A Missouri man accused of illegally crossing the U.S.-Canada border in Hodgdon, Maine, in an attempt to smuggle his wife…
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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…
The Communist Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), the Maine Democratic Socialists of America (MDSA), the Maine People’s Alliance (MPA),…
The sole study purporting to show that a massive $4.9 billion Aroostook County wind power project will benefit Maine ratepayers…
House lawmakers in Washington D.C. voted 222-190 in favor of a bill blocking states from attempting to eliminate the sale…
Portland’s now-largest homeless encampment at the Marginal Way Park and Ride has approximately doubled in size since August, with a…
When the 170-turbine 1,000 megawatt King Pine Wind Farm in Aroostook County becomes operational near the end of the decade,…
In advance of Hurricane Lee’s projected landfall Friday evening, Maine Gov. Janet Mills declared a State of Emergency Thursday and…
An excerpt of a new biography of Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) published in The Atlantic Wednesday tells the story of…
The National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) unveiled the names of over 16,000 semifinalists in the 69th annual National Merit Scholarship…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills announced Wednesday that her administration has awarded $3.7 million in grant funding to projects that will…
Florida Governor and current second-place 2024 Republican presidential primary candidate Ron DeSantis announced the formation of his campaign’s Maine leadership…
The State Legislature’s payments for travel and lodging to Maine Senate President Troy Jackson (D-Allagash) surged drastically after he and…
U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree’s personal wealth has swelled over her decade in a half as a Member of Congress, according…
The Maine Drug Enforcement Agency (MDEA) announced Tuesday the arrest of a South Portland man on drug trafficking charges that…
Despite some economists’ predictions that inflation in the U.S. economy had been tamed, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) announced…
It has been confirmed that the former Ramada Inn in Lewiston will not become a “transitional housing” facility for those…
South Portland Police officers were dispatched to the Pine Haven Motel on Main St. in the early hours of Tuesday…
The Department of Administrative and Financial Services (DAFS) announced Monday that it has filed a request for mediation to help…
The Second Baptist Church in Palermo was vandalized Saturday night with pro-abortion slogans and red paint. The vandals painted “abortion…
Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey released a report on his office’s investigation into the 2021 death of a man who…
In an interview with Maine’s taxpayer-funded radio network Thursday, Gov. Janet Mills denied a suggestion from a listener that her…
The Falmouth-based mortgage broker accused of abetting an apparent mortgage fraud by Senate President Troy Jackson (D-Aroostook) denied any wrongdoing…
Free speech may not be so free on college campuses in Maine, according to a recent ranking done by College…
New York City Mayor Eric Adams declared in a town hall event Wednesday evening that the city’s migrant crisis “will…
Gov. Janet Mills commented briefly Thursday on the growing scandal that has surrounded Senate President Troy Jackson after an investigative…
On Maine’s taxpayer-funded Maine Calling radio program Thursday, Maine Gov. Janet Mills told host Jennifer Rooks that she has not…
The Maine State Police issued a statement Wednesday slamming the Bangor Daily News for their article covering the death in…
The subject of property taxes has become increasingly prevalent in recent weeks, with discussions ranging from the repeal of the…
Portland Director of Health and Human Services Kristen Dow and Fire Chief Keith Gautreau joined the City Council during its…
Maine Senate President Troy Jackson (D-Allagash) claimed Thursday morning that he never read the Federal Housing Authority (FHA)-backed loan agreement…
Many cities in Maine are facing dueling crises at the moment that are both drawing on largely the same pool…
Maine State Rep. John Andrews (R-Paris) filed an official written complaint Wednesday with Maine’s Attorney General’s Office and Ethics Commission…