A traffic stop early Tuesday morning in Lewiston led to the arrest of a felon out on bail after a…
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U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced on Tuesday the arrest of an illegal alien charged with five counts of…
Last week, the Maine Department of Labor (MDOL) unveiled an updated set of regulations for the state’s new Paid Family…
A Dixfield man has been arrested after authorities found a 9-month-old baby girl suffering from an opioid overdose at a…
Long Creek Youth Development Center in South Portland, Maine’s only juvenile correctional facility, will be offering its high school-aged incarcerated…
At a special meeting this Wednesday, the Portland City Council will consider adopting a resolution to divest the city from…
Maine’s ongoing effort to resettle non-citizens will get a $5.4 million boost thanks to a Biden-Harris Administration grant that will…
A fugitive wanted in Maine for multiple firearms violations was apprehended by the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) in Auburn on…
Several Aroostock County Republicans hosted a gathering in Madawaska Wednesday night to discuss concerns over residents’ rising property taxes and…
The search of a residence in Palmyra by the Somerset County Sheriff’s Office on Thursday led to the seizure of…
Planned Parenthood of Northern New England (PPNNE), the largest provider of abortions in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont announced last…
Lewiston city officials, the chief of police and the Androscoggin County district attorney held a press conference on Thursday alongside…
Mainers statewide have been experiencing sticker shock when reviewing their property tax bills for the upcoming fiscal year, and Republican…
Tensions ran high at Portland City Hall on Monday evening as the city’s “justice, diversity, equity and inclusion” (JDEI) office…
Former House Democratic Leader Maureen Terry of Gorham scoffed at then-Rep. Billy Bob Faulkingham (R-Winter Harbor) for proposing a 2021…
A homeless man who in January was charged with assaulting people with a machete outside a Portland apartment complex was…
Firefighters in Lewiston battled a fire that broke out Wednesday afternoon at a College Street home that has been subject…
The Yarmouth Police Department was dealt an unexpected surprise on Monday when resident came to them seeking help disposing of…
Rockland Police announced on Tuesday that they have arrested a man suspected of burglarizing a museum and stealing tools from…
In response to a series of shooting incidents in recent weeks, the Lewiston Police Department, alongside city officials and the…
Mainers statewide have been experiencing sticker shock when reviewing their property tax bills for the upcoming fiscal year. From higher…
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. narrowly met the Maine Secretary of State’s deadline to withdraw his name from…
The director of Maine’s Bureau of General Services has resigned his position with the state less then two months after…
Following a surge in the amount of money spent under the municipal welfare program known as General Assistance, the Mills…
On Friday, the Maine Wire reported on a leaked ICE memo that listed hundreds of jails and police agencies around…
Just a day after Republican candidate for Maine’s 2nd Congressional District Austin Theriault announced that he would be participating in…
A homeless man is facing robbery and criminal threatening charges after allegedly entering a U.S. Post Office in Portland and…
At a “Year of the Gen Z Vote” panel discussion during last week’s Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago, a…
More than 40 percent of Mainers feel that the state is currently on the wrong track — nearly 10 percent…
A back-to-school event with over 300 attendees at Lewiston’s McGraw Park on Friday was interrupted by a teen male firing…
Mainers are divided over the Legislature’s decision to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact — as well as with…
New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella has filed Civil Rights Act complaint against a man accused of vandalizing a Jewish…
The Portland public schools are aiming to ensure that all students have equal outcomes and equal experiences, according to a…
Maine’s Democratic members of Congress, Jared Golden and Chellie Pingree, supported a $500,000 taxpayer-funded “environmental justice” grant for a left-wing…
Two county jails in Maine have been designated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as being in “limited cooperation”…
Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows (D) has ruled that independent presidential candidate Cornel West will be allowed to appear…
A man who led police on multiple chases through the Portland area late last year has pleaded guilty to the…
The Independent Commission to Investigate the Facts of the Tragedy in Lewiston on Tuesday released its final report on the…
Sens. Susan Collins (R) and Angus King (I) have signed onto a letter urging the Acting Secretary of the Department…
A 38-year-old Auburn man who is the subject of a long-term drug trafficking investigation related to the sale of marijuana…
A juvenile male was injured in a drive-by shooting that occurred early Monday morning near the intersection of Pine and…
A man is facing multiple assault charges after being arrested in connection to a baseball attack outside Portland’s Homeless Services…
The Maine Department of Labor (MDOL) released the state’s July employment numbers Friday, revealing that while Maine’s unemployment rate is…
Two days after Christmas 2023, the bodies of Jean C. Robinson, 76, and her daughter, Allison “Joy” Cumming, 53, were…
The Sagadahoc County Democrats have decked their Topsham HQ out with signs in support of Democratic Sheriff Joel Merry for…
The price Mainers will pay for tobacco-free nicotine pouches, a popular alternative to chewing tobacco and cigarettes, has begun to…
Maine’s Public Utilities Commission (PUC) voted unanimously on Tuesday to reject a proposal from Versant Power that would have helped…
The Maine Supreme Court has dismissed a lawsuit against Gov. Janet Mills (D), Senate President Troy Jackson (D-Aroostook), and Speaker…
At a Sanford City Council meeting last week, during which it was decided that the city’s three polling locations would…
The City of Portland is expected to reopen discussion of implementing a Payment-in-Lieu of Taxes (PILOT) program in order to…
