Gov. Janet Mills (D) has again proposed implementing a tax on streaming service subscriptions in Maine that would raise the…
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A blowtorch-wielding man subdued by Los Angeles residents in a viral online video is living in the United States unlawfully…
Gov. Janet Mills (D) released her proposed biennial budget Friday, accompanied by a 129-page piece of enacting legislation. Among these…
President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, a decorated combat veteran and former Fox News host, faced…
Maine will be sending two firefighting crews to California to help battle the devastating fires that continue to ravage the…
Last week, Maine Gov. Janet Mills warned of a $118 million gap in MaineCare funding — a shortfall that appears…
New Hampshire’s new Gov. Kelly Ayotte (R) announced during her inaugural speech on Thursday that she would work to ban…
A Republican Member of Congress wants to get rid of the Income Tax and move the United States to a…
Maine leaders have decided that the state will not be increasing the minimum legal catch size for lobsters this July…
A Portland man was arrested Sunday after he allegedly stole a boat and caused at least $25,000 of damage to…
Gov. Janet Mills (D) proposed a new one-dollar-per-pack tax increase on cigarettes Friday. The tax proposal comes as Mills attempts…
A federal court in Kentucky has blocked the Biden Administration’s effort to redefine the term “sex” in Title IX to…
Maine’s Democratic Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (ME-CD1) says the wildfires raging in Southern California are the result of rising temperatures, stronger…
The United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments Friday morning in the case concerning a potential ban of the popular,…
The Maine Republican Party on Saturday elected York County GOP Chairman Jim Deyermond to serve as the chairman of the…
President Joe Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the nation, to Hillary Clinton and…
The Biden administration announced on Friday it will provide protections to hundreds of thousands of El Salvadoran nationals living in…
Republican Texas Sen. John Cornyn introduced a bill Thursday to allow concealed carry license holders to carry their guns in…
Sen. Craig Hickman (D-Kennebec) has sponsored a bipartisan bill that would grant the Legislature’s Government Oversight Committee (GOC) the right…
A bipartisan bill imposing an “impact fee” on megayachts has been introduced by Sen. Rick Bennett (R-Oxford) and co-sponsored by…
The first bill of Maine’s 132nd Legislature is a governor’s bill aimed at implementing the recommendations from the Maine Infrastructure…
A universal basic income study published in November found that paying low-income Americans an average of $492 a month led…
Gov. Janet Mills (D) has proposed elevating the Governor’s Energy Office (GEO) to a cabinet-level department as part of her…
President Joe Biden confirmed in an interview with USA Today that he is considering preemptive pardons for Dr. Anthony Fauci…
King Frederik X of Denmark tweaked his country’s royal coat of arms to enlarge symbols of Greenland and the Faroe…
Maine’s Democrat-controlled House of Representatives pushed through a resolution on Wednesday, demanding a House Committee on Ethics investigation into Rep.…
Oral arguments were heard Tuesday in the cases filed by two Maine Christian schools — St. Dominic Academy in Auburn…
After a year in which many Mainers were burdened with skyrocketing property tax bills, state lawmakers are poised to consider…
U.S. Senator from Maine Susan Collins (R) wrapped up the 118th Congress last week without missing a single vote, extending…
Maine lawmakers have officially begun submitting bills for the new legislative session scheduled to begin Wednesday, and among these are…
President-elect Donald Trump announced a new plan during a Mar-a-Lago press conference on Tuesday to rename the Gulf of Mexico…
President Joe Biden (D) signed the Social Security Fairness Act (SSFA) — authored by Sens. Susan Collins (R) and Sherrod…
The Mills administration managed to botch the rollout of their own new Paid Family and Medical Leave program, mistakenly listing…
A consulting firm based in Massachusetts has been awarded a $300,000 taxpayer-funded contract to advise the Maine Public Utilities Commission…
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) finalized new regulations on Tuesday, prohibiting credit reporting agencies and lenders from considering medical…
President-elect Donald Trump announced a $20 billion foreign investment in new data centers Tuesday. The pronouncement came during Trump’s pre-inauguration press…
McDonald’s announced Monday it is abandoning some of its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, joining a growing list of…
The Maine State Police (MSP) have arrested a suspect in the murder of William “Nate” Robinson, 34, of Austinville, Virginia,…
New Hampshire State Police arrested two Massachusetts residents on Tuesday after a traffic stop in Greenland, N.H., after allegedly discovering…
Going into the first session of the 132nd Legislature, lawmakers have already submitted two bills aimed at rolling back restrictions…
Honduran President Xiomara Castro threatened President-elect Donald Trump during her New Year’s address that if he moves forward with his…
In his State of the City Address Monday evening, Portland Mayor Mark Dion urged the City Council to reconsider the…
Over the past few years, Maine’s child welfare system has come under fire for its failure to protect the state’s…
More than 80 cannabis industry stakeholders gathered Friday in Augusta to address the myriad challenges facing Maine’s adult-use and medical…
The Democratic majority on the Joint Rules Committee voted Monday to preserve the controversial practice of “concept drafts,” brushing aside…
Commissioner of Maine’s Department of Economic and Community Development (DECD) Heather Johnson will be stepping down from her position on…
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his plans to resign from office Monday in the wake of a public dispute…
Pope Francis on Monday appointed a new cardinal with a liberal track record to head the archdiocese of Washington, D.C.…
Maine’s Secretary of State received more than 170,000 petition signatures on Monday from a conservative group that is looking to…
Lame-duck President Joe Biden’s administration unveiled more environmental regulations the day after Christmas, banning the manufacture of many natural gas…
