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A Northfield, New Hampshire man will spend six years in prison after pleading guilty to using the U.S. Postal Service…
When homeless encampments flourished throughout Maine’s largest city in 2023 and 2024, Maine’s newspaper reporters were eager to tell the…
Tired of your straw decomposing before you’re halfway through your drink? Sick of only being able to buy LED bulbs?…
The Maine Drug Enforcement Agency (MDEA) executed a high-risk search warrant at a Portland apartment building on Tuesday and arrested…
Elon Musk’s visit to the Oval Office on Tuesday was no simple courtesy call, a new executive order setting strict…
Border Patrol agents recently apprehended five individuals who illegally crossed the U.S.-Canada border near the northernmost Border Patrol station in…
“Halleluja. Fantastic News. Praise be to Donald Trump” — McFaul Former ambassador Michael McFaul, who served under former President Barack…
U.S. Senator from Maine Angus King (I) is renewing his push for his “Kids Off Social Media Act,” a bipartisan…
If you think it’s hard running Maine’s biggest embattled newspaper chain, try doing it while you’re also flipping two eggs…
A judge’s order blocking the Trump administration’s spending freeze is “intolerable judicial overreach,” the Department of Justice (DOJ) argued Monday…
New Hampshire State Police arrested two Methuen, Mass., residents on Monday during a routine traffic stop after discovering fentanyl, cocaine,…
After reaching the next-to-last step in passing a $120 million supplemental spending package, Democratic leaders put off a final vote…
A defense contractor that supplies parts for American military aircraft and advises the U.S. government on supply chain security is…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills and her Democratic allies in the Legislature were poised Monday afternoon to once again invoke an…
Fifty years ago, the freshman town manager of Old Orchard Beach angered a state official over the way he was…
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth issued a Department of Defense (DoD)-wide memo on Friday, officially banning the recruitment of new…
As promised while when route to the Super Bowl on Sunday afternoon, U.S. President Donald Trump announced increased tariffs on…
Maine Attorney General (AG) Aaron Frey signed a confidential agreement with Democrat Attorneys General just weeks after the 2024 election…
Republican U.S. Senator from Maine Susan Collins has stated that she will be voting to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr.…
Three people were arrested are facing a slew of narcotics and other charges after police found methamphetamine, fentanyl, a handgun…
A Maine Democratic lawmaker made a Facebook post for Black History Month celebrating Assata Shakur, an FBI’s most wanted terrorist…
On her second day as Maine’s new public advocate – the official responsible for representing the interests of low-income ratepayers…
Does it make sense to get rid of cents? President Donald Trump ordered U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent…
A Maine Democratic lawmaker has introduced a bill that would launch a two-year, state-funded pilot program to provide inmates recently…
Portland Police announced Monday morning that they are investigating two deaths in the wooded area behind Hannaford on Riverside Street.…
President Donald Trump proclaimed the first ever Gulf of America Day from Air Force One on Sunday while en route…
A traffic stop following a police chase in South Portland early Saturday morning led to the arrest of two Massachusetts…
David Asher, a long-time U.S. advisor on national security, appeared on Canada’s state-funded CBC news on Sunday to defend Trump’s…
Southern Maine residents tired of getting woken up by trash haulers clanking dumpsters may finally get some sleep soon, at…
The head of U.S. Border Patrol operations in Maine’s Houlton sector, which covers encompasses the entire state, coastline and U.S.-Canada…
A group of Republican lawmakers are looking to end the controversial practice of same-day voter registration in Maine. Rep. Barbara…
As Maine faces an impending half-billion dollar budget shortfall, and Gov. Janet Mills (D-Maine) considers a flurry of tax increases…
Maine lawmakers are slated to consider creating protections for workers that will limit how American businesses can use emerging monitoring…
The annual tradition of visiting an auto mechanic to get an inspection sticker could come to an end if a…
A well-connected New England media analyst says he’s “heard from serious people that substantial cuts may be coming” to the…
A Maine man who wanted to be buried in the town cemetery but was told there was no more room…
A Guatemalan national, who was previously deported three times from the U.S. and served a nearly six-year prison sentence in…
The Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) told 8 Investigates that a records request aimed at exposing the…
Democratic Maine Rep. Jared Golden urged his party to pump the brakes on their reflexive, hair-trigger responses to Republican advances…
In the face of a new executive order issued by President Donald Trump on Wednesday imposing significant penalties on schools…
Over a year after the tragic mass shooting that rocked Lewiston in October 2023, scrutiny has emerged over how one…
A man previously arrested for a stabbing in Portland is now being accused of trying to grab, kiss and give…
The Mills administration is seeking an organization to award $300,000 to administer the state’s “social equity program,” a taxpayer-funded affirmative…
The Portland International Jetport has been ordered to stop cutting trees near the runways until authorities can determine whether the…
The South Portland Police announced late Thursday afternoon that they had arrested 20-year-old Ahmed Basheer Awad, who is suspected of…
An automotive trade association based out of Washington D.C. has sued Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey over the enforcement of…
Maine Attorney General Aaron M. Frey has joined a coalition of 12 state attorneys general in opposing the U.S. Department…
Republican Georgia Rep. Mike Collins reintroduced legislation Thursday to criminalize protests that block highways. Collins’ Safe Passage on Interstates Act…
California Democratic Rep. Jared Huffman protested the National Prayer Breakfast Thursday, claiming it violates the separation between church and state.…
The Kennebec County Democratic Committee pulled its support from a planned protest outside the State Capitol in Augusta on Wednesday…
