York deputies arrested two wanted thieves in Lebanon on Wednesday after one was found hiding in a residence and the…
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Maine’s unemployment rate held steady in September at 3.2 percent, a figure that remained unchanged from the previous month. Despite…
The Rockland Police Department arrested an Arkansas sex offender on Sunday for failing to comply with sex offender registration, less…
The nomination of Judge Andrew Benson to serve as U.S. Attorney for the District of Maine cleared a major hurdle…
Critics abound, and they always will. They should. Pursuing truth is a high calling. Our Founders urged us to test…
A New York City man has admitted he carried out a years-long scheme that combined mortgage fraud and an illegal…
A Wood Road home was leveled Tuesday night after a fast-moving fire tore through the structure, prompting a multi-agency response…
An expensive new taxpayer-financed roundabout in Damariscotta was supposed to improve safety at a dangerous spot. But the only thing…
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sens. Susan Collins (R) and Angus King (I) of Maine on Wednesday announced their nominees to the…
The Sanford Police Department arrested an alleged robber on Sunday who reportedly stole from a Springvale 7-Eleven gas station six…
Getting her car fixed with federal trail-maintenance money gave prosecutors a hint she wasn’t operating on all cylinders. They ended…
The Brunswick Police Department busted two alleged poachers on Monday after they were discovered with two dead deer early in…
A new omnibus poll from Pan Atlantic Research, a Portland-based research company headed by former Maine Democratic Party chair Victoria…
Regional School Unit (RSU) 9 school board member Griffin Mayhew, 26, representing Wilton, died unexpectedly on Monday, just months after…
Regional School Unit 24 voted Tuesday night to reaffirm its policy requiring students to use bathrooms and compete on sports…
Sen. Susan Collins (R) and Sen. Angus King (I) announced Tuesday that ten Maine organizations will be receiving a combined…
The political firestorm surrounding Gateway Community Services, the Somali-run nonprofit accused of defrauding Maine’s Medicaid system, is rapidly escalating, and…
Bharat Awasarmol, 49, residing in New Jersey, pleaded guilty in federal court on Tuesday to fraud charges related to a…
Two out-of-state investment companies that are buying up trailer parks are among six nationwide under congressional scrutiny. The Joint Economic…
Current Maine State Auditor Matt Dunlap, now running for the Second Congressional District House seat soon to be vacated by…
Another day in Lewiston brought yet another cascade of questions, contradictions, and controversies, from nonprofit leaders refusing to comment, to…
Portland’s Planning Board on Tuesday unanimously approved a 30-story tower that would become the tallest building in Maine, clearing the…
The captain of a Vinalhaven-bound ferry had just left the Rockland dock when his crewmen suddenly told him he needed…
A new wave of fake federal agents is sweeping Maine, which now leads all U.S. states in scammer border cops…
U.S. Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) has reached out to members of the Trump Administration urging them to provide relief to…
A member of the Goffstown, New Hampshire, school board claimed that allowing a Turning Point USA (TPUSA) chapter would cause…
By Owen McCarthy I grew up in a trailer in Patten, the son of a logger and a lunch lady.…
Illegal border crossers who need sanctuary from U.S. limits on their conveniently discovered “freedoms” have a home in Rockland, Maine.…
A tense MSAD 72 school committee meeting Monday night erupted with calls for accountability after a seven-year-old special-needs student disappeared…
U.S. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) is partnering with Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) on new legislation aimed at reshaping Affordable Care…
An Androscoggin County man charged with fatally shooting a cat says he did so because the animal was clearly suffering…
Education Secretary Linda McMahon announced late last month that the Department of Education (DOE) will be outsourcing several of its…
A substitute teacher at Montello Elementary in Maine’s second-largest city is under fire after telling a room of third-graders that…
Led by Sen. Susan Collins (R) and Rep. Chellie Pingree (D), Maine’s Congressional delegation has joined together to introduce a…
Governor Janet Mills (D) will soon learn whether she’s really political bedfellows – even though odd ones – with the…
A tip about a suspicious vehicle led Old Orchard Beach police to a significant drug bust Saturday afternoon. Police officers…
Bangor hooligans were out in force to whine about the cost of preserving freedom on the eve U.S. remembering its…
State Sen. Matthew Harrington (R) is demanding immediate transparency from Gov. Janet Mills (D) after what he describes as a…
A man is facing kidnapping charges after a high-speed chase through New Hampshire. State troopers attempted a traffic stop Saturday…
A Westbrook man who allegedly murdered his neighbor is denying the charge. James Fowler, 48, pleaded not guilty Monday in…
An Androscoggin County man has been charged in connection with shooting and killing a cat, police said. Jake Cyr, 34,…
A growing chorus of frustrated Lewiston residents is demanding accountability from City Hall, accusing city leaders of failing to enforce…
Multiple national news outlets published reports on Monday citing whistle-blower allegations about fraud and corruption by the Maine-based Gateway Community…
A Maine man who admitted to gunning down a Westbrook couple as their children watched from the backseat has been…
Five people were arrested Thursday in connection with a months-long drug trafficking investigation in Livermore Falls, the Maine Drug Enforcement…
Bates College faculty have unanimously voted to delay a sweeping new mandatory curriculum on race, power, privilege, and colonialism, pushing…
An MSAD 72 elementary school student being transported to an out-of-district placement by a substitute van driver went missing for…
Lewiston residents will get a new primary in how the criminal justice process and local politics can intersect as a…
A Cumberland County judge has rejected the state’s push to impose a sweeping 500-foot buffer zone around the Planned Parenthood…
