The U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) decided Monday that it would not hear an appeal from Black Lives Matter (BLM) activist…
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Four Illegal Immigrants have been arrested and face federal charges for their involvement with a group which has stolen from…
A Skowhegan courtroom devolved into an all-out brawl during the sentencing of Jason Servil for the 2022 murder of Alice…
Gov. Janet Mills (D) signed into law a bill last week repealing limitations on municipal property tax collection that have…
Smith and Wesson has threatened to shutter its 44,000-square-foot Houlton facility if a Democratic gun control bill under consideration in…
Maine’s House unanimously passed a bill forbidding state and local government from contracting with businesses affiliated with hostile foreign governments,…
Lawmakers in Augusta have approved legislation changing how medical debt is handled in the State of Maine. LD 2115 —…
A month-long joint investigation between the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency (MDEA) and the Portland Police has led to the arrest…
The Legislature voted Wednesday to sustain Gov. Janet Mills’ (D) veto of a bill preventing repeat offenders from being charged…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) announced on Friday that she has appointed retired Air Force Colonel Alice Briones as Maine’s…
Democratic Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (ME-01) on Thursday released a statement praising the Biden administration’s move to expand background checks on…
A Republican bill passed the Maine House of Representatives late Thursday evening that will result in tax increases on high-earners…
Gov. Janet Mills (D) and House Speaker Rachel Talbot Ross (D-Portland) issued a joint statement on Thursday requesting that the…
A traffic stop on Route 9 in Eddington last week led to the seizure 60 grams of fentanyl, the Penobscot…
Residents of New England are paying some of the highest taxes in the United States, according to a comprehensive study…
Iowa’s Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds signed a bill into law Wednesday allowing Iowa law enforcement to arrest individuals present in…
A former undergraduate student at Cornell University faces up to five years in prison after pleading guilty to making a…
A South Portland man has been found guilty of possessing a firearm after being convicted of a domestic violence misdemeanor…
Given the Maine Wire’s role as the fastest growing media outlet in Maine and the preeminent investigative reporting team focused…
The City of Portland’s Social Services Division, in charge of administering the city’s General Assistance program, has nearly tripled its…
Lawmakers in Augusta have scrapped a bill that would have legalized the possession of illicit drugs, including opioids, swapping it…
The Falmouth High School Civil Rights Team on Tuesday gave a presentation on the Falmouth Public Schools’ recently adopted “Transgender…
A Salvadoran national who is a documented member of the notorious MS-13 transnational criminal street gang, and who was previously…
Maine’s House of Representatives voted Tuesday to require that farmworkers be paid the state minimum wage despite concerns that artificially…
Early Saturday morning, when most Mainers were asleep or recovering from a blizzard which knocked out power across the state,…
A Caribou man has been sentenced to more than 13 years in prison for his role in a large drug…
The Oxford County Sheriff’s Department responded Monday night to reports of a stabbing in Buckfield. Deputies, along with officers of…
In just under three years, the U.S. Department of Justice task force in charge of investigating and prosecuting instances of…
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Wednesday that the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), the key…
Gov. Janet Mills (D) signed into law this past Wednesday a bill that implements new regulations on the fees that…
The foreign-born population in the United States grew by 15.6 percent from 2010 to 2022, according to a new report…
New Hampshire’s Republican-led Senate on Friday passed two bills that aim to protect young female athletes and provide parents with…
The City of Portland has announced that it is looking to hire a new director for their Department of Planning…
Lawmakers in Augusta have approved a bill providing property tax relief to a broader group of Maine veterans and their…
Former Republican President Donald Trump announced his stance Monday on abortion and fertility treatments in advance of the 2024 presidential…
A man was arrested Sunday in connection with a fire at the Burlington office of Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders (I)…
Three individuals are facing drug trafficking charges after Auburn Police conducted a major drug bust at a South Main Street…
The Maine Home Education Alliance (MHEA) hosted its first annual Leader Summit on Saturday, drawing homeschool leaders from across the…
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pennsylvania) once again broke with the establishment Democratic Party and spoke out against squatters rights and soft-on-crime…
Gov. Janet Mills (D) issued a statement Saturday, mourning the passing of former Gov. Joseph Brennan, a Democrat who governed…
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday that total nonfarm payroll employment in March rose by 303,000, with the…
Rep. Lynn Williams (D-Bar Harbor) has quietly resigned from her position in the House of Representatives, shrinking the Democrat’s majority…
A Bangor Police officer was justified in shooting at a woman who was brandishing a pair of knives at two…
Maine’s House passed a controversial bill targeting “unauthorized paramilitary training” which has raised concerns with Second Amendment rights advocates, who…
No Labels announced Thursday that it will not be advancing a ticket in the 2024 presidential election. This comes just…
Earlier this week, lawmakers defeated a bill that would have allowed municipalities to impose a one percent sales tax on…
In the coming months, the state government will be studying ways to increase the use of renewable energy in and…
An “Economic Policy Analyst” at the left-wing dark money-funded think tank the Maine Center for Economic Policy (MECEP) is arguing…
A bill separating the Office of Child and Family Services (OCFS) from the Maine Department of Health and Human Services…
A Colombian national who was paroled into the U.S. after illegally crossing the border at Eagle Pass, Texas, has been…
