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U.S. Senators from Maine Susan Collins and Angus King sent a letter Thursday to the Inspector General of the U.S.…
A marijuana dispensary in Portland that is owned by an Israeli immigrant was targeted last week with “Free Palestine” posters,…
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration (MARAD) announced a $14 million “port improvement project” at the Portland International Marine…
The Maine Democratic Party was the recipient of $100,000 in donations stemming from notorious fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried’s corrupt FTX cryptocurrency…
Democratic Congressman Jared Golden of Maine’s 2nd District slammed House Republicans Thursday after his proposed amendment to prohibit commercial offshore…
A Bangor woman was sentenced to 30 years in prison Wednesday for numerous drug trafficking offenses, a sentence the Maine…
A Connecticut Superior Court judge has overturned the results of the City of Bridgeport’s Democratic mayoral primary election over the…
Mainers’ data privacy is once again set to be a focal point for lawmakers in Augusta. Next Wednesday, members of…
Democratic U.S. Congressman from Maine’s 2nd District Jared Golden joined 31 of his fellow House Democrats Wednesday in voting against…
[UPDATE: The shelter in place order for all MSAD 75 schools has now been lifted after the Caribou man who…
Maine State Police Col. William Ross faced tough questions Thursday morning regarding the manhunt for Lewiston shooter Robert Card during…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills announced Wednesday her intent to form an “independent commission of experts” in the coming days to…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills on Wednesday said she would be forming an independent commission to examine the failures and oversights…
Portland’s largest homeless encampment at the Marginal Way Park and Ride is being cleared out Wednesday by city officials and…
On November 7, Mainers will be asked to go to the ballot box to weigh in on eight referendum questions…
An international wind power company is pulling the plug on a major offshore wind development favored by the Biden Administration,…
The Maine Drug Enforcement Agency (MDEA) and the Sabattus Police Department announced Thursday the arrest of two individuals on drug…
Wednesday night in Lewiston, eighteen people between the ages of 14 and 76 were killed in the worst mass shooting…
The Army Reserve unit that mass murderer Robert R. Card Jr. served in since 2002 also contains several members of…
A Jewish lawyer who has been practicing law in southern Maine since 1979 had his Portland office targeted this weekend…
In a letter to his constituents published Sunday to his “Dear Mainer” Substack, Democratic Congressman from Maine’s 2nd District Jared…
The Maine Wire reached out to Maine’s top Republican lawmakers Thursday morning to get their thoughts on Wednesday evening’s shooting…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills confirmed Thursday that 18 people were killed and 13 injured in Wednesday night’s mass shooting in…
Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey joined 42 attorneys general across the U.S. Tuesday in suing Meta, the parent company of…
Earlier this year, the State Legislature passed one of the least restrictive abortion laws in the nation — as of…
The Maine Ethics Commission voted unanimously Wednesday to take no further action in an investigation into whether Senate President Troy…
Maine is soon to join California in the adoption of stringent mandates requiring a hefty percentage of new car sales…
Gov. Janet Mills (D) announced earlier this week that Madison will be getting a new 36 unit affordable housing development…
Republican U.S. Senator from Maine Susan Collins, alongside a bipartisan delegation of Senators, gave remarks at a press conference Sunday…
Maine’s community colleges saw historically high enrollment this fall, surpassing the previous record which had been set in 2011, according…
A Missouri man accused of illegally crossing the U.S.-Canada border in Hodgdon, Maine, in an attempt to smuggle his wife…
A Norway man accused of having filed multiple fraudulent loan applications to gain over $240,000 from a pandemic-era loan program…
Two more of Portland’s homeless encampments are set to be cleared on November 1 in addition to the one located…
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announced a draft Wind Energy Area (WEA) on Thursday identifying over 3.5 million…
Municipalities throughout Maine have been struggling to accommodate the state’s rapidly growing refugee and asylum seeker populations — and things…
The Mills Administration released a report Wednesday detailing how the governor has spent the nearly $1 billion in COVID-era relief…
The Maine Department of Education (MDOE) is currently accepting public comment on its revised learning standards for Science as part…
Maine is expected to continue doling out 207 area codes until September of 2032 — three and a half years…
A Brunswick pastor preaching outside Portland’s Planned Parenthood abortion clinic Tuesday was told by police that he was violating the…
Portland Police announced Wednesday that a juvenile has been arrested in connection to a drive-by shooting that occurred in Kennedy…
UPDATE: This story has been updated to include comments from Harold Pachios. The City of Portland’s Committee on Sustainability and…
Gov. Janet Mills declared at a Tuesday afternoon ceremony held at the Blaine House that October is now Domestic Violence…
York County now has plans to spend $45 million in an effort to address Maine’s opioid epidemic through the construction…
The Maine Department of Education (MDOE) is currently accepting public comment on its revised Social Studies learning standards as part…
Maine State Rep. Ann Fredericks (R-Sanford) has submitted a request for a resolution in the second legislative session that would…
The leader of a Democratic Socialists of America rally in Maine that called Hamas’s terror attacks in Israel a “morally…
Throughout the country, most people saw increased earnings this past spring — except for in Maine. Nationwide, personal income reportedly…
The Maine State Legislature’s Judiciary Committee is scheduled to meet tomorrow to discuss two pieces of data privacy legislation up…
The Portland City Council is set to reconsider declaring a state of limited emergency to expand capacity at the city’s…
