The Maine State Police has dispatched its bomb squad to Walgreens in Topsham in response to the discovery of a…
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Port City Flooring, a business directly across from one of the city’s largest homeless encampments at the Maine Department of…
Officers from the South Portland Police Department were dispatched at approximately 4 a.m. Friday to Summit Terrace apartments for a…
For the past three years, Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) has been locked in a legal battle with the Maine…
The Cumberland Police Department has found that the Greely High School library is not in violation of Maine state laws…
Maine’s Congressional Delegation is urging the U.S. Department of Justice to shut down numerous illegally operated Chinese marijuana growing operations…
Riding the ferry may become more expensive for tourists and Maine’s island residents alike. The Casco Bay Transit District (CBITD)…
Maine State Representative Mike Soboleski (R-Phillips) is considering challenging Rep. Jared Golden in the 2024 race for Maine’s 2nd Congressional…
A MaineHealth executive hosted an antiracist prayer service in which he had a group of White people apologize for their…
The Maine Supreme Judicial Court ruled in favor of a non-profit prisoner advocacy organization Tuesday, finding that Maine County Commissioners…
Amidst Maine’s push to adopt California-style vehicle emissions standards, the manufacturer that produced the electric buses used by Maine’s major…
According to the Congressional Budget Office, the Inflation Reduction Act, signed into law by President Joe Biden on Aug. 16,…
Maine Policy Institute’s Director of Legislative Affairs Jacob Posik joined the Maine Wire podcast to review everything that has happened…
AUGUSTA – Citizens turned out in droves Thursday morning to make their voices heard at the Maine Department of Environmental…
Gov. Janet Mills announced Thursday that the state’s Budget Stabilization Fund, commonly known as the “Rainy Day Fund,” has reached…
The Daily Caller News Foundation – By Jennie Taer on August 16, 202 https://twitter.com/JennieSTaer/status/1691972541257007194?s=20 The state of Maine has become…
The “asylum seekers” that have been living in the Portland Expo were transported north this morning to their new accommodations.…
Portland Department of Health and Human Services Director Kristen Dow updated the City Council Monday on the progress of the…
A Tuesday post on the subreddit community for Portland claims that residents in the city’s West End neighborhood received a…
The Maine Department of Environmental Protection (Maine DEP) is set to hold a public hearing at 9am on August 17…
Abortion has been at the forefront of politics in Maine this past year. From the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn…
On Monday U.S. Senators from Maine Susan Collins, Angus King, and Congressman Jared Golden announced a $194,000 federal grant from…
From statewide mandates coming down from Augusta to municipal-level initiatives, affordable housing has become a priority for elected officials in…
The $445 million Fiscal Year 2024-2025 supplemental budget passed by the Maine Legislature and signed into law by Gov. Janet…
The Mills Administration has made it a top priority to get Mainers driving electric vehicles (EVs) as part of its…
On Saturday, New Jersey lifeguards discovered a dead humpback whale washed ashore, the latest in a string of unexplained deaths…
The Daily Caller News Foundation – Jennie Taer on August 13, 2023 Even as southern border communities deal with an influx…
On Thursday, Maine Wire Editor-in-Chief Steve Robinson and reporter Edward Tomic visited Portland’s largest three homeless encampments and spoke with…
Maine’s municipal welfare spending, known as General Assistance, has been dominated by the city of Portland over the last four…
Child labor violations are on the rise in Maine, according to a report released earlier this week by the Maine…
Two people were discovered last week to be living on the roof of the Lillian P. Hussey Elementary School in…
Rep. Jared Golden (D) of Maine’s Second Congressional District took over as a co-chair of the Blue Dog Coalition earlier…
Portland Police announced Wednesday that they are investigating the death of a 58-year-old man at a homeless encampment in the…
Speak Up for Life, a pro-life organization run by Rep. Laurel Libby (R-Auburn), has decided today against pursuing a People’s…
The city of Portland has experienced massive increases in spending to accommodate migrants seeking asylum and residents experiencing homelessness, but…
Maine’s second largest labor union is considering illegal tactics, including tactics that could temporarily shut down state government, to gain…
In a letter sent Tuesday to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey (D) declared a state of…
Maine is now on a path toward adopting vehicle emissions regulations akin to those currently on the books in California…
The Maine State Government’s “Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging Specialist” told the Chronicle of Higher Education last year that libraries…
Maine’s Democratic House leadership blamed “older white guys” in their party for opposition to Gov. Janet Mills’ late-term abortion bill…
The Maine Department of Health and Human Services began “unwinding” MaineCare’s 400,000-plus enrollment two months ago by “redetermining” all recipients’…
Eighty-seven-year-old retired teacher and Brunswick resident Marjorie Perkins fended off an assault by a teenage home invader, and then fed…
Data available from the Maine Commission on Governmental Ethics and Election Practices reveals what organizations are spending the most money…
Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey released a letter Friday sent to Chief Jared Mills of the Augusta Police Department announcing…
As illegal crossings over the southern border surge and Maine reckons with a migrant crisis of its own, the U.S.…
The ACLU of Maine is calling upon the owners of Cyr Bus Line to end its practice of allowing U.S.…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills signed an executive order Wednesday that will lead to the creation of a new state office…
Maine Sen. Susan Collins was among 15 Republican U.S. Senators who voted in favor of the “Bipartisan Safer Communities Act”…
Advocates for a ballot question this fall that would lead the state to take control of Maine’s power grid have…
