Democratic Gov. Janet Mills delivered an anticipated veto of Democratic House Speaker Rachel Talbot Ross’ tribal sovereignty bill Friday morning.…
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On Thursday City Councilor Mark Dion announced his bid to become Portland’s next Mayor. Portland’s current Mayor Kate Snyder said…
Democratic Gov. Janet Mills endorsed the largest state tax increase on Maine workers in more than two decades Thursday with…
Maine Wire Editor-in-Chief Steve Robinson joined WVOM’s George Hale and Ric Tyler Thursday morning to discuss the migrant protest on…
At 3:45 in the morning on Wednesday, the Appropriations Committee voted nearly unanimously to approve a spending package totaling approximately…
Portland City officials held a press briefing inside of the Portland Exposition Building after a protest Wednesday morning by migrants…
During a special public meeting Tuesday, the South Portland City Council approved an agreement to extend the temporary transitional housing…
Roughly 100 migrants protested outside of the Portland Exposition Building Wednesday morning, briefly blocking traffic along a busy Park Ave,…
The Maine Legislature is set to continue debate over LD 168, a bill that would require a “federally licensed firearms…
Mainers must be 21-years-old to buy tobacco products and at least 18-years-old to use a tanning salon. But if Gov.…
Maine’s State Senate on Tuesday blocked a proposed amendment that would have put a four-year moratorium on the trafficking of…
A bill motivated by the discovery of a $1.5 billion lithium deposit in Newry, Maine, thought to be the world’s…
Seventy-nine-year-old U.S. Sen. Angus King, who is not enrolled in a party but who caucuses with Democrats, said Tuesday he…
Gov. Janet Mills dealt labor unions a major defeat Tuesday when she vetoed an offshore wind port construction bill that…
Democratic lawmakers voted Friday to kill a bill that would have prohibited public school employees from addressing students by alternative…
On Monday Gov. Janet Mills signed a bill into law that will partially decriminalize prostitution in Maine. The law, LD…
On Monday Maine’s House of Representatives passed a bill sponsored by House Speaker Rachel Talbot Ross (D-Portland) that would extend…
The Legislature passed a resolution Friday directing the Governor’s Office to establish a working group tasked with studying the ability…
Party-line votes in both the House and Senate earlier this week killed a bill that would have required Maine voters…
The Legislature voted unanimously this week to ban TikTok from all electronic devices owned or controlled by the state government.…
After Democrats in Maine’s House of Representatives narrowly passed Governor Janet Mills’ controversial late-term abortion bill in the early hours…
The Maine House of Representatives voted Thursday night to approve Democratic Gov. Janet Mills’ plan to eliminate restrictions on late-term…
During her testimony Thursday in opposition to Gov. Janet Mills’ late-term abortion bill, LD 1619, a top Republican alleged that…
The young couple gunned down Monday night in Westbrook had recently relocated to Maine from Texas with their two young…
Following the retirement announcement of current Portland Police Department Interim Chief F. Heath Gorham, the city stated Thursday that Interim…
A new policy directive from Maine Information Technology (MaineIT) has put a six-month moratorium on the adoption and use of…
Maine’s Republican Senators on Wednesday defended their opposition to an effort by Democratic lawmakers to create a new one percent…
The Senate voted Tuesday to require MaineCare reimbursement for “medically necessary treatment for or related to gender dysphoria,” following a…
One-hundred members of the House of Representatives voted Wednesday in favor of House Speaker Rachel Talbot Ross’s (D-Portland) tribal sovereignty…
Lawmakers voted Wednesday to kill a bill that would have facilitated the installation of “safe haven baby boxes,” referred to…
The Senate resoundingly rejected last week a bill that would have raised vehicle inspection costs and given the Maine State…
American 13-year-olds have posted another decline in math and reading testing, according to a Wednesday release of data from the…
Late last week, the Senate defeated a bill that would have abolished Maine’s state income tax and established a zero-based…
An aspiring rap artist from South Portland was arrested Monday night after allegedly murdering two Westbrook residents in front of…
The Senate voted Tuesday along party lines to reject a bill that would have restricted the use of private donations…
A federal court of appeals released an opinion Friday siding with the Maine Lobstermen’s Association in their lawsuit against the…
Municipalities across the state were granted a reprieve last week when LD 1706 was signed into law, extending the deadline…
Democrats in the House of Representatives on Friday rejected a floor amendment that would have required MaineCare, Maine’s Medicaid program,…
Portland City Councilor At-Large Pious Ali went live on Facebook outside Portland City Hall on Election Day, and may have…
Former Democratic Rep. Clinton Collamore said Thursday that “someone in the Democratic Party” urged him to remain silent on his…
Maine’s Republican lawmakers scored a victory on Thursday by rejecting a bill that would have added a three-day waiting period…
On Thursday the Maine Legislature’s Judiciary Committee held a follow-up work session on House Speaker Rachel Talbot Ross’ (D-Portland) bill,…
A Twitter thread published Thursday by Daily Wire political commentator Matt Walsh showed internal documents from Fox News revealing the…
Candidates for state office who choose to seek taxpayer funding for their campaigns will not be required to disclose on…
The State Legislature has rejected a bill that would have expanded school choice in Maine by creating an Empowerment Scholarship…
St. Dominic Academy in Auburn filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the Mills Administration and the Maine Human Rights Commission alleging…
Whether Maine will hike the statewide hourly minimum wage to $15.00 per hour is in Gov. Janet Mills’ hands after…
After a settlement reached on Monday between the operator of South Portland’s Howard Johnson hotel and around 60 migrant families,…
Portland’s downtown Congress Street Starbucks is not festooned with Pride decorations inside or outside the store two weeks into Pride…
Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows (D) is going head-to-head with No Labels, the political third party that has pledged…
