After holding its inaugural meeting last week, the Portland City Council on Monday held a workshop to discuss and identify…
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The controversial satanic holiday display erected outside the New Hampshire State House in Concord was found destroyed Tuesday morning, just…
An man formerly of Presque Isle, Maine, was sentenced to six years in prison this week for the possession of…
The City of Portland has issued a request for grant applications in order to find partner organizations to launch a…
A new trend sweeping Maine schools has parents concerned about the lack of transparency surrounding medical treatments — including sex-change…
The man who was arrested last week in connection to a late November murder in Portland has a lengthy criminal…
The Satanic Temple of New Hampshire and Vermont (TST) installed a satanic holiday display outside the New Hampshire State Capitol…
Lisa DeSisto, CEO and publisher of the Maine Trust for Local News, has stepped down — marking the second resignation…
The FBI arrested far-left Boston City Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson on Friday on corruption charges for allegedly funneling taxpayer funds…
The State of Maine’s Office of Tourism has awarded a $165,000 grant to a black travel influencer as part of…
A Wednesday stabbing at Portland’s Munjoy South Apartments left a 56-year-old man in critical condition, police announced on Thursday. Portland…
An illegal alien who has been deported from the United States at least seven times and who has five felony…
A 21-year-old driving without a license led Portland Police on a high-speed chase Wednesday before being apprehended and found in…
Following the swearing in of the 132nd Maine State Legislature on Wednesday, Sen. Rick Bennett (R-Oxford) was set to introduce…
A Westbrook man who had an eight-hour standoff with police after they responded to his residence over a report of…
A Mexican national who was previously deported from the United States again faces deportation after being sentenced for illegal reentry…
Portland Police announced on Wednesday that they have arrested a suspect for murder in connection to an ongoing investigation into…
The University of Maine (UMaine) has denied Calvary Chapel Belfast’s appeal of the institution’s decision to sell the former Hutchinson…
Ranked choice voting has recently taken center stage following the November 5 election, during which a number of critical state,…
The Maine State Housing Authority announced this past Wednesday that the agency had awarded $12.8 million worth of state and…
Maine’s state racial equity commission has entered into a taxpayer-funded $7,000 contract with a Waterville-based company to sponsor educational walking…
The South Portland City Council unanimously approved the creation of a new Tax Increment Financing District (TIF District) and thirty…
The Mills administration has made a $50,000 taxpayer-funded purchase of larger size nursing bras that they say will help support…
A Saturday recount revealed that Bar Harbor residents rejected an updated cruise ship disembarkation ordinance by just 65 votes, upholding…
The State of Maine reached a settlement Tuesday with the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) in a lawsuit over…
President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for Border Czar, Tom Homan, issued a stark warning on Tuesday to any Democratic officials obstructing…
A federal judge in Bangor has ruled against five Maine lobstermen who sued Maine Department of Marine Fisheries (MDMR) Commissioner…
U.S. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) will take over as the head of the extremely influential Senate Appropriations Committee after Republicans…
An Auburn man who was the subject of the months-long in investigation into suspecting drug dealing activities was arrested Wednesday…
Just a week before Thanksgiving, the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry (DACF) demanded that a longtime Somerset County…
A Maine Republican lawmaker who a week before election day turned himself in to police over an alleged aggravated assault…
Criminal illegal migrants continue to be apprehended in Massachusetts as the state’s Democratic leaders make clear their opposition to President-elect…
At a Tuesday meeting of the Portland Board of Public Education, at-large member and Board Chair Sarah Lentz claimed that…
The Maine Department of Economic and Community Development has awarded $260,000 to a coalition of Maine-based defense contractors and educational…
Socialist Portland City Councilor Kate Sykes’ proposal for a task force to study how city might utilize a new “social…
The Mills administration has allocated funds to extend pediatric behavioral health programs run by MaineHealth for an additional year that…
A Portland man who was previously convicted for the possession of child pornography has been sentenced to 12 years in…
Five additional suspects have been arrested by Portland Police in recent days in connection to a July shooting on Forest…
Republicans and Democrats in the Massachusetts State House united on Thursday to support a bill that State Auditor Diana DiZoglio…
At the start of this year, Democratic Congressman Jared Golden (ME-02) signed onto a letter urging the Biden administration to…
The illegal alien who in April caused a fatal car crash on I-95 in April, leaving an Albion woman dead…
A longtime resident of Portland’s Bayside neighborhood who says she was the victim of a brutal mugging is warning women…
U.S. Sen. Susan Collins (R) made it known during a campaign stop in Vassalboro Friday that she intends to seek…
The Maine Secretary of State on Monday continued with a series of recounts in races for the State Legislature that…
Sanford City Clerk Sue Cote told the City Council during their meeting last Tuesday that the Nov. 5 election, the…
The York County Sheriff’s Office is looking for the owner of an 8-foot Boa constrictor a deputy found on the…
A Scarborough man who was found passed out in his car at a Portland gas station was arrested after the…
Maine’s Second Congressional District is headed for a recount that could last weeks after incumbent Democratic U.S. Rep. Jared Golden…
In response to President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of a decorated military veteran and best-selling author to head the Department of…
A traffic stop Wednesday afternoon in Topsham led to the arrest of a an illegal alien on felony drug trafficking…
