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The Maine Department of Labor (MDOL) announced Monday that it has negotiated the recovery of over $20,000 owed collectively to…
Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Tim Walz’s Department of Education and Department of Veterans Affairs held programs segregated by race and…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced his opposition to former Republican President Donald Trump shortly before flying to America and cozying…
U.S. Sens. Angus King (I-Maine) and Jerry Moran (R-Kans.) have introduced the Farmhouse-to-Workforce Housing Act, a piece of legislation aimed…
Maine Statistical Analysis Center (MSAC) released a report Monday on the use of body-worn cameras (BWCs) among police departments throughout…
The Portland Press Herald, one of Maine’s news websites, published a letter Sunday asking whether former President Donald Trump faked…
The Mills administration has paid $120,000 to the Maine Trust for Local News (MTLN), the nonprofit that owns the Portland…
Maine homes are 7.53 percent more expensive than they were in August of 2023 — now reaching a median sale…
A Brownfield man was arrested on multiple drug and firearm charges following a raid conducted by the Maine Drug Enforcement…
The U.S. House of Representatives unanimously advanced a bill Friday that would increase Secret Service protection for major presidential and…
U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) voted Friday against a bill that would have led to the automatic deportation of illegal…
The United States House of Representatives is set to vote this week on a stop-gap measure that would fund the…
Maine’s August unemployment rate and labor force participation rate remained largely unchanged in comparison to recent months, according to the…
A traffic stop in Lewiston shortly after midnight on Thursday led to the arrest of two men and the seizure…
The second gunman accused of attempting to assassinate former President Donald Trump has offered a $150,000 reward to anyone who…
Maine has now launched a $36 million Home Energy Rebate Program funded by federal tax dollars allocated by the Inflation…
Amid discussion regarding recent property tax hikes at a South Portland City Council meeting last month, Mayor Misha Pride suggested…
Voters in RSU 16 approved a $28 million school budget by just 153 votes after rejecting two previous iterations. This…
Six police departments across Maine have been awarded a total of just over $2 million in federal grants to support…
Mainers appear largely divided over the five ballot questions set to go before voters this November, according to a new…
A new poll from Pan Atlantic Research — a Portland-based independent marketing research and consulting firm — revealed this month…
Free speech isn’t always so free on college campuses, according to a recent ranking done by College Pulse and the…
A new poll by Pan Atlantic Research shows the race for Maine’s Second Congressional District is leaning in favor of…
Sanford city officials and members of the city council were in agreement during their Tuesday meeting on the need to…
During a town hall event Monday evening in Portland, Somali-American Maine State Rep. Deqa Dhalac (D-South Portland) claimed that immigrants’…
Asian restaurant owners in Maine have become targets for sophisticated and often lucrative burglaries at the hands of well-organized, highly…
The federal Department of Transportation (DOT) announced Tuesday that Maine has been awarded nearly $1.5 million in grant funding to…
A motor vehicle crash on Main Street in Westbrook on Tuesday that left one car flipped on its side led…
A Portland man who in 2020 sold fentanyl-laced fake pills that killed a York County woman has been sentenced to…
The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Maine CDC) announced on Tuesday that a Maine resident has tested positive…
Maine’s Congressional delegation sent a joint letter to Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro urging cooperation on the cleanup effort at…
At a Portland town hall event Monday evening hosted by a collection of progressive nonprofit organizations, a lawyer from the…
The Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry (DCAF) announced Monday that applications have now opened for a combined $3…
Bangor Animal Control is continuing to investigate the mysterious disappearance of cats in Bangor’s Fairmount neighborhood, with officials saying multiple…
On Tuesday the Sanford City Council is expected to discuss a “public health crisis” caused by a large number of…
The City of Portland is now seeking applications to fill the vacancy at the top of the city’s Justice, Diversity,…
Missouri Republican U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley released a report Monday detailing the failures of the U.S. Secret Service (USSS) that…
Following the University of Maine System’s (UMS) decision to renege on a deal to sell the Hutchinson Center in Belfast…
All members of Maine’s Congressional delegation have now spoken out in response to the second attempted assassination of former President…
Just ahead of the anniversary of the tragic mass shootings in Lewiston on Oct. 25, 2023, U.S. Senator from Maine…
Gov. Janet Mills (D) announced Monday that the State has selected twelve new Land for Maine’s Future (LMF) conservation projects,…
A Salvadoran national living illegally in the U.S. was arrested last week on Nantucket Island by federal immigration officers after…
An alleged ABC News employee has stated that the news outlet struck an agreement with Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential…
Maine’s top newspapers offered short shrift Monday morning to the second apparent assassination attempt on former Republican President Donald Trump,…
The suspected gunman, arrested Sunday in Florida after his assassination attempt on former Republican President Donald Trump was foiled by…
Former President Donald Trump is safe after what the FBI is calling an apparent second assassination attempt unfolded on Sunday…
After we published a story regarding the University of Maine’s decision renege on a deal to sell the Hutchinson Center…
The Bangor refugee resettlement office run by Catholic Charities Maine is planning to move 150 migrants into cities and towns…
The New York man charged in April with criminal threatening and aggravated sex trafficking for running his “massage parlor” as…