New Hampshire State Rep. Travis Corcoran (R-Weare) is working to pass a bill through the state’s Republican-controlled legislature that would…
A Maine-based nonprofit funded entirely by U.S. taxpayers is using its social media presence to teach illegal aliens tips and…
Maine may gradually increase its current limit on charter schools if lawmakers pass a Republican-led bill introduced in late January.…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills’ (D) Office of Policy Innovation and the Future (GOPIF) is partnering with a Brunswick-based nonprofit organization…
The Maine Trust for Local News, already reeling from a string of executive resignations, is now losing the publisher of…
The Trump Administration’s rapid moves to impose fiscal restraint on the sprawling federal bureaucracy will hit at least one governmental…
Police have identified but are still attempting to locate the individual suspected of shooting another person inside the Maine Mall…
The Trump administration is reportedly developing a plan to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria, marking an end to the decade-long…
By choosing the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) as its first target for demolition, Elon Musk’s DOGE made a…
As Elon Musk moves to shutter the U.S. Agency for International Development, the agency’s support for the discovery of novel…
The Maine Legislature’s Judiciary Committee held public hearings on Wednesday regarding two bills that would bring Maine’s public record laws…
Local officials in Bangor, Lewiston, and Portland were reluctant to say whether they would comply with deportations promised by President…
Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey on Wednesday joined with the attorneys general of 14 other states in issuing a statement…
More than 20,000 federal employees have announced their resignations in response to President Donald Trump’s severance offer, which would allow…
Springing forward and falling back may soon be a thing of the past in Maine if lawmakers advance either of…
U.S. Border Patrol agents in Caswell recently located and captured two Romanian nationals who illegally crossed the northern border into…
A Maine Republican lawmaker has introduced a bill that would classify political affiliation as a protected class under the Maine…
Standing next to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, U.S. President Donald Trump suggested on Tuesday evening that America take over…
The Senate confirmed former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi to lead President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) in a…
More than $1.3 billion in taxpayer funds from the Biden administration ended up helping groups that sponsored or committed terrorism.…
The Senate Intelligence Committee voted in favor of advancing Tulsi Gabbard’s nomination for Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tuesday. The…
El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele extended an offer to U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio during a Monday meeting that…
A contractor who’s suffered lengthy zoning delays on a $15 million Portland-area project is now wondering whether it’ll ever get…
A Maine State Police K9, Preacher, was killed in the line of duty on Monday night during a Portage Lake…
A federal jury in late January indicted three people for their alleged involvement in a massive 400-acre illegal marijuana cultivation…
Massachusetts authorities have finally arrested the 42-year-old illegal alien alleged to have incestuously raped his 14-year-old daughter multiple times in…
The Senate, in a bipartisan fashion, voted Monday evening to confirm fracking executive Chris Wright as secretary of Energy. Senators voted 59…
A bipartisan group of five New Hampshire state legislators put forward a bill calling on the federal government to declare…
A group of Democrats in the legislature, led by Rep. David Sinclair (D-Bath), put forward a radical criminal justice reform…
Speaker of the House Ryan Fecteau (D-Biddeford) and Senate President Mathea Elizabeth Larson Daughtry (D-Cumberland) will name members of special…
A bill introduced in the Maine Legislature by a Democratic lawmaker seeks to help alleviate the caseload on the state’s…
Lawmakers in Augusta heard arguments on Monday for and against a series of bills that would reform Maine’s campaign finance…
U.S. President Donald Trump and Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum spoke on Monday morning and forged a temporary agreement to delay…
Democratic Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (ME-01) on Monday published a thread on X outlining what steps Congress, federal courts and the…
A Republican lawmaker has proposed amending Maine’s constitution to clearly state that only United States citizens may vote in state…
Are you frustrated with the unorthodox was Mainers elect federal officials or do you think it works well? Members of…
American airstrikes targeted leaders of the Islamic State, or ISIS, in Somalia on Saturday and killed senior leaders of the…
A medical ambulance plane carrying a young child and her mother crashed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Friday night in a neighborhood…
Scores of green beanies lined the halls of the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Thursday. The forest green hats with…
Several of the tax increases and changes included in Gov. Janet Mills’ (D) proposed biennial budget are set to have…
One loophole in President Donald Trump’s executive order banning birthright citizenship could permit Chinese nationals, along with other non-citizens, to…
New Hampshire’s Republican-controlled Senate passed three bills on Thursday in party-line votes intended to combat illegal immigration and aid Immigration…
The U.S. Department of Education (DOE) launched an investigation on Tuesday into the Denver, Colorado Public Schools District for converting…
President Donald Trump’s Wednesday executive order combating radical gender ideology and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) education in public schools…
Democrat lawmakers in Augusta have introduced a bill that would impose a three percent sales tax on hotel rentals in…
“Jason” spoke broken English. But the energetic Chinese man communicated well enough to tell an HVAC tech from Lewiston-Auburn about…
A group of 29 Maine Republicans sent a letter to the state’s Department of Education (DOE), urging it to comply…
An effort is underway to give Maine citizens the right to elect their constitutional officers, including the Secretary of State,…
Army Reserve Major and former Maine National Guardsman Michael Gary lost his position in the Guard and faced multiple investigations…