An Androscoggin County man has been charged in connection with shooting and killing a cat, police said. Jake Cyr, 34,…
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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…
As the first major snow storm of the season sweeps through Maine, many schools, businesses, and state offices have closed…
Portland has issued a full, overnight street-parking ban, due to the winter snow storm, beginning at 10:00 p.m. Tuesday, December…
The U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is investigating Maine’s provision of Medicaid benefits to illegal aliens. But…
A national, 127-year-old outdoors-life publication says a Jackman woodsman “might be the most patient and persistent hunter on the planet.”…
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) is now making relief available to small businesses and private nonprofit (PNP) organizations in…
The controversy surrounding Ward 5 school committee member Iman Osman’s residency erupted into a full-scale public reckoning Monday night, as…
Eligible Lewiston residents will have the chance to go to the polls on February 24 to participate in a special…
The Trump administration’s sharp escalation of immigration enforcement is creating new uncertainty across Maine’s immigrant and refugee communities, recent reports…
It is now a national news story, even in the liberal media: a massive Somali-linked welfare fraud scandal. This troubling…
It’s taken nearly three decades but the missing historic Curtis Island Lighthouse fog bell has been found – 70 miles…
Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows has signed onto a letter with a handful of her counterparts in blue states…
An 81-year-old man from Kennebunk was seriously injured Tuesday evening when the Ford F-150 he was driving went veering off…
Hard to believe a tiny nut-gathering beast can still disrupt life in the 21st century, even to the point of…
Portland ushered in the holiday season Friday night as crowds filled Monument Square for the city’s annual tree-lighting ceremony. The…
A Harrison man was taken into custody Thursday after leading police on a lengthy high-speed chase that began in Maine…
Portland Mayor Mark Dion is sounding the alarm over the city’s worsening homelessness crisis, warning that the state’s largest city…
South Berwick police arrested three suspects after a reported home invasion and assault early Thursday morning, authorities said. Police responded…
An Army veteran from East Machias has entered the race for Maine’s Second Congressional District, joining the field challenging Democratic…
Just as residents were getting ready to carve the Thanksgiving turkey west of Maine’s largest city, a pair of earthquakes…
Residents of Shady Oaks Mobile Home Park in Arundel are bracing for a sharp rent increase set to take effect…
Rockland-area island hoppers are questioning the state’s decision to give away their oldest – and nostalgic – means of getting…
A Portland man has been charged in connection with robberies at Walmart stores in Biddeford and Falmouth earlier this month,…
A full-blown legal fight has broken out between Nova Scotia’s entrenched lobstermen and indigenous fishermen with close relatives in Maine.…
In a salute to the recent election of Bowdoin College’s most famous socialist alum as mayor of America’s largest city,…
A 27-year-old Warren man suspected of robbing a Scarborough bank was arrested in New Jersey after being involved in a…
A house on Oakland’s Lakeview Drive exploded Thursday afternoon, injuring a man and scattering debris across the neighborhood, officials said.…
Single-family homes in Cumberland County, Maine became significantly more expensive in October, underscoring a growing inventory and persistent demand in…
Greater Portland Metro has won a $4.25 million federal grant to modernize its bus fleet and expand service, the transit…
A suspect nabbed Thursday in a fatal hit-and-run may have been hopped up on drugs, according to state police. Cops…
ICE agents were allegedly spotted on the University of Maine Farmington Campus last week, inspiring taxpayer-funded professors to attempt recording…
As the holiday season arrives, one prevailing headache set to keep hammering Americans is exorbitant electricity costs. Though the Trump…
Scarborough police are searching for a man who robbed the Chase Bank on Hannaford Drive Wednesday afternoon before fleeing in…
A trio of squatters fled from an abandoned home in Augusta on Saturday after it caught fire, authorities say. [RELATED:…
Hancock County Commissioners have approved a four-day workweek for county employees but agreed to keep operating hours unchanged to preserve…
A Calais city worker says he has no plans to resign from the city council despite voters deciding he should.…
A 78-year-old woman breathed a well-deserved sigh of relief after summiting Mount Katahdin in Maine on November 21. Or, maybe,…
The New Hampshire State Police arrested a Massachusetts fugitive wanted by the U.S. Marshals on Tuesday after he allegedly slammed…
The State of Maine has joined a coalition of 20 other states in suing the U.S. Department of Housing and…
A Jay man was sentenced to four years in prison on Tuesday after selling drugs to a confidential informant and…
A former director of the state forestry division who also served on two Maine city councils is being remembered for…