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Republicans on the Maine Legislature’s Education and Cultural Affairs Committee reversed course on a bill last Tuesday that would have…
Radically different testimonies from a politician and a prosecutor before a legislative committee in Augusta this week cast doubt on…
A Medford man who is a lifetime Maine sex offender registrant for multiple convictions of sexual abuse against minors has…
The U.S. Department of Education (DOE) issued its final warning to the Maine Department of Education (MDOE) on Monday for…
A Saco man has been charged with felony theft after allegedly stealing an ATM from a business in Westbrook. “In…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) is shirking her duty to pay property taxes for a Salem Township lot she owns…
A new bill from Rep. Gary Drinkwater (R-Milford) could give Mainers a better sense of how much of their tax…
The Maine Judiciary Committee released updated language Monday morning for a bill aimed at addressing the lack of state-provided attorneys…
Secretary of State — and announced gubernatorial candidate — Shenna Bellows has officially notified the House of Representatives that anti-gun…
Maine lawmakers have introduced a bill that would exempt any money earned by kids from state income tax. This proposal…
A first-term Maine Democratic lawmaker has introduced a bill that would prohibit the state from investing public funds or entering…
Codee Houston, 33, of California, pleaded guilty to drug trafficking charges on Thursday at the U.S. District Court in Bangor,…
A Hartford man was shot and killed by Oxford County Sheriff’s deputies during a domestic assault incident after the man…
A bipartisan group of state lawmakers in Maine have sponsored a bill that would decriminalize the possession of small amounts…
New details have emerged about Ronald Joseph, 43, the illegal Haitian immigrant, who allegedly raped and impregnated his 14-year-old daughter…
The Office of Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services referred the State of Maine to…
Portland Police say they are investigating a Sunday morning stabbing incident on Portland Street that left one man injured. Police…
A state senator apparently forgot to stop, look and listen before trying to name a Maine railroad crossing for a…
U.S. law enforcement arrested an alleged top MS-13 gang leader and Salvadoran illegal immigrant, Henrry Josue Villatoro Santos, 24, on…
A Winterport Republican has introduced a bill that limits the immunity of the state’s education system. The bill’s public hearing…
A Hallowell Democrat has introduced a bill to expand the use of overseas absentee ballots for local elections. In last…
The Kennebec County Sheriff’s Department arrested Jason A. Rocque, 47, after he was allegedly found with multiple firearms in his…
An Auburn Democrat has introduced a bill that would prevent Maine voters in the northern, more rural part of the…
A public hearing is now on the books for a series of constitutional amendments that would give Mainers the right…
Nearly two-thirds of Mainers agree with President Donald Trump (R) that biological men should be barred from participating in women’s…
Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, who just this week announced her candidacy for governor, has “serious concerns” about the…
A federal appeals court has reinstated a lawsuit brought by a Maine substance abuse counselor who alleges a state judge…
Secretary of State Shenna Bellows (D) revealed Thursday — unintentionally — why President Donald Trump is almost certain to prevail…
Maine Democrats tried to silence Rep. Laurel Libby for defending women’s sports. As a result, they’ve given her more of…
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) updated its guidelines on Wednesday to ensure that illegal immigrants and…
Republican lawmakers are taking steps to make Maine’s new Paid Family and Medical Leave Program voluntary. Currently, all employers and…
An employee of the Guilford area school district (SAD 4) has been arrested and charged with possession of child pornography,…
The Trump Administration’s multiple probes into Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) and her cabinet agencies have now expanded to include…
Democrat Rep. Jared Golden (ME-CD2) urged U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Jamieson Greer to crack down on ascendant Chinese shipbuilding in…
Maine lawmakers in the state Senate have rejected a push to call for an Article V Convention to amend the…
Maine’s Democratic legislators have returned once again to one of their favorite legislative priorities: cracking down on Second Amendment rights.…
Maine’s Judiciary Committee is set to hold a massive public hearing this Friday on a slate of abortion-related legislation. The…
Republican lawmakers in Maine have proposed an amendment to the state’s constitution that would prohibit the governor from calling the…
Tomorrow the legislature gavels in for a day of work in the Governor’s new special session. Both the House and…
The Legislative Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety voted unanimously on Monday in favor of a bill from Rep.…
As Secretary of State Shenna Bellows launches her campaign to succeed Gov. Janet Mills (D-Maine) in 2026, she has not…
Democrat lawmakers are now looking to amend Maine’s constitution to cap property tax increases for senior homeowners. Sponsored by Sen.…
Struck by how quickly Augusta has changed, I look back to when I got my start in the capital. In…
The Portland Public School Board will be considering changes to its multiple equity-related policies in order to avoid an appearance…
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday cracking down on voter fraud through a slew of election integrity…
The legislature’s Committee on Labor held a public hearing on Tuesday for a bill from Rep. Valli Geiger (D-Rockland) to…
Chief Patrol Agent Juan Bernal, the U.S. Border Patrol’s top official in Maine’s Houlton Sector, on Monday released a promotional…
The U.S. reached agreements with Ukraine and Russia on Tuesday to stop attacks on maritime traffic in the Black Sea…
An Eddington man was arrested on Tuesday in connection to social media posts in which he allegedly made threats against…
China’s growing foothold over the Panama Canal isn’t just fueling its own commercial interests, it also appears to be helping…