Last night, the Maine House of Representatives was up late debating whether to approve a bill that would add more…
Maine’s House of Representatives approved a bill (83-56) that will increase security arrangements at the State House complex just moments…
The Maine House on Wednesday rejected a bill (76-71) that would have prohibited cities and towns in the state from…
The Maine Public Utilities Commission (MPUC) on Tuesday voted to approve electricity rate increases associated with a program that hikes…
Maine Republicans and conservative candidates posted victories last night in a State House special election and a handful local elections.…
State lawmakers are considering a proposal to let cities and towns create areas where narcotic users can consume the illegal…
As of Tuesday, House Speaker Rachel Talbot Ross (D-Portland) has not responded to three requests for comment on why she…
The Maine House of Representatives has passed a bill that will force hospitals to comply with federal price transparency requirements.…
On Monday evening the Portland City Council voted to approve a contract to build a new 180-bed shelter targeted towards…
In an effort to reduce the stigma associated with committing crimes and going to jail, Maine House of Representatives approved…
Democratic lawmakers on Monday rejected a proposal from Rep. John Andrews (R-Paris) that would have allowed the boards of government-run…
Watch a fiery back-and-forth between Laurie Osher and Billy Bob Faulkingham An Orono Democrat on Monday compared members of the…
Amid a debate over whether Maine’s schools should adopt a rating system for sexually explicit books, Rep. Charles Skold (D-Portland)…
Portland High School was temporarily locked down last week after a brawl between students that some say included a knife,…
A Maine Transgender Network, Inc. steering committee member resigned from a voluntary position with the organization in May after writing…
Maine had the third highest percentage of out-of-state campaign contributions during the 2022 election cycle at 67.82 percent, according to…
Unity residents who signed a petition opposing the town’s embrace of “Pride Month” in May have found themselves targeted by…
In the latest round of legal filings related to Newcastle mom Amber Lavigne’s lawsuit against the Great Salt Bay Community…
On Monday afternoon the Portland City Council will hold a meeting to take public comment and then vote on a…
Democratic lawmakers attempted to pass off a definition of “racial profiling” from the left-wing ACLU of Maine as though it…
The Maine Board of Licensure in Social Work held a disciplinary hearing Friday for a conditionally licensed public school social worker who…
The Maine State Legislature voted this week to kill LD 1636, “An Act to Ensure the Right to Work Without…
After the Judiciary Committee gave Gov. Jant Mills’ late-term abortion bill the stamp of approval Friday, Maine Wire Editor-in-Chief Steve…
Carroll Conley, Executive Director of the Christian Civic League of Maine, joins Maine Wire Editor-in-Chief for a podcast session on…
Maine Wire Editor-in-Chief Steve Robinson sat down for a podcast with Christian Civic League of Maine Executive Director Carroll Conley…
The Democratic co-chairs of the Judiciary Committee have scheduled a work session on LD 1619, Gov. Janet Mills late-term abortion…
Portland leaders delayed a vote on the city’s proposed budget Monday night, in order to wait and see if the…
Portland residents will have the opportunity to vote Tuesday on a referendum, Question A, that would amend the city’s current…
I love living in Portland, but I’m concerned with how much influence self-avowed socialists have over its future. The rent…
Democratic lawmakers have yet to move forward with Gov. Janet Mills’ signature second-term bill to eliminate all restrictions on late-term…
In a 77-63 vote that fell mostly along party lines, the House of Representatives moved Tuesday to kill a bill…
Maine has the 10th lowest performing state economy in the U.S., standing in 42nd place out of the 50 states…
Sen. Joe Baldacci (D-Penobscot) offered searing criticism of Gov. Janet Mills during May 23 committee hearings, alleging that the governor…
An independent report released Friday afternoon regarding Maine Attorney General (AG) Aaron Frey’s relationship with a subordinate employee found no…
Democratic State Rep. Sally Cluchey (D-Bowdoinham) advocated for an amendment that would compel Maine’s hunters to give coyotes a “respectful…
Republican lawmakers who support transparency in public schools are “intellectually stifling right wing book banners and anti-LGBT zealot bigots,” according…
Central Maine Power, Hannaford, and LL Bean are just three of the well-known Maine brands that are supporting late-term abortion…
Senate Minority Leader Trey Stewart joins Maine Wire Editor-in-Chief Steve Robinson for a conversation about Maine’s net energy billing scheme,…
With the legislature set to adjourn by the end of the month, one of the last remaining pieces of business…
On Tuesday a group of protestors lined the sidewalk outside the Maine State House in Augusta demanding justice for a…
A competitive shooting event this Saturday and Sunday at the Hampden Rifle and Pistol Club is expected to raise more…
Legislative Republicans in Maine offered an amendment this week to LD 1347 in the hope of finding a palatable compromise…
What if you could power your home or business with sunshine and save money on your electricity bill? That’s the…
The Maine Law Enforcement Officer’s Memorial in Augusta was vandalized over Memorial Day weekend, according to a Monday statement from…
Falmouth Elementary School is celebrating “pride month” by raising money for nonprofits that support Democratic Party policies in Augusta, including…
Maine school officials in a public school district used their government email accounts and school resources to advocate against LD…
On Thursday the Maine Legislature’s Committee on Veterans and Legal Affairs voted “ought to pass” on LD 1966, a bill…
Health care workers who say Maine Gov. Janet Mills’ COVID-19 vaccine mandate violated their First Amendment rights scored a victory…
The Maine Community College System has been intentionally recruiting noncitizens to take advantage Gov. Janet Mills’ “free community college” program,…
Maine’s taxpayer-funded community colleges are advertising free college scholarships for recent graduates, including non-citizens and illegal aliens. “FREE COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP,”…