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The co-owner of the neo-Nazi compound in northern Maine may be prohibited from possessing firearms due to prior felony convictions,…
Gov. Janet Mills announced Tuesday a new initiative to help Maine schools recruit, train, and retain educators through pre-apprenticeship and…
A Tuesday post on the subreddit community for Portland claims that residents in the city’s West End neighborhood received a…
Former President Donald Trump and 18 of his allies were indicted by a grand jury in Georgia on Monday on…
Maine’s Community College System (MCCS) is still mandating COVID-19 shots for students enrolled in programs that require visiting third-party locations,…
Maine health care employers may have to defend themselves before the U.S. Supreme Court against an allegation that they violated…
The Daily Caller News Foundation – Brandon Poulter on August 14, 2023 Colleges and universities have started implementing questions about identity…
The Daily Caller News Foundation – Mary Lou Masters on August 15, 2023 Republicans launched an organization Tuesday to advocate for…
The Daily Caller News Foundation – Kate Anderson on August 15, 2023 Texas is looking to regain millions of dollars in…
The Maine Department of Environmental Protection (Maine DEP) is set to hold a public hearing at 9am on August 17…
Abortion has been at the forefront of politics in Maine this past year. From the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn…
On Monday U.S. Senators from Maine Susan Collins, Angus King, and Congressman Jared Golden announced a $194,000 federal grant from…
From statewide mandates coming down from Augusta to municipal-level initiatives, affordable housing has become a priority for elected officials in…
President Joe Biden was once again vacationing on Rehoboth Beach in Delaware on Sunday. Asked to comment on the devastating…
The $445 million Fiscal Year 2024-2025 supplemental budget passed by the Maine Legislature and signed into law by Gov. Janet…
The Mills Administration has made it a top priority to get Mainers driving electric vehicles (EVs) as part of its…
The Daily Caller News Foundation – Reagan Reese on August 13, 2023 In July, California’s Senate Bill 596, which would make…
The Daily Caller News Foundation – Jennie Taer on August 13, 2023 Even as southern border communities deal with an influx…
The Daily Caller News Foundation by Will Kessler on August 14, 2023 The Inflation Reduction Act did nothing to address the…
U.S. Rep. Greg Steube (R-Fla.) has filed four articles of impeachment against President Joe Biden for alleged high crimes and…
On Thursday, Maine Wire Editor-in-Chief Steve Robinson and reporter Edward Tomic visited Portland’s largest three homeless encampments and spoke with…
Maine’s municipal welfare spending, known as General Assistance, has been dominated by the city of Portland over the last four…
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Friday that he will be appointing the U.S. Attorney from Delaware, David Weiss, as…
Child labor violations are on the rise in Maine, according to a report released earlier this week by the Maine…
Tucker Carlson released an interview Thursday with the former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund to discuss the intelligence and security…
Two people were discovered last week to be living on the roof of the Lillian P. Hussey Elementary School in…
Rep. Jared Golden (D) of Maine’s Second Congressional District took over as a co-chair of the Blue Dog Coalition earlier…
Portland Police announced Wednesday that they are investigating the death of a 58-year-old man at a homeless encampment in the…
Nurses and other health care workers at MaineGeneral Health, one of Maine’s largest healthcare providers, were unceremoniously fired two years…
Speak Up for Life, a pro-life organization run by Rep. Laurel Libby (R-Auburn), has decided today against pursuing a People’s…
Maine’s Republican U.S. Senator Susan Collins sent a letter Tuesday to the Department of Education Secretary Miguel Cardona expressing her…
The city of Portland has experienced massive increases in spending to accommodate migrants seeking asylum and residents experiencing homelessness, but…
The Maine Municipal Association (MMA) is hosting a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Cohort Program aimed at providing “a more…
Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability James Comer (R-Ky.) released a third bank records memorandum Wednesday which…
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Wednesday the suspension of State Attorney Monique Worrell of the 9th Judicial Circuit for dereliction…
Maine’s second largest labor union is considering illegal tactics, including tactics that could temporarily shut down state government, to gain…
This story by Michael Graham was originally published by the NH Journal and is republished here with permission. When Donald…
The Maine Department of Public Safety provided an update to a July shooting in Lewiston that resulted in the deaths…
On Monday, Maine State Police Troopers from the Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Unity and Southern Field Troop apprehended two fugitives wanted…
Following a tense Maine School Administrative District 51 (MSAD #51) board meeting in July that was adjourned after a parent…
In a letter sent Tuesday to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey (D) declared a state of…
Maine is now on a path toward adopting vehicle emissions regulations akin to those currently on the books in California…
An alliance of groups representing New England’s fishermen is highlighting scientific research that suggests offshore wind development could have “population-scale…
Rising costs and logistical issues have led to a series of delays in recent weeks for at least 10 offshore…
The Maine State Government’s “Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging Specialist” told the Chronicle of Higher Education last year that libraries…
In an interview this weekend with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, NBC Reporter Dasha Burns falsely characterized efforts by state-level Democrats…
Maine’s Democratic House leadership blamed “older white guys” in their party for opposition to Gov. Janet Mills’ late-term abortion bill…
Portland Police announced Monday the arrest of a Lewiston man over the weekend in connection with two incidents at the…
The Maine Department of Health and Human Services began “unwinding” MaineCare’s 400,000-plus enrollment two months ago by “redetermining” all recipients’…