Former President Donald Trump (R) has ruled out a second debate against Vice President Kamala Harris (D). Two days after…
South Portland residents passionately spoke at last week’s City Council meeting about the recent property tax hikes that blindsided many…
On Monday and Tuesday, Gov. Janet Mills (D) attended the 45th Annual Conference of New England Governors and Eastern Canadian…
As legions of you noted in emails to me, Thursday morning’s Maine Wire newsletter malfunctioned. As the political aphorism goes,…
The University of Maine (UMaine) has officially rescinded its offer to sell the Hutchinson Center to Calvary Chapel Belfast. Earlier…
A joint operation by the Portland Police Department and Maine Drug Enforcement Agency (MDEA) led to the arrest of a…
A Bangor-based homelessness fundraising organization is propagating educational materials aimed at helping homeless individuals avoid arrest for a variety of…
A combined $8 million worth of grant funding has now been made available “to help communities become resilient to the…
On Tuesday the Portland City Council’s Health and Human Services and Public Safety Committee voted to advance a proposal from…
The Maine Department of Labor (MDOL) announced Wednesday that, in compliance with state law, Maine’s minimum wage will be increased…
The owner of multiple massage parlors throughout Maine has been arrested in connection to a police investigation into alleged sex…
Federal authorities in Boston have seized more than 350 internet domains that investigators believe were used for the illegal importation…
During a Tuesday meeting of the Portland City Council’s Health and Human Services and Public Safety Committee, City Councilor Kate…
The federal Department of Justice (DOJ) has sued the State of Maine for allegedly violating the Americans with Disabilities Act…
An Edgartown man has pleaded guilty to charges related to an armed bank robbery on Martha’s Vineyard, federal prosecutors said…
Four individuals from Massachusetts and New York face charges in connection with a health care fraud scheme that allegedly involved…
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump accused Vice President Kamala Harris of copying his philosophy because she had no policy proposals…
A University of Maine employee who worked at the school for nearly four decades with a “completely unblemished” record was…
President Joe Biden touted offshore wind’s “progress” on his watch on Thursday despite the fact that the industry has struggled…
Violent Venezuelan gang members have infiltrated the U.S. and were authorized by gang leaders to fire upon American law enforcement,…
Three on One is ABC Fun: The second presidential debate of 2023 took place, this time featuring Vice President Kamala…
Maine Governor Janet Mills’ (D) Office of Policy Innovation and the Future (GOPIF) has granted $15,000 to a Portland-based consultant…
The Maine State Housing Authority announced Monday that a combined $2 million from the state’s Emergency Housing Relief Fund (EHRF)…
In the span of less than two weeks since Lewiston city officials and the Androscoggin County district attorney announced their plans to…
A man arrested for obstruction of justice and acting as an unregistered foreign agent in New York City has been…
A 59-year-old man was found dead in an apparent suicide at a state park in Washington County on June 8,…
If you woke up on Monday and found the internet filled with memes of former President Donald Trump rescuing kittens…
Google is back in the courtroom this week as its parent company Alphabet faces allegations from the federal Department of…
Settlement funds received by the City of Portland from a nationwide lawsuit against several opioid manufacturers and distributors could go…
Maine has received a combined $33.8 million in federal funding across twenty-one projects designed to improve the state’s hydropower infrastructure.…
A 36-year-old New York man is facing multiple charges following a pursuit and altercation with Portland police early Monday morning.…
In August of 2023, immigration reporter Jennie Taer published a leaked Department of Homeland Security (DHS) memo that revealed Asian…
Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden, has pleaded guilty to nine federal tax-related felonies, adding to his already…
A Bangladeshi illegal alien who earlier this year was arrested by Connecticut State Police on multiple charges of sexual abuse…
A new program aimed at protecting elderly Mainers from scams by attaching informational brochures to prescription bags at Hannaford pharmacies…
Tragedy struck the nation on Wednesday after a Georgia high school student opened fire on his classmates and teachers. Law…
On Wednesday, the Portland City Council voted unanimously to pass a resolution calling upon City Manager Danielle West to divest…
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday against Internet Archive — a nonprofit digital library, well-known for its Wayback…
A Florida woman woke up early Saturday morning to an illegal migrant sexually assaulting her while she was sleeping in…
Volvo announced Wednesday that it has scaled back its plans to make only electric vehicles (EVs) by 2030. Instead, the…
A key web portal veterans use to get their businesses SBA certified was dysfunctional even as Kamala Harris promised new SBA benefits.
Republicans have revealed their last-ditch effort to ensure election integrity before former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris…
A traffic stop early Tuesday morning in Lewiston led to the arrest of a felon out on bail after a…
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has indicated that it will not make a final decision on the possible reclassification…
A U.S. citizen has been arrested after border officials thwarted an alleged child smuggling attempt at an Arizona port of…
Maine’s largest Christian school filed an appeal Tuesday with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit as part…
U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced on Tuesday the arrest of an illegal alien charged with five counts of…
Last week, the Maine Department of Labor (MDOL) unveiled an updated set of regulations for the state’s new Paid Family…
A Dixfield man has been arrested after authorities found a 9-month-old baby girl suffering from an opioid overdose at a…
Former President Donald Trump’s campaign was forced to refute rumors that the Republican presidential nominee had given up on winning…