As Lewiston plunges deeper into the scandal surrounding councilor-elect Iman Osman, attorney and Democratic legislative hopeful Kiernan Majerus-Collins is once…
The only Maine daily other than those owned by you know who says it has decided to ignore any news…
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A Republican candidate for governor is pushing back after the Maine Democratic State Committee accused him of racism in response…
The board of the Spruce Mountain school district, or RSU 73, voted on Thursday night to stick with their amended…
An Iraqi national living unlawfully in the United States was arrested in Ellsworth after federal agents say he attempted to…
Just three weeks after receiving one of France’s highest military honors, a decorated WWII veteran from Maine has died. Shay,…
Children in town of Hallowell, on the Western bank of the Kennebec River, are asking Maine Governor Janet Mills for…
In what authorities are calling a brazen and costly theft, a Falmouth oyster farmer has lost years of work and…
A political firestorm in Lewiston is intensifying as Councilor-elect Iman Osman, now indicted on theft-related charges, insists he will take…
Maine’s Revenue Forecast Committee delivered a fresh projection Monday showing state revenues continuing to climb over the next two fiscal…
The Maine State Fire Marshal is investigating a fatal fire at a Sumner home that was powered exclusively by solar…
Data shared by the Maine State Housing Authority shows that Mainers from the northern-most parts of the state have so…
The East-Central Maine version of liberal Portland, besieged like its southern big-sister city with rag-tag “homeless” encampments, is going high…
Beginning on January 1, Mainers who subscribe to streaming services like Netflix, Hulu, and Spotify may see a new charge…
A liberal political lobby announced Wednesday it’s going after Maine’s Angus King for going soft on President Trump. But in…
The Paris Police Department arrested an alleged homeless burglar on Wednesday, who had been arrested and released twice in November.…
The Rockland Police Department arrested a South Thomaston man on Tuesday after officers allegedly saw him hiding drug paraphernalia during…
A Lewiston man has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for illegally possessing a firearm, adding yet another…
Four members of the Lewiston School Committee on Thursday called for Ward 5 representative Iman Osman to resign following his…
The U.S. House of Representatives acted to combat the influence of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on American schools on…
Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows has joined eleven of her counterparts in sending a letter to the Department of…
If it seems Senate hopeful Janet Mills is stepping up her social-media campaign, there may be a reason. The Hermon…
Democrat Senate hopeful Graham Platner has weathered the news about his tattoo and past Reddit posts, as a new poll…
Lewiston, Maine, once stood as a monument to American resilience, a booming mill city powered by the Androscoggin River, strengthened…
An early-morning fire at the former Noble Barbeque building on Forest Avenue brought a full Portland Fire Department response Wednesday,…
More than 500 Portland-area high school students walked out of class Wednesday and marched through the city’s downtown in a…
The Florida boat that flipped killing a Maine couple and their friend was going as fast as 80 mph at…
Portland Public Schools Superintendent Ryan Scallon issued a forceful statement Wednesday denouncing President Donald Trump’s recent comments about Somali immigrants,…
With temperatures expected to plunge into dangerous territory beginning Thursday, Portland officials will activate the city’s winter warming center, a…
A Portland man accused of stabbing his roommate to death has pushed his bail hearing into next year after refusing…
A Facebook group whose 21,000 members are focused on “car spotting” are suddenly obsessed with a Christmas tree on the…
A year-long investigation by the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency (MDEA) culminated in the arrests of three alleged drug traffickers in…
Police in Rockland arrested a man on drug charges on Thanksgiving Day who was already subject to nine separate active…
Beginning Wednesday, December 3, the Maine State Housing Authority will be opening its Energy Crisis Intervention Program (ECIP) for the…
Former Portland cop and Cumberland County Sheriff Mark Dion fancies himself as Maine’s next governor. After all, the law-school grad…
The Piscataquis County Sheriff’s Department arrested a lifetime sex offender registrant from Orneville on Tuesday following a “brutal” October assault…
The Maine State Police launched its new Cold Case Deck of Cards program on Wednesday, which will distribute cards featuring…
A Lewiston city councilor is sharply criticizing the city’s School Committee after it voted last Monday to block an investigation…
Iman Osman, 36, who was elected in November to represent Ward 5 on the Lewiston City Council, was indicted Wednesday…
Two Bangor residents were arrested on Monday after they allegedly fled the scene of a drunk driving crash. [RELATED: Brunswick…
The owner of a York driving academy is facing assault and disorderly-conduct charges, police said. Stephen Graziano, a driving instructor…
Trump administration officials said Tuesday they will move to withhold SNAP food aid from recipients in most Democratic-controlled states starting…
The Maine State Fire Marshal’s Office is investigating a fire that broke out Monday evening at a home on Andrew…
Residents in Lyman say tractor-trailers continue to travel down Route 35 southbound despite the road being clearly closed as crews…
Three people with connections to Maine were killed over the weekend in a high-speed boating crash in the Florida Keys,…
Maine lawmakers have scheduled a work session for a bipartisan bill that would subject state agencies to zero-based budgeting once…
Nearly $40 million in long-awaited home heating aid is finally headed to Maine after the Department of Health and Human…
Maine leaders are sounding alarms over a federal effort to tighten commercial driver’s license rules, but their warnings focus on…
The Zumwalt class of stealth destroyers, built at Bath Iron Works, are under fire from Congress for failed systems, according…
The family and friends of an avid Portland runner are insisting she didn’t cross the street against the light before…