Eighty-seven-year-old retired teacher and Brunswick resident Marjorie Perkins fended off an assault by a teenage home invader, and then fed…
Data available from the Maine Commission on Governmental Ethics and Election Practices reveals what organizations are spending the most money…
Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey released a letter Friday sent to Chief Jared Mills of the Augusta Police Department announcing…
“The allegations against Hunter Biden are serious, and they do deserve the same kind of in-depth investigation, particularly since in…
Chair of the House Judiciary Committee Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) shared newly subpoenaed internal notes of meetings between Facebook executives…
In the final installment of a three-part interview series with former Trump lawyer John Eastman, Chairman of the Board of…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills signed an executive order Wednesday intended to establish a new migrant resettlement office, telling the Portland…
As illegal crossings over the southern border surge and Maine reckons with a migrant crisis of its own, the U.S.…
The ACLU of Maine is calling upon the owners of Cyr Bus Line to end its practice of allowing U.S.…
Fitch Ratings downgraded the U.S. debt rating on Tuesday from the highest rating of AAA to AA+, citing “expected fiscal…
The Maine Department of Transportation (Maine DOT) reportedly plans to shut down a portion of the Park and Ride on…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills signed an executive order Wednesday that will lead to the creation of a new state office…
Maine Sen. Susan Collins was among 15 Republican U.S. Senators who voted in favor of the “Bipartisan Safer Communities Act”…
Ousted Fox News primetime star Tucker Carlson released an interview Wednesday with Devon Archer, an ex-business partner of Hunter Biden…
Advocates for a ballot question this fall that would lead the state to take control of Maine’s power grid have…
The following story is from NHJournal.com and is re-published here with permission. To read the original or see other New…
The Daily Caller News Foundation – Reagan Reese on August 2, 2023 The American Civil Liberties Union sued a Missouri…
The Daily Caller News Foundation – Mary Lou Masters on August 2, 2023Donors made contributions to a dark money group…
The FBI announced Tuesday that its “Operation Cross Country” identified and rescued 200 victims of sex trafficking. The operation, which…
New York City Mayor Eric Adams has called on the Biden Administration to control the border and provide more aid…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills approved on Thursday a bill to authorize and fund the construction of a port on the…
Public records from Maine’s child welfare agency show multiple child protective services employees were disciplined, but not fired, for failures…
After purchasing a bankrupt Bed Bath and Beyond last month, Overstock – also known as Overstock.Com – has officially relaunched…
A state commission created to address “structural racism” in Maine prohibited Mainers of “dominant racial groups” from speaking or asking…
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) announced Saturday that he has sent an official criminal referral against Dr. Anthony Fauci to the…
An insider at MaineHealth, the state’s largest healthcare organization, is sounding the alarm on the frequency with which transgender children…
Hunter Biden’s former best friend and business partner Devon Archer sat down Monday for a closed-door transcribed testimony before the…
On Friday, Gov. Janet Mills (D) signed LD 1364 into law, officially establishing a working group to study the potential…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills sent an email Friday letting subscribers know that she signed a bill that will allow 16-year-olds…
Last week city officials in Sanford suspended a syringe exchange program and cleaned up a homeless encampment at Heritage Crossing…
President Joe Biden made his first visit as president to Maine on Friday, giving a short speech at an Auburn…
Maine State Sen. Eric Brakey (R-Androscoggin), one of a select few Republican state officials invited to President Joe Biden’s event…
In her most recent public speaking opportunity since she told her supporters to “storm the capitol” on Juneteenth, Maine House…
The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Constitution and Limited Government held a hearing Thursday on “the dangers and due process violations…
Socialist Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders on Thursday endorsed a ballot question campaign that would in theory force the owners of…
When a flyer produced by the Maine Attorney General’s Office on the state’s abortion laws became politically problematic for Gov.…
Following her veto last week of LD 398 – “An Act to Make Agricultural Workers and Other Related Workers Employees…
A plea deal that would have allowed President Joe Biden’s son Hunter to avoid jail time for two misdemeanor tax…
The Office of the Maine Attorney General announced Wednesday that they have charged a deputy superintendent of two state correctional…
President Joe Biden will visit Maine on Friday to tout his economic policies, which the White House is trying to…
An official White House transcript appears to differ with President Joe Biden’s Tuesday remark that his administration had “ended cancer…
Note: If you’re an employee of the state of Maine who would like to share information with the Maine Wire,…
In his first visit to Maine as president, Joe Biden is slated to visit the state Friday as part of…
Hunter Biden brought in $1.3 million selling his paintings at his September 2021 New York art gallery debut, and one…
In a Monday Wall Street Journal op-ed, Republican Senator from Utah and former presidential candidate Mitt Romney called on GOP…
Harvard Law School professor Mark Tushnet published an open letter alongside San Francisco State University professor Aaron Belkin urging President…
State and federal initiatives to make home heating and cooling more environmentally friendly appear to be at odds with recent…
Texas Governor Greg Abbott sent a letter to President Biden Monday to counter threats from the U.S. Department of Justice…
Tom Klingenstein, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the California-based conservative think tank the Claremont Institute, has released the…
A massive joint-agency search for a missing paddle boarder on Edgartown Great Pond near former President Barack Obama’s Martha’s Vineyard…