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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 –…
Democratic Gov. Janet Mills delivered an anticipated veto of Democratic House Speaker Rachel Talbot Ross’ tribal sovereignty bill Friday morning.…
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…