LEWISTON, Maine — The Lewiston City Council voted 6–1 to open an investigation into the residency qualifications of newly sworn-in…
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Lawmakers in Augusta are set to discuss a bill Tuesday that aims to prohibit “housing discrimination” based on a person’s…
BANGOR, Maine — An Ecuadorian national who had previously been removed from the United States in 2011 and 2016 was…
Starting this month, New Hampshire will be ending its practice of requiring annual vehicle safety inspections, leaving Maine as just…
By Nicole Silverio of the Daily Caller News Foundation Nick Shirley, the viral YouTuber who exposed the fraud happening at…
ST. PAUL, Minnesota – Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) is stepping aside from a run for a historic third term after publicly…
AUGUSTA, Maine — As Maine lawmakers reconvene for the second year of the 132nd Legislature, unfinished bills and budget negotiations…
AUGUSTA, Maine – Republican gubernatorial candidate Jonathan Bush is seizing early momentum in Maine’s open 2026 governor’s race, with his…
BRUNSWICK, Maine — A 47-year-old Woolwich man was killed Friday night after his vehicle left the roadway on a Brunswick…
AUGUSTA, Maine — After weeks of silence on a growing federal investigation unfolding in her own backyard, Gov. Janet Mills…
Gov. Janet Mills stepped back into the public eye as two Democrats seeking to challenge Republican U.S. Sen. Susan Collins…
Things are getting interesting in Lewiston, and fast. The Maine Wire was physically present at Gateway Community Services when approximately 15 agents from the U.S.…
MAR – A – LAGO, Florida – President Donald J. Trump said early Saturday morning that the United States had…
The walls are closing in on the Gateway Communities scandal, and Governor Janet Mills remains silent. What started as questions…
A three-alarm fire that tore through Portland’s working waterfront last Friday has left fishermen and fishing-related businesses facing steep losses,…
A Maine mom has now asked the United States Supreme Court to consider her case against a Damariscotta school in…
Beginning on New Year’s Day, Maine’s minimum wage increased to $15.10 per hour. Following the enactment of a bill signed…
As the clock struck midnight on January 1, New York City officially entered a new political era. Zohran Mamdani was…
A slate of significant immigration policy changes took effect across the United States as the new year begins, marking another…
MEXICO, Maine — Law enforcement officials in Oxford County are searching for a woman who was reported missing after abruptly…
President Donald Trump is escalating pressure on Minnesota officials after federal investigators uncovered what his administration says could amount to…
Maine finished 41st in the nation for total sales and gross receipts tax revenue in 2024, according to a new…
LEWISTON, Maine – Iman Osman is set to be sworn in as a Lewiston city councilor at 6:00 P.M. on…
President Donald Trump sharply escalated tensions with Iran on Friday, issuing a blunt warning to the country’s leadership as protests…
Gov. Janet Mills has spent months on the campaign trail boasting that she “stood up to” President Donald Trump, repeatedly…
It was a tragedy piled on a tragedy is how one Lincoln County resident described the December 27 homicide of…
As working families in Maine and Massachusetts get crushed by higher taxes, higher rents, and higher grocery bills, two governors…
The familiar Maine department store Renys has now broken even more hearts, going out of business a day earlier than…
As 2025 winds down, one-word towers above the rest in American public life: fraud. Not inflation. Not immigration. Not even…
The recent heist of 40,000 oysters from a farm in Falmouth is now believed to be the first of a…
Hundreds of participants are set to ring in the New Year by charging into the Atlantic Ocean in front of…
Federal agents visited a property in Lewiston on Tuesday that has been the source of repeated reports of fraud and…
Tatiana Schlossberg, the granddaughter of former President John F. Kennedy, passed away at the age of 35 on Tuesday from…
A rollover crash in Buxton on Monday injured four people, including one person who was ejected from the vehicle, according…
Democratic state Rep. Deqa Dhalac (South Portland) is facing intensifying scrutiny as a widening state and federal investigation into alleged…
The mother of a 1-year-old twin found dead Sunday in Milford says she is “tired of people making assumptions” about…
It has been more than four months since Maine courts threw a shroud of secrecy over the proceedings in the…
Maine Republicans intensified their attack Tuesday over alleged MaineCare fraud tied to Gateway Community Services, warning that the case exposes…
Dozens of federal agents working with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security probed multiple locations in Lewiston on Tuesday that…
Iran declared the Royal Canadian Navy a “terrorist organization” Tuesday in retaliation for Canada giving the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps…
Police are searching for the driver of a silver SUV who struck a pedestrian in a marked crosswalk Sunday evening…
A Bangor organization raising money for the family of a twin girl who died prematurely is either well-intentioned or jumping…
Federal agents are now going door to door at businesses across Minnesota as part of a sweeping fraud crackdown, a…
Fox News host Bret Baier put Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the spot Monday, confronting him with questions about corruption…
President Donald Trump said Monday that the United States “hit” a dock in Venezuela where drugs were allegedly being loaded…
Gov. Janet Mills (D), a candidate for the U.S. Senate, is trumpeting a $190 million federal health care award for…
President Donald Trump warned Monday that Hamas must disarm within a “very short period of time” under the terms of…
U.S. Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) announced Monday that Maine will receive $190 million in first-year funding through the Rural Health…
Maine Republican legislative leaders will hold a press conference Tuesday to discuss allegations of MaineCare fraud involving Gateway Community Services,…
The Togus Veterans Administration Medical Center is preparing to begin accepting veterans transported by ambulance starting January 1, 2026, after…
Maine marked a year of notable losses in 2025, as prominent figures from politics, business, athletics, and the arts passed…