Two Lewiston teens were arrested late Saturday night after a traffic stop led to the discovery of a stolen firearm…
All four members of Maine’s Congressional delegation have issued public statements in recent days concerning Hamas’ attacks on Israel, strongly…
Maine lawmakers are poised to once again consider increasing the state minimum wage during their next legislative session. This past…
School board meetings have become a source of heated and highly contentious debate in recent years with parents and community…
A man was arrested Thursday near Portland’s largest homeless encampment at the Marginal Way Park and Ride after reportedly entering…
Charter schools may once again be a topic of discussion in Augusta next year. A bill lifting the enrollment cap…
As the death toll in the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict continues to rise, the Maine Democratic Socialists of America (Maine DSA)…
Maine State Rep. Katrina Smith (R-Palermo) has requested to introduce a bill in the second legislative session restricting the sale…
Aidan Kearney, the blogger behind “Turtleboy Daily News,” was arrested Wednesday morning on several counts of witness intimidation and one…
State lawmakers are currently poised to consider a number of changes to the laws surrounding homelessness — an issue that…
Washington D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb has issued subpoenas to the liberal dark money giant Arabella Advisors and its multibillion-dollar…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills committed an apparent social media blunder on Monday evening, posting images of Portland, Maine’s notorious Marginal…
Oral arguments took place this morning before Boston’s First Circuit Court of Appeals in the case against the Maine Secretary…
Schools in the Bonny Eagle School District (MSAD #6) have begun taking steps to ensure that underage students are not…
A South Thomaston man was sentenced to one-and-a-half years in prison earlier this week for fraudulently obtaining over $1 million…
Maine’s three refugee resettlement agencies have been approved to resettle double the amount of refugees in fiscal year 2024 (FY24)…
The State of Maine, alongside 49 other states, has reached a settlement with the software company Blackbaud after a 2020…
Residents of Portland’s largest homeless encampment at the Marginal Way Park and Ride lot now have less than a month…
Parents of Hermon High School students were asked earlier this year to decide whether their student should be allowed access…
Portland Mayor Kate Snyder delivered her final State of the City Address as mayor Monday afternoon, focusing primarily on the…
Later this week, the Supreme Court will be hearing a case that originated in Maine several years ago — Acheson…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills announced Friday the latest round of grants awarded through the state’s Community Resilience Partnership, which since…
The impending federal government shutdown was averted late Saturday after President Joe Biden signed a temporary funding bill that passed…
Maine Sen. Angus King and Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W. Va.) earlier this week introduced a bipartisan resolution to designate…
Portland business owners and retail workers joined the organization “Enough is Enough” to release a video Thursday drawing attention to…
The ACLU of Maine joined the Communist Party for Socialism and Liberation and other advocacy groups Tuesday to urge the…
A South Portland Police K-9 team successfully located a burglary suspect Wednesday who had fled the scene and hidden himself…
Information released this month by Portland officials revealed that the city’s effort to place roughly 100 homeless individuals in shelters…
When the State Legislature reconvenes next year, Maine lawmakers will consider two proposals that would strengthen Mainers’ right to privacy…
A Cumberland, Maine, Town Council meeting became heated Tuesday evening when a parent confronted the Councilors with sexually explicit images…
The former Longley Elementary School in Lewiston — currently being used for adult education classes — was broken into and…
The new Director of the Maine Center for Disease Control (CDC) Dr. Puthiery Va joined the taxpayer-funded Maine Calling radio…
A school teacher at private school in Maine was fired after he vocally criticized so-called “diversity, equity, and inclusion” programming…
Auburn Police received a call Wednesday reporting that a man in the area of 21 Center Street was displaying a…
In a Tuesday evening debate hosted by CBS 13, Fox 23 and the Bangor Daily News, Portland’s 2023 mayoral candidates…
Boston University announced Wednesday that it is launching an inquiry into Dr. Ibram X. Kendi’s Center for Antiracist Research (CAR)…
Democratic lawmakers from southern Maine are crying foul over public meetings concerning the proposed Pickett Mountain mining project. The Land…
The senior House Republican on the legislative committee that oversees insurance in Maine joined WVOM’s George Hale and Ric Tyler…
The United States Climate Alliance — of which Gov. Janet Mills (D) is a co-chair — announced today a new…
Unanswered questions linger regarding a July 911 call to the South Portland Police Department asking police to respond to the…
Maine school libraries are stocking a children’s graphic novel meant to teach “news literacy” that contains thinly veiled allusions to…
There were approximately 320 students from homeless families enrolled in the Portland Public School (PPS) system during the 2022-2023 school…
Maine State Rep. Mike Soboleski (R-Phillips) announced Thursday that he is officially entering the Republican primary election for a chance…
As part of the nearly $1 billion in federal funds Maine received from the 2021 American Rescue Plan Act, Gov.…
The Bar Harbor Town Council voted unanimously earlier this week to dissolve the Council’s cruise ship committee. The committee was…
Mainers learned this week that left-wing mega donor Johann Georg Wyss, known as Hansjörg Wyss, bankrolled a national nonprofit’s purchase…
“How does a boy become a man?” Out of the blue, that question was put to my middle-aged son by…
Parents in the Maine School Administrative District #51 (MSAD #51) pushed back against pornographic books in the district’s school libraries…
Confused Mainers watched as pink vapor billowed out the chimney of the EcoMaine waste management plant in Portland back in…
The majority of daily news outlets in Maine are now bankrolled by some of the country’s largest donors to the…