On Thursday City Councilor Mark Dion announced his bid to become Portland’s next Mayor. Portland’s current Mayor Kate Snyder said…
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Chairman of the Board of the California-based conservative think tank the Claremont Institute Tom Klingenstein has released the first of…
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…
Users on the most popular subreddit for Portland reacted harshly Wednesday morning to the news that migrants from sub-Saharan Africa…
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,…
Gov. Janet Mills’ signature late-term abortion bill, the very bill she said she would not support during her re-election campaign,…
The Maine Legislature is set to continue debate over LD 168, a bill that would require a “federally licensed firearms…
An armed employee at Turnberry Towers in Las Vegas stopped an active shooter who attempted to enter the building’s lobby…
Mainers must be 21-years-old to buy tobacco products and at least 18-years-old to use a tanning salon. But if Gov.…
The federal government may have handed out more than $200 billion in taxpayer money to fraudsters under the guise of…
Maine’s State Senate on Tuesday blocked a proposed amendment that would have put a four-year moratorium on the trafficking of…
A combination of negligence, misconduct and “outright job performance failures” created an environment which allowed notorious child sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein…
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…
CNN received a leak from an undisclosed source of an audio recording of a July 2021 interview former President Donald…
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…
Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said Monday that the House of Representatives will launch an impeachment inquiry into President Biden’s…
After a ride-along tour of the U.S.-Mexico border Sunday night, Florida Governor and Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis announced his…
The Legislature passed a resolution Friday directing the Governor’s Office to establish a working group tasked with studying the ability…
The Daily Caller News Foundation – Will Kessler on June 23, 2023 Siemens Energy announced Thursday that it will be undergoing…
The Daily Caller News Foundation – Jason Cohen on June 26, 2023 BlackRock CEO Larry Fink said Sunday that he will…
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 the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee released IRS whistleblower testimonies Thursday alleging political interference by the Justice Department…
Stacie Marie Laughton, the first openly transgender woman to win election to a state office in New Hampshire, has been…
After Democrats in Maine’s House of Representatives narrowly passed Governor Janet Mills’ controversial late-term abortion bill in the early hours…
Following an “extensive search and review process,” Portland City Manager Danielle West has selected Mark Dubois to be the city’s…
“We should all storm the institution, out of anger that this is the attitude that they’ve taken about our history.”…
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…
President Joe Biden was in the room when his son Hunter Biden sent a WhatsApp message to Chinese businessman Henry…
The young couple gunned down Monday night in Westbrook had recently relocated to Maine from Texas with their two young…
Portland’s Corporation Counsel’s Office is conducting “legal research” into whether City Councilor At-Large Pious Ali violated a state law against…
Over the past few days, the Legislature has shot down a series of bills and resolutions aimed at shoring up…
If lawmakers voted to approve a paid leave program — funded by a new one percent payroll tax on workers…
U.S. Rep. Jason Smith (R-Mo.), Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, said Thursday that the committee has received credible…
The U.S. House Ways and Means Committee on Thursday released shocking whistleblower testimonies suggesting alleged impropriety by the IRS and…
At a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday entitled “Protecting Pride: Defending the Civil Rights of LGBTQ+ Americans,” a queer…
The State Legislature has officially defeated a bill that would have lowered Maine’s sales tax rate from 5.5 percent to…
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…
An employee of the world’s largest asset management company, BlackRock, describes how the company attempts to stay out of the…
Lawmakers voted Wednesday to kill a bill that would have facilitated the installation of “safe haven baby boxes,” referred to…
After rejecting an effort to censure Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) last week over his role in the debunked Trump-Russia…
An “accounting error” resulted in the Department of Defense sending an extra $6.2 billion in aid to Ukraine, a Pentagon…
The Senate resoundingly rejected last week a bill that would have raised vehicle inspection costs and given the Maine State…
Boston Police and Fire crews responded to a medical emergency at a public housing complex Saturday and discovered a bizarre…
American 13-year-olds have posted another decline in math and reading testing, according to a Wednesday release of data from the…
A new rule from the Biden Administration has sharply limited the number of migrants who can legitimately claim asylum after…
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…
In the latest episode of Tucker Carlson’s massively popular new show “Tucker on Twitter” released Tuesday, Carlson roasts fellow Maine…
The Maine State Police Bomb Unit was called in last week to investigate and disarm an “explosive device” discovered in…
The Senate voted Tuesday along party lines to reject a bill that would have restricted the use of private donations…
The Maine Department of Education (MDOE) is a failing institution that is based on white supremacy, according to comments Speaker…
President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden has struck a deal with the U.S. Attorney of Delaware in which he is…
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,…
The state of Maine has lurched from short-term spending agreement to short-term spending agreement, often using pricey borrowing to pay…
Maine’s school rank 34th among all 50 states in the nation when it comes to education, according the 2023 Kids…
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…
Democratic House lawmakers on Thursday killed a bill that would have guaranteed parents’ “fundamental right to make decisions regarding the…
MSNBC beat out Fox News in average primetime viewers last week, breaking Fox’s 120 week most-watched cable news network winning…
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 Shanna 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…
Students at the Marshall Simonds Middle School in Burlington, Mass., tore down rainbow decorations and chanted “U.S.A are my pronouns”…
Maine’s House of Representatives approved a bill (83-56) that will increase security arrangements at the State House complex just moments…
The Maine House on Wednesday rejected a bill (76-71) that would have prohibited cities and towns in the state from…
The Maine Public Utilities Commission (MPUC) on Tuesday voted to approve electricity rate increases associated with a program that hikes…
Maine Republicans and conservative candidates posted victories last night in a State House special election and a handful local elections.…
State lawmakers are considering a proposal to let cities and towns create areas where narcotic users can consume the illegal…
Former President Donald Trump has entered a not guilty plea to all 37 counts of federal charges brought against him…
As offshore wind power continues its inexorable advance in the Gulf of Maine, Gov. Janet Mills and Maine’s Congressional Delegation…
As of Tuesday, House Speaker Rachel Talbot Ross (D-Portland) has not responded to three requests for comment on why she…
The Maine House of Representatives has passed a bill that will force hospitals to comply with federal price transparency requirements.…
The South Portland City Council is set to hold a workshop on Thursday to discuss implementing a citywide “Pay As…
On Monday evening the Portland City Council voted to approve a contract to build a new 180-bed shelter targeted towards…
Two academics at Canada’s University of Toronto have published a paper analyzing the use of medically assisted suicide in cases…
In an effort to reduce the stigma associated with committing crimes and going to jail, Maine House of Representatives approved…
Democratic lawmakers on Monday rejected a proposal from Rep. John Andrews (R-Paris) that would have allowed the boards of government-run…