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Facts are stubborn things, as John Adams said. No John Adams they, Portland Press Herald editors are now embarking on…
Both chambers of Maine’s legislature passed a bill on Tuesday banning “doxing” minors that could be applied in future instances…
An juvenile suspect who reportedly attempted to enter the graduation for Oceanside High School in Rockland while intoxicated has been…
Two law enforcement sources, who spoke with the Maine Wire on the condition of anonymity as they were not authorized…
Maine lawmakers have voted to expand the use of ranked choice voting to gubernatorial elections, as well as races for…
A Puerto Rican man on Tuesday was sentenced to nearly five years in prison for trafficking $40,000 worth of fentanyl…
Nearly two-thirds — an estimated 61 percent — of the South Portland residents who participated in Tuesday’s election voted to…
Businessman Owen McCarthy, 37, threw his hat into the widening ring for Maine governor on Wednesday, announcing the launch of…
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) suffered a legal loss on Tuesday when a federal judge denied his request for an immediate…
Tensions are escalating in the Maine House of Representatives as minority Republicans push back against majority Democrats’ threats of extended…
A federal judge on Monday postponed the habeas hearing for the Congolese man who has been held in U.S. Immigration…
Both chambers of the Maine Legislature reversed course on a controversial bill this week, ending an effort from Rep. Grayson…
While a key committee in Augusta moved legislation to the floor that would make it more difficult for police in…
As rioters overrun the streets of Los Angeles, California, waving foreign flags while burning cars and assaulting federal officers, Gov.…
The Oxford County Sheriff’s Office announced on Tuesday that three suspects have been arrested in connection to a burglary at…
The United States Supreme Court has unanimously ruled that so-called “reverse discrimination” must be treated the same as any other…
President Donald Trump (R) has asked the United States Supreme Court to halt enforcement of an order issued by a…
The Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office is conducting an ongoing investigation into a Monday shooting in Glenburn that left two injured.…
A bid by a land trust to broker a deal between a paper company and the federal government is on…
A federal judge has temporarily blocked enforcement of President Donald Trump’s (R) executive order barring foreign students from entering the…
Maine School Administrative District (MSAD) 11 is poised to approve or deny an extremely controversial school-based medical clinic on Thursday,…
Former director of the Governor’s Office of Policy Innovation and the Future (GOPIF) and daughter of First District Congresswoman Chellie…
Jon Fetherston, the whistleblower who exposed the heinous crimes committed by illegal immigrants in Massachusetts’ “Healy Hotel” shelters, requested on…
A Rockland woman has been charged with her second Operating Under the Influence (OUI) offense after leading police on a…
Lawmakers have unanimously agreed to prevent medical debt from being factored into Mainers’ credit scores. Although State Law currently has…
The Satanic Temple’s abortion branch, TST Health, announced the creation of a new telehealth abortion provider serving Maine, deliberately set…
The political fallout stemming from the weekend revelation that the office of Secretary of State Shenna Bellows (D-Hallowell) has recalled…
Scarborough public school officials sent out a letter to the community this week warning of potential threats from Nihilistic Violent…
As the saying goes “you can take the boy out of the country but you can’t take the country out…
He who pays the piper calls the tune, the old saying goes. Looking closely at the most recent dust-up under…
In Augusta these days, keeping up with the latest legislative head-scratchers can be a full-time job. But one proposal stands…
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South Portland residents are set to vote on a proposed $73 million school budget next Tuesday amidst concerns over public…
Maine’s largest paper buried the lead in announcing the retirement of a top veteran editor whose exit comes in the…
Maine’s House and Senate have been going back and forth for the past couple of weeks over whether or not…
House lawmakers engaged in a lengthy and impassioned debate Thursday morning over a bill requiring a photo ID to cast…
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Long Creek Youth Development Center in South Portland, Maine’s only juvenile correctional facility, will be spending nearly $30,000 to purchase…
The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Maine CDC) on Friday issued a press release celebrating a record high…
The Maine State Legislature has unanimously approved a bill increasing the number of children for whom childcare providers may be…
A Guatemalan national was sentenced in a Maine federal court on Wednesday for illegal reentry into the U.S. after a…
The internet has blown up with speculators discussing how two Mount Katahdin hikers died amid obvious warning signs to abandon…
President Donald Trump (R) invoked federal law to block foreign students from entering the country to study at Harvard University…
The Democrats of the Kennebunks and Arundel (DKA) is looking to form a “Rapid Response Team” in case of U.S.…
An Egyptian national with alleged ties to a terrorist organization was arrested by U.S. Border Patrol (USBP) agents in Pittsfield…
Advocates of gun control measures often speak of a “cooling off period” — usually in reference to a delay on…
The Maine House passed a net neutrality bill Wednesday with bipartisan support, as three Republican lawmakers crossed party lines to…
The Maine State Legislature’s Judiciary Committee came to three different recommendations on Wednesday to three bills prescribing how state and…
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published a list of jurisdictions with “sanctuary” policies that obstruct immigration enforcement late…
