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Penobscot Sheriff’s deputies responded to two alleged domestic violence incidents on Tuesday in separate towns within one hour of each…
Portland Public Health is expanding targeted outreach efforts after state health officials reported a sharp increase in new HIV diagnoses…
The top lobbyist for Maine’s lobstering community is again challenging claims the supply is being “overfished.” After a recent meeting…
A routine stop at a fast-food restaurant turned into a question of policy and principle this week after an Augusta…
Twenty House Republicans joined their Democratic colleagues Wednesday to rebuke the Trump administration on federal union organizing. The bipartisan legislation, spearheaded…
The top editor of the largest paper in northcentral Maine apparently feels forced to let you know their staff knows…
An incarcerated sex offender incurred an additional charge of witness tampering on Wednesday after he allegedly smuggled a letter out…
A Portland cable and internet-service provider is laying off 176 workers from its call center, transitioning their work to other…
A Democrat U.S. Senate contender from Maine is suddenly showing off a new suit, while taking a dig at a…
Federal regulators voted Thursday to extend a shutdown preventing New England fishermen from catching shrimp. New England fishermen, especially those…
New accounts from former Bates College classmates are raising serious questions about the past conduct and political character of Democratic…
Portland city officials have hired a national consulting firm to review the city’s 10-year-old inclusionary zoning ordinance amid growing criticism…
The Maine State Police will take over responsibility for the Capitol Police force, consolidating law enforcement operations at the State…
A Florida man was sentenced to two years in prison in the U.S. District Court in Bangor on Friday following…
The Maine Department of Labor (MDOL) announced on Wednesday a number of Subway sandwich shop locations throughout the state will…
A citizen’s initiative aimed at ending the sale and production of recreational cannabis in Maine can now begin collecting signatures…
Dustin Duren, sentenced to 45 years Thursday for blowing off his girlfriend’s head, apparently is quite satisfied with his fate.…
The Houlton Police Department arrested a man late last month after he was allegedly found distributing child pornography. [RELATED: Houlton…
Renys’ decision to close its Congress Street store on December 31 marks more than the end of a 15-year run…
York deputies arrested two wanted thieves in Lebanon on Wednesday after one was found hiding in a residence and the…
Maine’s unemployment rate held steady in September at 3.2 percent, a figure that remained unchanged from the previous month. Despite…
The Trump Administration has rolled out TrumpCard.gov, a new federal portal outlining the structure of the high-dollar immigration initiative known…
The Rockland Police Department arrested an Arkansas sex offender on Sunday for failing to comply with sex offender registration, less…
The nomination of Judge Andrew Benson to serve as U.S. Attorney for the District of Maine cleared a major hurdle…
A New York City man has admitted he carried out a years-long scheme that combined mortgage fraud and an illegal…
A Wood Road home was leveled Tuesday night after a fast-moving fire tore through the structure, prompting a multi-agency response…
An expensive new taxpayer-financed roundabout in Damariscotta was supposed to improve safety at a dangerous spot. But the only thing…
Having disastrously failed at a job promotion, ex-VP Kamala Harris is nonetheless trying to be stone-cold serious about her legacy.…
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sens. Susan Collins (R) and Angus King (I) of Maine on Wednesday announced their nominees to the…
The Federal Reserve enters its latest policy meeting under the heaviest political and economic pressure in years, with Chair Jerome…
The Sanford Police Department arrested an alleged robber on Sunday who reportedly stole from a Springvale 7-Eleven gas station six…
Getting her car fixed with federal trail-maintenance money gave prosecutors a hint she wasn’t operating on all cylinders. They ended…
The Brunswick Police Department busted two alleged poachers on Monday after they were discovered with two dead deer early in…
A new omnibus poll from Pan Atlantic Research, a Portland-based research company headed by former Maine Democratic Party chair Victoria…
Regional School Unit (RSU) 9 school board member Griffin Mayhew, 26, representing Wilton, died unexpectedly on Monday, just months after…
Regional School Unit 24 voted Tuesday night to reaffirm its policy requiring students to use bathrooms and compete on sports…
Sen. Susan Collins (R) and Sen. Angus King (I) announced Tuesday that ten Maine organizations will be receiving a combined…
The political firestorm surrounding Gateway Community Services, the Somali-run nonprofit accused of defrauding Maine’s Medicaid system, is rapidly escalating, and…
Bharat Awasarmol, 49, residing in New Jersey, pleaded guilty in federal court on Tuesday to fraud charges related to a…
Two out-of-state investment companies that are buying up trailer parks are among six nationwide under congressional scrutiny. The Joint Economic…
Australia has become the first country in the world to impose a nationwide ban blocking children under 16 from using…
Current Maine State Auditor Matt Dunlap, now running for the Second Congressional District House seat soon to be vacated by…
Another day in Lewiston brought yet another cascade of questions, contradictions, and controversies, from nonprofit leaders refusing to comment, to…
Portland’s Planning Board on Tuesday unanimously approved a 30-story tower that would become the tallest building in Maine, clearing the…
Cameron Clark, photo from Facebook
On Monday, a federal judge struck down President Donald Trump’s (R) Executive Order pausing wind energy projects that he signed…
The captain of a Vinalhaven-bound ferry had just left the Rockland dock when his crewmen suddenly told him he needed…
A new wave of fake federal agents is sweeping Maine, which now leads all U.S. states in scammer border cops…
U.S. Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) has reached out to members of the Trump Administration urging them to provide relief to…