A lawsuit filed in federal court on Thursday challenges the constitutionality of Maine’s Interest on Lawyers’ Trust Accounts (IOLTA) program,…
A section of Route 1 in Mid-Coast region was shut down Friday after a tractor trailer truck carrying a wind…
After more than a week of investigating without an arrest, Portland Police announced on Friday that they have arrested a…
A registrant in the Maine Sex Offender Registry was arrested on Thursday after a juvenile victim and witnesses came forward…
A man found guilty of committing a stabbing attack in a Westbrook parking lot this January has been received a…
Just 90 days away from the presidential election this November, the City of Sanford is moving forward with a proposal…
The University of New England (UNE) announced on Wednesday that it is launching four new online courses this fall for…
A man wanted for a felony domestic violence charge was found on Tuesday by Auburn Police in possession of a…
Wells voters overwhelmingly approved an ordinance Tuesday establishing a temporary moratorium on large-scale residential developments. According to the unofficial results…
Maine’s Department of Economic and Community Development (DECD) is looking to spend an estimated $2.7 million in grants on efforts…
Maine has the seventeenth most underprivileged children nationwide with the sixth worst health, according to a recent study by WalletHub.…
While no arrests have yet been made, Portland Police announced on Tuesday that the investigation into last week’s fatal shooting…
A Portland man was struck and killed by a train near Morrill’s Corner on Tuesday evening, according to the Portland…
Following the cringe-worthy fundraising Zoom call from “White Dudes for Harris,” Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign has unveiled its newest…
An investigation launched early last year into a fraudulent vehicle purchasing scheme that targeted online sellers has concluded with the…
A declassified report by the Canadian National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP) revealed earlier this year extensive foreign…
The Maine Secretary of State revealed Monday the final design for the proposed state flag upon which voters will be…
Lewiston City Council President Scott Harriman last week weighed in on a debate surrounding the installing of public toilets in…
Mainers will be asked this November to weigh in on two referendum questions and three separate bonds with a total…
A Sedgwick man is facing up to 60 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to producing and sharing child…
A man’s attempt to hide illegal drugs from law enforcement by flushing them down the toilet of a Waterville residence…
An anonymous local hero was able to get a Portland city employee a parking ticket after reminding the city’s parking…
Over three months since an illegal alien caused a car crash on I-95 in Wells that left a Maine woman…
U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree (D) has co-sponsored a bill introducing a Constitutional amendment that would reverse the Supreme Court’s recent…
The Portland Police Department is investigating an apparent shooting that occurred near Morrill’s Corner Tuesday evening that resulted in four…
A former basketball coach at a Massachusetts high school is facing federal charges for allegedly transporting a former student across…
On Monday, South Portland Police released the identities of one of the two male teens who escaped from South Portland’s…
The public comment period for a set of rules proposed by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has now…
A Westbrook man pleaded guilty in federal court in Portland on Monday to robbing a bank in South Portland in…
A Portland man is facing a charge of attempted murder after allegedly shooting a woman in the arm early Monday…
A crowd of pedestrians leaving an event at Portland’s Merrill Auditorium narrowly avoided being struck by a habitual offender driving…
Law enforcement are still searching for two minors who escaped from South Portland’s Long Creek Youth Development Center on Friday and…
Gov. Janet Mills (D), alongside several members of the federal government, announced Friday that Maine has been awarded a $69…
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack announced Friday that Maine will be receiving a total of $4.3 million in federal…
The Rowe Auto Group will be holding a memorial golf tournament in September to benefit the children of a couple…
The Holocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine (HHRC Maine), a nonprofit organization that describes itself as an “educational resource…
The Town of Cape Elizabeth is now considering two separate proposals aimed at addressing the aging buildings that currently house…
Oral arguments were heard Thursday by the First Circuit Court of Appeals in a lawsuit against the Department of the…
Gov. Janet Mills (D) announced Tuesday that Maine is expected to receive between $45 million and $72 million in federal…
During a new interview with Axios, Rep. Jared Golden (D-Maine) refused to commit to voting for Vice President Kamala Harris…
Compared to June of last year, home sales in Maine have decreased by more than 10 percent, while prices have…
Five people were arrested after police raided a Lewiston drug house for the third time in eight months, Lewiston Police…
While correctional facilities across the State of Maine are providing Medical Assisted Treatment (MAT) aimed at reducing recidivism of inmates…
The Maine Democrat’s candidate for State Senate District 19 was charged with Operating Under the Influence (OUI) in May, according…
The Maine Department of Corrections (DOC) will be launching a prison rehabilitation program specifically tailored for Muslim inmates, aimed at…
A New Jersey man pleaded guilty in federal court in Portland on Tuesday to his role in burglarizing several Maine…
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) will travel to Maine this Saturday to hold rallies in Portland and Bangor “to organize…
The Mills administration is set to spend $130,000 on a taxpayer-funded public service announcement (PSA) campaign pushing Maine parents to…
A man has been arrested after firing a gun during an altercation at a house in Portland Friday morning, police…
Maine politicos have long complained that some lawmakers abuse “concept drafts” to skirt transparency, but a meeting in Augusta Thursday…