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has approved more than $7 million in taxpayer funding for renewable energy and…
Lewiston Police on Tuesday announced the arrest of two out-of-state fugitives from Massachusetts, one of whom is wanted for a…
President Joe Biden issued a statement condemning Israel following the deaths of seven humanitarian aid workers in Gaza as a…
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Boston have arrested a Dominican national previously charged with homicide, strangulation, and…
The vast majority of illegal immigrants flown directly into the U.S. by the Biden Administration since 2022 have been sent…
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on Tuesday announced a series of large drug and illicit currency seizures near El…
A Maine man pleaded guilty in a Massachusetts federal court Monday to a conspiracy to straw purchase firearms in Maine…
Lawmakers in Augusta have voted to repeal limitations on municipal property tax collection that have been in place for nearly…
The Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a train versus car collision on the Hammett Road in Enfield. On Monday,…
Mainers are some of the most heavily taxed citizens in the United States. According to a recent study conducted by…
Democratic Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek on Monday signed into a law a bill that recriminalizes the possession of small amounts…
Juan Bernal, Chief Patrol Agent of the U.S. Border Patrol’s Houlton Sector, is warning tourists who plan to come to…
Following a 10-month vacancy in the role, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced Tuesday the appointment of a new…
The Osseo Area School District in Minnesota decided that parents could opt their children out of the upcoming “LGBTQIA+ History…
The Democratic effort to amend Maine’s Constitution to protect the abortion industry is on life-support after failing to get a…
Lewiston Police announced the arrest of a 26-year-old man Monday after he was found trespassing in a common area of…
On Monday, state lawmakers in the House of Representatives advanced Gov. Janet Mills’ proposal to transfer millions out of the…
Conservatives and Christians across the country were outraged when President Joe Biden announced on Good Friday, a day when Christians…
The state of Maine ranks dead last among all U.S. states for progress made toward “unwinding” the massive pandemic emergency…
A bill sponsored by House Speaker Rachel Talbot Ross (D-Portland) would establish racial quotas for membership on the board in…
An investigation is underway after a Bowdoin College student was found dead by police Sunday in a parking lot near…
U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Boston have arrested an unlawfully present Guatemalan national who has been charged…
Gov. Janet Mills (D) announced Friday her plans to allocate millions in taxpayers’ dollars to a series of one-time initiatives…
More than 10 percent of the ballots cast in Maine’s March 5 Democratic presidential primary election were recorded as “blank”…
The Sanctuary Inn, located in downtown Ellsworth, bills itself as a place for recovering drug addicts, people experiencing homelessness, and…
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has reported the death of a 24-year-old Guatemalan woman who fell from the border…
An Auburn couple is facing multiple drug trafficking charges after police found $24,000 worth of illegal drugs at a woman’s…
A Maine banking executive says that for the United States, “evolving to a cashless environment” should be a priority because…
All members of the Maine State Legislature’s Innovation, Development, Economic Advancement and Business (IDEA) Committee have supported the passage of…
With less than 75 days to go before Maine Republicans in the Second Congressional District will pick a candidate to…
Lawmakers have unanimously voted to advance a bill allocating additional state funding for homeless shelters, explicitly reserving a portion of…
U.S. Sen. Susan Collins is urging federal bureaucrats to avoid reclassifying the potato as a vegetable, a move which could…
The Permanent Commission on the Status of Racial, Indigenous, & Tribal Populations (PCRITP), which was established in 2019 by the…
A British court ruled that Wikileaks founder and journalist Julian Assange cannot be extradited to face espionage charges in the…
Lawmakers in Augusta have advanced a bill that aims to prevent repeat offenders from being charged with felony theft if…
The Maine State Housing Authority will be financing the construction of 105 new affordable rental units in several towns throughout…
The Motel 6 in Portland has lost the lodging licenses for all but five of its rooms due to health…
Former President Donald Trump has weighed in on the 2024 Republican primary race in Maine’s 2nd Congressional District, throwing his…
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) has signed into a law a bill that prohibits minors under 14 years old in…
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday morning in a case concerning the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) recently loosened…
The recent destruction of a massive solar farm in Texas highlights the fragility of “renewable” energy infrastructure, and has raised…
A suspect in a child sexual assault case in Strong died after crashing head-on into a tree during a police…
A Moscow court on Tuesday again extended the pretrial detention for Bowdoin graduate and Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich…
A 19-year-old man allegedly pulled a knife on employees while stealing alcohol from the Bangor Walmart over the weekend, police…
Maine lawmakers have approved along party lines a bill to implement new regulations on the fees that landlords can impose…
If surging crime, unprecedented levels of illegal immigration, and a deadly fentanyl epidemic wasn’t enough, now we can add a…
Seven Chinese nationals have been indicted on federal charges for their alleged involvement in a hacking group that spent over…
A proposal requiring legislative oversight for agency rulemaking related to vehicle emissions standards — including the establishment of “zero-emission requirements”…
Linda Lorraine Bean, the granddaughter of L.L. Bean founder Leon Leonwood Bean and a force in Maine’s business and political…
Democratic Maine Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (CD-1) issued a statement Friday claiming that U.S. aid to Israel is illegal due to…