A Dominican national residing at a state-funded migrant shelter in Massachusetts was recently identified by U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement…
Three people, including two individuals from the State of Georgia, were arrested on drug trafficking charges after a traffic stop…
Non-citizen voting in Maine is an actual threat to Democracy. So of course, the Democrat constitutional officers are ignoring it…
President Joe Biden is once again working to undermine President-elect Donald Trump’s upcoming agenda, rushing to impose new restrictions on…
Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) has officially been reelected as Speaker of the House, allowing lawmakers to move forward with their…
First lady Jill Biden collected tens of thousands of dollars in gifts from foreign leaders throughout 2023, according to documents…
A costly dockworkers’ strike could ignite just days before President-elect Donald Trump takes office, presenting the Republican’s administration with a…
Maine lawmakers are set to receive a 61 percent higher salary than their predecessors when they reconvene next week. This…
A Dominican national living in the U.S. illegally since crossing the southern border into Texas in early 2023 was arrested…
Six Worcester, Massachusetts, college students are facing felony kidnapping charges after a botched October attempt to participate in the online…
President Joe Biden selected 20 Americans to receive the Presidential Citizens Medal on Wednesday, including former Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney,…
At its upcoming meeting on Monday, the Portland City Council will consider issuing a Request for Proposals (RFP) for the…
The FBI issued an update Thursday on the terrorist attack that took place in the early hours of the day…
Maine’s Democratic leaders held a press conference in Bath on Thursday to tout the beginning of a new program that…
Illegal immigrants from the violent Venezuelan Tren de Aragua (TdA) gang assaulted an El Paso, Texas, border crossing in December,…
Beginning Monday, Maine childcare facilities are no longer permitted to use baby gates under most circumstances. Under the new guidance…
New York is poised to fine energy companies billions of dollars in the name of fighting climate change under a…
After taking heavy losses from Israeli forces, Hamas is now picking fights with the Palestinian Authority (PA) as its manpower…
Law enforcement seized a large quantity of cocaine, fentanyl, meth and other illegal drugs, as well as seven firearms during…
Advocates for Voter ID laws in Maine will mark a significant milestone on Monday with the submission of over 170,000…
A 16-year-old girl was shot in the leg and her older sister was injured during an assault on Dennison Street…
As many as 40 percent of the noncitizens present in Maine, including those who entered the U.S. illegally and those…
The South Portland Police Department is investigating a shooting that occurred late Sunday night at an apartment complex. Police responded…
A routine traffic stop on I-295 in Richmond on Dec. 28 turned into a major drug bust, leading to the…
Portland Police are investigating a shooting that occurred early Tuesday morning that left a man with non-life threatening injuries. [RELATED:…
Beginning on Wednesday, January 1, Maine’s minimum wage will go up to $14.65 per hour — a fifty cent increase…
The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Maine CDC) is paying a Portland-based nonprofit $90,000 to form a stakeholder…
Arkansas State Police arrested a 53-year-old Oklahoma man on Christmas Eve after a traffic stop led to the discovery of…
President-elect Donald Trump (R) has endorsed Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) to again serve as Speaker of the House for the…
Many of Maine’s elected officials have issued statements following the death of former President Jimmy Carter at the age of…
The Portland Police Department has announced that they responded to a shooting incident late Sunday night, marking the third shooting…
A Dominican national who was arrested on drug trafficking charges after allegedly attempting to hide a bag of crack cocaine…
A Maine legislative committee has been blocked by the state’s highest court from requiring a state agency to turn over…
Senator Rand Paul released his annual Festivus Report highlighting the most egregious examples of government waste on Friday, as Elon…
Some Maine voters will again be asked to go to the ballot box in February to fill a now-vacant seat…
Maine’s unemployment rate has increased slightly since October, rising to 3.1 percent. Despite this, unemployment in Maine still came in…
A federal judge ruled earlier this week that the trial for Ryan Routh — the man accused of attempting to…
The shooting of a 34-year-old Virginia man whose body was discovered in Edgecomb on Dec. 3 is tied to an…
A little-known environmental provision in the fiscal year 2025 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) has no impact on military operations,…
Gov. Janet Mills (D) announced last week that she is establishing a 21-member Artificial Intelligence task force, meant to compile…
The U.S. launched a probe into China’s semiconductor industry on Monday with just weeks remaining in President Joe Biden’s term.…
President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 out of the 40 federal death row inmates in the U.S. on…
Two Californians arrested after allegedly stealing $1,836 worth of products from various stores in Seal Beach, California, went viral on…
U.S. Congresswoman from Texas, Rep. Kay Granger (R), has been living in an assisted living facility that provides dementia care,…
President Joe Biden has pulled the plug on his most ambitious pre-election promise to cancel student loan debt for more…
A Guatemalan illegal alien who was deported under the Trump Administration has been arrested for allegedly setting a sleeping subway…
The federal government under President Joe Biden has engaged in broad efforts to censor Americans’ speech and manipulate information relevant…
The CEO of the nonprofit group that owns most of Maine’s newspapers received a massive pay increase for 2023, a…
President-elect Donald Trump threatened in a Truth Social post Friday to impose tariffs on the European Union (EU) unless the…
Despite having one more month left in office, President Joe Biden has been radio silent as Congress scrambles to put…