Long-time U.S. House Speaker Tip O’Neill famously said “all politics is local,” and he could just have easily been talking…
A Harpswell Democrat’s bill to levy an additional four percent tax on income earned over $1 million in order to…
The Maine State Police on Wednesday released the identity of a woman found dead at a home in Lewiston earlier…
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After rejecting a number of bills aimed at repealing or amending Maine’s new Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML) Program…
A Portland homeless man was arrested Wednesday morning for allegedly stabbing another homeless man in the city’s downtown area. Portland…
The Maine Legislature’s Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee met Wednesday afternoon to finalize its recommendations on three hotly-debated firearm-related…
U.S. Border Patrol (USBP) in Maine is reporting a recent spike in apprehensions, including the removal of 42 illegal aliens…
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The FBI arrested two Chinese citizens, Yunqing Jian, 33, and Zunyong Liu, 34, on Tuesday after they were caught allegedly…
A left-leaning politician who said South Korea should not be as “antagonizing” toward communist U.S. adversaries has been elected as…
President Donald Trump issued a proclamation celebrating persecuted Christians on June 1, the start of Pride Month, marking a significant…
The Maine Department of Education (DOE) issued a no-bid contract this week spending nearly $30,000 on English language classes for…
One Maine GOP lawmaker has sought to establish a new special committee tasked with reviewing routine technical rule-making by state…
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), with the help of multiple federal agencies, arrested nearly 1,500 illegal aliens during the…
The Maine House of Representatives considered an additional series of bills during Monday’s session pertaining to the state’s new Paid…
A Portland sex offender, Steven Ricci, 61, is set to be released at the end of June despite what the…
Maine’s House of Representatives narrowly voted to decriminalize the possession of one ounce or less of psilocybin for persons 21…
A 30-year-old Lewiston man was arrested on Monday after an investigation showed that he allegedly used a social media account…
The Maine House narrowly passed a bill on Monday that will make life and work more difficult for Mainers employed…
The Opportunity Alliance, a homeless and substance abuse service provider based in South Portland, has agreed to a nearly $350,000…
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Early frontrunners in the 2026 Maine gubernatorial race suggest the field is still just beginning to develop on both the…
It may be a sign of the times that both chambers of the Maine Legislature passed a bill on Monday…
Tensions flared in the Maine House chamber Monday night as Republican lawmakers staged a walkout in protest over extended legislative…
Flight Deck Brewing in Brunswick is under investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Wage and Hour Division for…
House lawmakers in Augusta rejected two bills during Monday’s session taking aim at Maine’s new Paid Family and Medical Leave…
Who’s afraid of a public hearing? Maine legislative Republicans held a press conference on Monday to call out a move…
An effort to make the process of Maine public school students transferring from one district to another more transparent was…
Taking your car in every year for its inspection sticker is a familiar ordeal to all Maine drivers, and a…
Maine legislators have killed a bill that would have abolished the state’s income tax and required agencies to regularly engage…
Ogunquit police officers will be wearing new “LGBTQ+ pride patches” throughout June for “Pride Month,” which is typically celebrated through…
Portland Police last week apprehended a fugitive wanted by federal law enforcement after officers chased him down and found him…
The Maine Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) sent 42 illegal immigrants out of state for further deportation proceedings on a…
South Portland’s People’s Inclusive Welding (PIW) held a rally with other groups on Friday to protest the arrest of two…
Lawmakers in Maine’s House of Representatives voted unanimously on Monday to pass “An Act to Adopt Eastern Daylight Time Year-round…
The Maine School Administrative District (MSAD) 52 school board voted Thursday night to send a potential change to its transgender…
An Egyptian man using a makeshift flamethrower and incendiary devices attacked a peaceful event on Boulder, Colorado’s Pearl Street pedestrian…
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On Monday, the Maine House of Representatives will meet for a legislative session to tackle a whopping 45 divided reports…
A proposal by a Knox County Democrat legislator for a “regional living wage” – supposedly to help people afford housing…
Maine House Republicans have called upon Democratic lawmakers to produce their proposed budget documents, including the details of their plan…
A Linneus man on Tuesday became the 20th person to be sentenced for his role in a northern Maine drug…
Maine’s attempt to establish a so-called student wage has been rejected along nearly partisan lines in the State Legislature. Under…
Maine lawmakers have officially shot down a proposed constitutional amendment that would have effectively prevented future Legislatures from engaging the…
Democratic lawmakers on the Maine Legislature’s Judiciary Committee on Friday afternoon chose to carry over two bills that would abolish…
The Heritage Foundation has filed a lawsuit against Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) for allegedly violating the state’s Freedom of…
A joint operation by the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency (MDEA) and the Washington County Sheriff’s Office on Thursday at two…
U.S. Border Patrol (USBP) agents from Maine’s Rangeley Station last week arrested a Salvadoran illegal alien gang member wanted by…