As U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pushes forward with his Make America Healthy Again…
The Maine Department of Economic and Community Development (DECD) has sponsored a pilot computer programming training project specifically targeted to…
A group of Maine House Democrats is working to enshrine the commemoration of the January 2021 Capitol protests into law…
A Maine Republican representative has filed an application to begin collecting signatures for a People’s Veto of the $11.3 billion…
Abigail Adams, wife of John Adams and mother of John Quincy Adams, was an insightful, “to the point” writer. Without…
Lawmakers on the Veterans and Legal Affairs (VLA) Committee are divided along partisan lines over whether or not to advance…
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Administration for Children and Families (ACF) issued a memo on Monday…
You get a censure! and you get a censure! and you get a censure! Action in the House seems to…
The Maine state government is Frigged Up Beyond All Recognition (FUBAR, as the military acronym is politely known). It’s obvious…
This past week in Augusta, Democrat lawmakers pursued a relatively obscure parliamentary maneuver to pass an $11.3 billion spending bill…
A former student at Bonny Eagle High School in Standish is facing two counts of gross sexual assault for allegedly…
Tarlan Ahmadov, the director of the Maine Office of New Americans (ONA) who has recently faced calls for his resignation…
A multi-day Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operation in the Boston, Massachusetts area last week led to the arrests of…
Plot : Star of “The Blair Witch Project” retires from acting, moves to small town in Maine, gets elected to…
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has suspended funding for migrant shelters as it investigates possible misuse of the funds…
Former President Joe Biden has offered to come back into politics after dropping out of the 2024 presidential race to…
The Department of Defense (DOD) and Department of Energy (DOE) have funded more than 100 research projects using Chinese government…
President Donald Trump’s administration has removed the Biden-era Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) advisory designating gun violence as…
The Maine Legislature’s Committee on Environment and Natural Resources voted against two Republican-led bills that would prevent geo-engineering in the…
Majority Democrats in the Maine Legislature approved an $11.3 billion budget in the late hours of Thursday night after repeated…
An illegal alien was among two New York-based individuals who were arrested in Auburn on Thursday in connection to a…
Ryan McLaughlin, a sports reporter with The Ellsworth American, deleted his X account on Thursday following intense backlash after he…
Somali-American Abdullahi Ali has had a prolific life since arriving in Lewiston, Maine as a refugee in 2009. Ali has…
President Donald Trump signed an executive Thursday that represents the first step toward officially abolishing the federal Department of Education…
A new bill introduced this week looks to amend the laws governing Maine’s new Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML)…
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) confirmed on Wednesday that the University of Maine system of state-funded schools will comply…
The Maine House Democrats endeavored to move forward with what will be a nearly $12 billion biennial spending program on…
Three illegal aliens from the People’s Republic of China are currently being held in the custody of U.S. Immigration and…
The Maine House Democrats selected self-described “Transgender Death Educator” Quinn Gormley, former executive director of the far-left transgender advocacy group…
A U.S. Department of Education’s (DOE) Office of Civil Rights (OCR) investigation found on Wednesday that the Maine DOE is…
A French member of European Parliament made headlines on Sunday when he said it was time for the United States…
Portland Public Schools Superintendent Ryan Scallon on Tuesday doubled down on the district’s commitment to “equity” and to continue allowing…
A Stoneham woman was arrested this week after allegedly speeding near an elementary school and leading an Oxford County Sheriff’s…
Republican lawmakers are pushing for Maine to eliminate the state’s vehicle excise tax and replace it with an annual mileage-based…
Sen. Joe Baldacci (D-Penobscot) wants the state to either purchase or use eminent domain to seize control of the Bangor…
The question now isn’t whether President Trump will ever invite the country’s top judge to his Mar-A-Lago hideout for a…
Madness comes in many forms. Maine seems to be ground zero for it. Despite historic support for mandatory minimum sentences…
The transgender-identifying Waterville City Councilor Rien Finch—formerly known as Hannah Heidt—resigned from her position without warning on Monday, claiming that…
Maine Democrats are spending money like crazy. Is anything in Maine actually getting better?Senator Matt Harrington and Maine Wire Editor-in-Chief…
The FBI successfully extradited Francisco Javier Roman-Bardales, 47, thought to be a key leader of the MS-13 terrorist gang, on…
Democrat lawmakers are now looking to extend funding that makes community college free for all Maine residents — a benefit…
With over 10,000 overdoses last year alone and fatalities — many of them adolescents — ranging from 40 to 70…
Senate Minority Leader Trey Stewart joined Maine Wire Editor-in-Chief Steve Robinson to describe the largest spending package in Maine history,…
Three Dominican nationals were arrested Wednesday morning and charged in connection to an alleged conspiracy to distribute cocaine and crack…
On Tuesday, Portland Police took three suspects into custody accused of displaying handguns and making threats against an individual at…
The State of Maine has now awarded the last of the $60 million relief package approved last year in response…
An investigation into a shoplifting complaint by the Oxford County Sheriff’s Office led to four arrests and the seizure of…
Maine lawmakers are on track to reject a proposal to soften the restrictions surrounding candidates’ ability to communicate with voters…
As Maine faces a potentially substantial loss of federal education funding for refusing to comply with one of President Donald…