A condemned building tied to a federal drug bust is continuing to appear on paper as a business address and…
Maine residents will see higher taxes and fees across multiple everyday purchases starting January 1, 2026, as a slate of…
The dark horse in Maine’s Democrat U.S. Senate primary went full bore on Christmas for his last, big end-of-year money…
After passing major tax cuts earlier this year, Republicans are laying out a broader affordability agenda they hope will start…
A Corinth man is facing a murder charge following a fatal shooting Saturday morning at a Main Street residence. According…
YouTuber Nick Shirley posted video Friday showing multiple purported Somali-run day care centers in Minnesota, including one which reportedly received…
A Christmas Day house fire in Brunswick was quickly brought under control Thursday afternoon, with investigators pointing to an electrical…
Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows is again under fire as the League of Women Voters of Maine steps in…
As Maine continues to grapple with fallout from the Gateway Communities scandal and other nonprofit controversies, Gov. Janet Mills has…
Maine State Police are investigating the death of a one-year-old child who was found unresponsive Sunday morning at a residence…
“To the person who took my pocketbook backpack from Hannaford in Hampden would you be so kind to return it?”…
The Maine State Fire Marshal’s Office, working alongside the Portland Fire Department, is continuing its investigation into a Friday evening…
The Russian Space Agency has warned international and military flights commonly flying over, into and out of Bangor to beware…
The Maine Mariners have canceled their scheduled home games this weekend after a player strike over a stalled collective bargaining…
PORTLAND, Maine — Crews battled a large fire Friday evening on Commercial Street along Portland’s working waterfront, prompting a third-alarm…
Let’s be clear: the collapse of Gateway Communities did not come out of nowhere.It happened on Janet Mills’ watch, after…
President Donald J. Trump announced late Tuesday that the United States launched a “powerful and deadly” military strike against Islamic State terrorists operating in…
Fire investigators are working to determine the cause of a residential fire that tore through a home on Canaan Road…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Friday that he will meet with U.S. President Donald Trump in Florida over the weekend to discuss security guarantees…
The Maine State Police have confirmed a murder-suicide following the discovery of two deceased adults at a Tremont residence earlier…
Maine politics in 2025 were defined by confrontation, controversy, and growing public distrust, as a high-stakes U.S. Senate race, mass…
Democratic Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan praised Somali migrants in the state during a visit to a market in a…
Maine leads the nation in one important category, a national news network recently suggested: dynastic politics. Looking ahead to the…
More than two years after the deadliest mass shooting in Maine history, victims and their families say they are still…
A widening investigation by the U.S. House Oversight and Accountability Committee into alleged Medicaid fraud has placed new scrutiny on…
After its Christmas break concludes, Congress is set to return in January with a host of unfinished business that could…
A sweeping crime crackdown launched by the Trump administration, including the controversial deployment of National Guard troops in the nation’s…
A new statewide economic analysis released this month paints a stark picture of prosperity split sharply between the greater Portland…
Former prosecutor and well-known TV crime fighter Nancy Grace is spotlighting a suspiciously-missing Maine girl. On her Christmas-eve show, “Crime…
Influenza cases are surging across Maine far earlier and harder than health officials typically see, with new data showing infections…
The White House has ordered U.S. military forces to focus almost exclusively on enforcing a so-called “quarantine” of Venezuelan oil…
As Gov. Janet Mills’ (D-Maine) administration has blown millions on no-bid contracts, and allegations of Medicaid fraud have touched upon…
SCARBOROUGH, Maine — Scarborough firefighters were called to the scene of a serious motor vehicle crash Friday afternoon that required…
For years, Maine’s legacy media landscape operated with a familiar hierarchy: big newspapers and TV stations decided what mattered, and…
LEWISTON, Maine — Iman Osman, a Lewiston city councilor-elect and current school committee member, is heading toward a collision with…
State fire investigators have arrested two men in connection with a house fire in Augusta that authorities say was intentionally…
Bipartisan legislation authored by U.S. Sen. Susan Collins (R) and Sen. Mark Warner (D) aimed at strengthening the security of…
The federal government will resume wage garnishment for student loan borrowers in default beginning in early 2026, ending a pandemic-era…
Longtime midcoast Maine summer visitors Connie Chung and Maury Povich nearly got into it in a verbal battle over a…
A federal judge declared a mistrial Monday in the corruption case against a former top aide to Democratic New York…
Governor Janet Mills has ordered all State of Maine government offices closed Wednesday, December 24, as an overnight storm system…
Maine’s Department of Health and Human Services has suspended MaineCare payments to Gateway Community Services after a newly completed state…
Amid the Mills Administration’s unchecked spending, including thousands of pages and billions of dollars on no-bid contracts, it’s also expending…
A powerful congressional committee is demanding federal financial records tied to a Maine nonprofit that has come under scrutiny following…
Former Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) announced he has been diagnosed with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer. The two-term ex-senator, 53, wrote…
The U.S. Border Patrol Houlton Sector arrested an Ecuadorian illegal immigrant in Rangeley early this month with a criminal history…
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) banned the sale of new models of foreign-made drones this week, citing national security concerns…
The Maine State Police are gathering information after local police discovered two dead adults in Tremont. [RELATED: Maine State Police…
Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul released the latest edition of his annual “Festivus” report Tuesday detailing over $1 trillion in…