Illegal border crossers who need sanctuary from U.S. limits on their conveniently discovered “freedoms” have a home in Rockland, Maine.…
A tense MSAD 72 school committee meeting Monday night erupted with calls for accountability after a seven-year-old special-needs student disappeared…
U.S. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) is partnering with Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) on new legislation aimed at reshaping Affordable Care…
An Androscoggin County man charged with fatally shooting a cat says he did so because the animal was clearly suffering…
Education Secretary Linda McMahon announced late last month that the Department of Education (DOE) will be outsourcing several of its…
A substitute teacher at Montello Elementary in Maine’s second-largest city is under fire after telling a room of third-graders that…
Led by Sen. Susan Collins (R) and Rep. Chellie Pingree (D), Maine’s Congressional delegation has joined together to introduce a…
Governor Janet Mills (D) will soon learn whether she’s really political bedfellows – even though odd ones – with the…
A tip about a suspicious vehicle led Old Orchard Beach police to a significant drug bust Saturday afternoon. Police officers…
Bangor hooligans were out in force to whine about the cost of preserving freedom on the eve U.S. remembering its…
State Sen. Matthew Harrington (R) is demanding immediate transparency from Gov. Janet Mills (D) after what he describes as a…
A man is facing kidnapping charges after a high-speed chase through New Hampshire. State troopers attempted a traffic stop Saturday…
A Westbrook man who allegedly murdered his neighbor is denying the charge. James Fowler, 48, pleaded not guilty Monday in…
An Androscoggin County man has been charged in connection with shooting and killing a cat, police said. Jake Cyr, 34,…
A growing chorus of frustrated Lewiston residents is demanding accountability from City Hall, accusing city leaders of failing to enforce…
Multiple national news outlets published reports on Monday citing whistle-blower allegations about fraud and corruption by the Maine-based Gateway Community…
A Maine man who admitted to gunning down a Westbrook couple as their children watched from the backseat has been…
Five people were arrested Thursday in connection with a months-long drug trafficking investigation in Livermore Falls, the Maine Drug Enforcement…
Bates College faculty have unanimously voted to delay a sweeping new mandatory curriculum on race, power, privilege, and colonialism, pushing…
An MSAD 72 elementary school student being transported to an out-of-district placement by a substitute van driver went missing for…
Lewiston residents will get a new primary in how the criminal justice process and local politics can intersect as a…
A Cumberland County judge has rejected the state’s push to impose a sweeping 500-foot buffer zone around the Planned Parenthood…
In a seismic move that has rattled Democrats and immigration activists nationwide, the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear…
As Lewiston plunges deeper into the scandal surrounding councilor-elect Iman Osman, attorney and Democratic legislative hopeful Kiernan Majerus-Collins is once…
The only Maine daily other than those owned by you know who says it has decided to ignore any news…
Kyle Lloyd, photo courtesy of the Skowhegan Police Department
A Republican candidate for governor is pushing back after the Maine Democratic State Committee accused him of racism in response…
The fallout from the indictment of City Councilor-elect and school committee appointee Iman Osman continued to spiral Friday, triggering a…
The board of the Spruce Mountain school district, or RSU 73, voted on Thursday night to stick with their amended…
An Iraqi national living unlawfully in the United States was arrested in Ellsworth after federal agents say he attempted to…
President Donald Trump scored another major political victory Thursday after the U.S. Supreme Court allowed Texas to move forward with…
Just three weeks after receiving one of France’s highest military honors, a decorated WWII veteran from Maine has died. Shay,…
Children in town of Hallowell, on the Western bank of the Kennebec River, are asking Maine Governor Janet Mills for…
In what authorities are calling a brazen and costly theft, a Falmouth oyster farmer has lost years of work and…
Democrats on Thursday proposed a three-year extension of the soon-to-expire enhanced Obamacare premium subsidies despite the measure’s near-certain failure to…
Democratic Virginia Sen. Mark Warner expressed bitterness on Thursday about President Donald Trump’s administration celebrating the capture of the man…
A political firestorm in Lewiston is intensifying as Councilor-elect Iman Osman, now indicted on theft-related charges, insists he will take…
Maine’s Revenue Forecast Committee delivered a fresh projection Monday showing state revenues continuing to climb over the next two fiscal…
The Maine State Fire Marshal is investigating a fatal fire at a Sumner home that was powered exclusively by solar…
Data shared by the Maine State Housing Authority shows that Mainers from the northern-most parts of the state have so…
The East-Central Maine version of liberal Portland, besieged like its southern big-sister city with rag-tag “homeless” encampments, is going high…
Beginning on January 1, Mainers who subscribe to streaming services like Netflix, Hulu, and Spotify may see a new charge…
A liberal political lobby announced Wednesday it’s going after Maine’s Angus King for going soft on President Trump. But in…
The Paris Police Department arrested an alleged homeless burglar on Wednesday, who had been arrested and released twice in November.…
The Rockland Police Department arrested a South Thomaston man on Tuesday after officers allegedly saw him hiding drug paraphernalia during…
A Lewiston man has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for illegally possessing a firearm, adding yet another…
Four members of the Lewiston School Committee on Thursday called for Ward 5 representative Iman Osman to resign following his…
The U.S. House of Representatives acted to combat the influence of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on American schools on…
Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows has joined eleven of her counterparts in sending a letter to the Department of…
If it seems Senate hopeful Janet Mills is stepping up her social-media campaign, there may be a reason. The Hermon…