The following story is from NHJournal.com and is re-published here with permission. To read the original or see other New…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills approved on Thursday a bill to authorize and fund the construction of a port on the…
Public records from Maine’s child welfare agency show multiple child protective services employees were disciplined, but not fired, for failures…
A state commission created to address “structural racism” in Maine prohibited Mainers of “dominant racial groups” from speaking or asking…
An insider at MaineHealth, the state’s largest healthcare organization, is sounding the alarm on the frequency with which transgender children…
On Friday, Gov. Janet Mills (D) signed LD 1364 into law, officially establishing a working group to study the potential…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills sent an email Friday letting subscribers know that she signed a bill that will allow 16-year-olds…
Last week city officials in Sanford suspended a syringe exchange program and cleaned up a homeless encampment at Heritage Crossing…
President Joe Biden made his first visit as president to Maine on Friday, giving a short speech at an Auburn…
Maine State Sen. Eric Brakey (R-Androscoggin), one of a select few Republican state officials invited to President Joe Biden’s event…
In her most recent public speaking opportunity since she told her supporters to “storm the capitol” on Juneteenth, Maine House…
Socialist Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders on Thursday endorsed a ballot question campaign that would in theory force the owners of…
When a flyer produced by the Maine Attorney General’s Office on the state’s abortion laws became politically problematic for Gov.…
The following is an op-ed submission from Jay T. Allen, a board certified medical doctor currently living in Maine. He…
Following her veto last week of LD 398 – “An Act to Make Agricultural Workers and Other Related Workers Employees…
The Office of the Maine Attorney General announced Wednesday that they have charged a deputy superintendent of two state correctional…
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In his first visit to Maine as president, Joe Biden is slated to visit the state Friday as part of…
State and federal initiatives to make home heating and cooling more environmentally friendly appear to be at odds with recent…
Activists targeting Federalist Society co-chairman Leonard Leo, including one dressed up in an elaborate ‘angry uterus’ costume, gathered again on…
Liberal groups and some lawmakers in Maine are upset with Gov. Janet Mills after she vetoed a bill that would…
The following article is republished with permission from NH Journal, an Inside Sources publication. To read more from the NH…
Avangrid, the parent company of Central Maine Power, agreed this month to pay $48 million to terminate a power purchase…
During the nearly four-hour Cape Elizabeth Town Council meeting on Monday, twenty residents attended to speak out in support of…
The City of Portland is teaming up with the Quality Housing Coalition (QHC) and the Greater Portland Council of Governments…
U.S. Representative for Maine’s 2nd congressional district Jared Golden was the only House Democrat to vote in favor of reinstating…
Portland City Manager Danielle West presented new recommendations on Monday that the Portland Police will be taking up in response…
In the coming months, Christmas Tree Shops expects to close all of their 70-plus locations nationwide. As a result of…
A Monday evening school board meeting for Maine School Administrative District 51 (MSAD #51) adjourned after a parent raised concerns…
Al Diamon, a Maine columnist who has had his weekly column “Politics & Other Mistakes” published in numerous news outlets…
Four of Maine’s largest companies are no longer listed as financial sponsors of Equality Maine, a non-profit that has advocated…
The Mayor of Waterville has drawn statewide attention for twerking on TikTok, but his penchant for posting spicy content on…
On Wednesday, Portland officials held a second closed-door meeting to discuss their frustrations after spending three months in the Portland…
The Legislature’s Budget Committee has approved a measure that would give both legislators and the governor a substantial raise beginning…
Portland Mayor Kate Snyder joined WGAN Morning News Host and CEO of the Maine Policy Institute Matt Gagnon Thursday to…
Gov. Janet Mills (D) signed LD 535 into law Tuesday, which means minors aged 16 and 17 can receive hormone…
Republican members of the Legislature’s Appropriations Committee looked on, with some of them even clapping, as Gov. Janet Mills signed…
Maine’s Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) recommended lifting the statewide mandate that healthcare workers receive injections related to…
Signs reading “No Yard South” have appeared in lawns across South Portland in recent months. But what exactly is Yard…
On Friday Gov. Janet Mills and Maine’s Congressional Delegation made a joint announcement that President Joe Biden has approved the…
Christmas Tree Shops, a Massachusetts-based retailer, is expected to close all of its 70-plus locations in the near future unless…
On Wednesday, July 5 at around 10:30 p.m., Portland Police responded to reports of a large group setting off fireworks…
Solar power diehards in the Democratic Party have won their fight to protect a program that subsidizes large solar facilities…
The Town of Cape Elizabeth is pursuing legal action against Lumbery – a business located in the center of town…
Gov. Janet Mills (D-ME) has successfully vetoed LD 2004, the tribal sovereignty bill that would allow the Wabanaki Nations a…
The Mount Desert Island Hospital in Bar Harbor has notified 24,180 patients that their private patient records may have been…
The Daily Caller News Foundation – Harold Hutchison on July 5, 2023 Republican Attorney General Andrew Bailey of Missouri said that…
A community of conservative Christians in Maine has been frustrated by the State’s car insurance mandate. It’s become such a…
The president of Unity College has responded to a proposal by Portland city officials to house asylum seeking migrants at…
After the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action in a ruling Thursday, and on Friday declared President Biden’s student loan…
One of the last remaining items of business at the State House this summer is what — if anything –…