suspected…
A Canadian national has pleaded guilty to illegally crossing the border into Maine while in possession of methamphetamine and marijuana.…
A group of Maine Republicans have introduced legislation that would withdraw the state from the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact,…
A man armed with a machete was shot and tased by police early Tuesday morning on the Merrymeeting Bridge in…
Sanford Police announced Tuesday morning that they are conducting a joint operation alongside the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency and the…
The Maine Gambling Control Unit (MGCU) reported that sportsbooks in the state accepted $52.7 million in bets during December, a…
Maine’s Land Use Planning Commission (LUPC) unveiled new rules on Friday that will impose additional red tape on Maine property…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) told House Republicans that if they can’t support raising taxes as outlined in her budget,…
A group of Republican lawmakers in Maine are hoping to repeal Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) this legislative session. LD 234…
A foreign national from the Ivory Coast is facing possible deportation from the United States after he was sentenced this…
Lewiston Police announced on Thursday that they have arrested a transient man for allegedly possessing child pornography. Police arrested David…
Two tractor trailers crashed on I-95 in York Thursday afternoon, resulting in serious injuries to the driver of one trailer…
Democratic Congressman from Maine’s 2nd District Jared Golden has reintroduced his proposed bill that would implement a universal 10 percent…
Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows provided an update to the Maine Legislature’s Veterans and Legal Affairs Committee regarding the…
A teen who was the target of a police raid in connection to the “Grand Theft Auto”-style southern Maine drug…
A Buxton man was arrested by South Portland Police on Tuesday in connection to a December shooting incident near the…
Heather Sanborn, Gov. Janet Mills’ pick to serve as Public Advocate for the state, was confirmed by the Maine Legislature’s…
The first person to be charged federally for operating an illegal Chinese-controlled marijuana growing operation in Maine entered a guilty…
Republican leaders say that any Democratic budget that includes tax increases, such as the budget proposal Gov. Janet Mills (D)…
A Portland residence on Eleanor Street was targeted by a second shooting this week, just months after gunfire pierced a…
Gov. Janet Mills (D) has again proposed implementing a tax on streaming service subscriptions in Maine that would raise the…
Gov. Janet Mills (D) released her proposed biennial budget Friday, accompanied by a 129-page piece of enacting legislation. Among these…
Maine will be sending two firefighting crews to California to help battle the devastating fires that continue to ravage the…
The state of Maine is staring down a $450 million “structural deficit” for the 2026-2027 fiscal year. “Structural deficit” is…
Last week, Maine Gov. Janet Mills warned of a $118 million gap in MaineCare funding — a shortfall that appears…
New Hampshire’s new Gov. Kelly Ayotte (R) announced during her inaugural speech on Thursday that she would work to ban…
Maine leaders have decided that the state will not be increasing the minimum legal catch size for lobsters this July…
A Portland man was arrested Sunday after he allegedly stole a boat and caused at least $25,000 of damage to…
Gov. Janet Mills (D) proposed a new one-dollar-per-pack tax increase on cigarettes Friday. The tax proposal comes as Mills attempts…
Sen. Craig Hickman (D-Kennebec) has sponsored a bipartisan bill that would grant the Legislature’s Government Oversight Committee (GOC) the right…
A bipartisan bill imposing an “impact fee” on megayachts has been introduced by Sen. Rick Bennett (R-Oxford) and co-sponsored by…
The first bill of Maine’s 132nd Legislature is a governor’s bill aimed at implementing the recommendations from the Maine Infrastructure…
Gov. Janet Mills (D) has proposed elevating the Governor’s Energy Office (GEO) to a cabinet-level department as part of her…
The Mills Administration warned lawmakers Tuesday that Maine’s looming half-a-billion dollar budget shortfall and a $118 million projected MaineCare deficit…
Oral arguments were heard Tuesday in the cases filed by two Maine Christian schools — St. Dominic Academy in Auburn…
After a year in which many Mainers were burdened with skyrocketing property tax bills, state lawmakers are poised to consider…
U.S. Senator from Maine Susan Collins (R) wrapped up the 118th Congress last week without missing a single vote, extending…
Maine lawmakers have officially begun submitting bills for the new legislative session scheduled to begin Wednesday, and among these are…
The Mills administration managed to botch the rollout of their own new Paid Family and Medical Leave program, mistakenly listing…
A consulting firm based in Massachusetts has been awarded a $300,000 taxpayer-funded contract to advise the Maine Public Utilities Commission…
New Hampshire State Police arrested two Massachusetts residents on Tuesday after a traffic stop in Greenland, N.H., after allegedly discovering…
In his State of the City Address Monday evening, Portland Mayor Mark Dion urged the City Council to reconsider the…
The Democratic majority on the Joint Rules Committee voted Monday to preserve the controversial practice of “concept drafts,” brushing aside…
Commissioner of Maine’s Department of Economic and Community Development (DECD) Heather Johnson will be stepping down from her position on…
Maine’s Secretary of State received more than 170,000 petition signatures on Monday from a conservative group that is looking to…
A Dominican national residing at a state-funded migrant shelter in Massachusetts was recently identified by U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement…
Three people, including two individuals from the State of Georgia, were arrested on drug trafficking charges after a traffic stop…
Maine lawmakers are set to receive a 61 percent higher salary than their predecessors when they reconvene next week. This…
A Dominican national living in the U.S. illegally since crossing the southern border into Texas in early 2023 was arrested…
At its upcoming meeting on Monday, the Portland City Council will consider issuing a Request for Proposals (RFP) for the…
Maine’s Democratic leaders held a press conference in Bath on Thursday to tout the beginning of a new program that…
Beginning Monday, Maine childcare facilities are no longer permitted to use baby gates under most circumstances. Under the new guidance…
Law enforcement seized a large quantity of cocaine, fentanyl, meth and other illegal drugs, as well as seven firearms during…