The Maine Secretary of State’s Office announced Thursday that recounts have been scheduled in nine races for seats in the…
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has ruled against a motion filed by several anonymous men seeking to keep their identities…
A Maine resident, who asked to remain anonymous, finally received a response to a Feb. 2024 request for public records…
A Maine man who allegedly confronted and shot at Cumberland County Sheriff’s deputies with a firearm outside of a residence…
The Maine Secretary of State’s office responded Wednesday to inquiries from media, party officials, elected representatives, and political professionals about…
The Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) has granted nearly half a million dollars to a Lewiston-based nonprofit…
The Bayside neighborhood in Portland has accounted for nearly a third of the city’s arrests and about 40 percent of…
Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey announced on Tuesday that a Portland woman has been found guilty of charge of theft…
In a statement issued following former President Donald Trump’s resounding victory over Vice President Kamala Harris last week, the executive…
Four suspects were arrested on drug charges last week after the Somerset County Sheriff’s Office found approximately $40,000 in methamphetamine,…
Nearly 60 percent of Portland voters supported a measure Tuesday allowing local emergency wage provisions to go into effect only…
Voters in Bar Harbor narrowly rejected a proposal Tuesday that would have overturned a 2022 ordinance capping the number of…
A Maine doctor has been arrested and charged with sex trafficking after being accused of running an illicit massage business…
On the heels of a disappointing election Tuesday for Maine Republicans, in which they failed to obtain a majority in…
On Tuesday, Mainers made their voices heard not only on a number of key state, federal, and local elections, but…
Maine’s Second Congressional District race between incumbent Democratic U.S. Rep. Jared Golden and Republican State Rep. Austin Theriault is headed…
Republicans in the State House of Representatives—fresh off yet another disappointing election cycle—are poised to cast votes for leadership positions…
Wes Pelletier, a longtime member of the Maine Democratic Socialists of America (Maine DSA) was elected to the Portland City…
Two Portland City Councilors are seeking to put a 180-day prohibition on the approval of new hotel projects in the…
Vice Presidential nominee Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) campaigned in New Hampshire on Sunday, two days before the election, after recent…
In business since the 1950s, Cookie Jar Bakery in Cape Elizabeth is now fighting to retain use of the four…
David M. Rollins, the former Democratic mayor of Augusta and a longtime city councilor, is denying allegations leveled by a…
John L. Martin, the longtime Democratic politician and master State House strategist, was found unconscious Sunday morning in his driveway…
The Sudanese refugee who in July was arrested for allegedly threatening to shoot up a fried chicken restaurant in Portland…
Kiernan Majerus-Collins, a former member of the Maine Democratic Party State Committee for Androscoggin County, called Republican voters the “most…
The owner of a Boston-based pizzeria chain with locations throughout Massachusetts was sentenced last week to more than eight years…
An arrest has been made in connection to Monday afternoon shooting in Portland’s Bayside neighborhood that left one man dead,…
Former Republican President Donald Trump has a slight lead over Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris in New Hampshire as Election…
Last month the Maine Department of Education (Maine DOE) launched a first-in-the-nation project aimed at bringing collections of children’s picture…
The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) on Tuesday will hold the first competitive auction for roughly 850,000 acres…
Concerns over the state of the economy loom large in Mainers’ minds, and there are significant partisan gaps when it…
Maine’s Committee on Judicial Conduct has reportedly said that Justice Catherine Connors of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court violated the…
Two men, including one Chinese national, were arrested in Farmington on Monday after police discovered 115 pounds of marijuana in…
A Lewiston man known as “Biggie” was arrested on Wednesday and is now facing federal drug and firearm charges after…
The Maine Commission on Public Defense Services, formerly known as the Maine Commission on Indigent Legal Services, is seeking to…
Maine’s civic health currently is strong, according to Maine’s first Civic Health Report from Colby College’s Goldfarb Center for Public Affairs, Public…
Four people were arrested on drug trafficking charges after authorities found over $200,000 worth of fentanyl and methamphetamine inside of…
The Franklin County Sheriff’s office made back-to-back traffic stops last Wednesday and Thursday that led to involvement from U.S. Customs…
The number of apprehensions of migrants entering the U.S. illegally across the northern border in Maine’s Houlton Sector reached a…
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Maine voters may be some of the nation’s most powerful in the upcoming election, according to a recent report published…
Portland Mayor Mark Dion on Monday offered an apology to the city’s Jewish community for his vote last month in…
South Portland voters will be asked to make their voices heard on several questions this November, including a proposed charter…
The Portland City Council on Monday rejected a resolution proposed by Mayor Mark Dion that was aimed at reducing the…
Federal officials have rejected Maine’s application for $456 million to construct an offshore wind port at Sears Island. According to…
Monthly abortion numbers grew dramatically in the first six months of 2024, according to a report released Tuesday by the…
Two people are dead and several others were hospitalized from carbon monoxide poisoning at a home in Freedom that was…
Residents of Portland will be asked to weigh in on two ballot questions when they go to the polls in…
The U.S. Attorney’s Office in New Hampshire indicted ten people last Wednesday in connection with a Lawrence and Methuen, Massachusetts-based…
The New Hampshire State Police arrested four people in the state’s capital last Monday, busting a Concord-based drug distribution ring.…