The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday that total nonfarm payroll employment in March rose by 303,000, with the…
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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…
Maine lawmakers have approved a resolution establishing a Commission to study the extent to which housing voucher recipients in the…
On Thursday, the New York Post released a video showing a mob of illegal immigrants storming past border fencing and…
Independent Maine Sen. Angus King, alongside six of his colleagues, has introduced a bill that would allow U.S. Immigration and…
The South Portland City Council on Tuesday approved an order to spend nearly $15,000 to lease three new electric vehicles…
A Maine man has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for his role in a multistate methamphetamine trafficking conspiracy…
Amid concerns that cracks are appearing in the U.S. economy, U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell is reassuring Americans that…
The Maine Legislature’s Housing Committee has recommended that lawmakers reject a bill requiring the government to convene a stakeholder group…
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), alongside 16 states — including Maine — have filed a civil anti-trust lawsuit against…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills announced Wednesday that she has introduced legislation that would establish a minimum hourly wage for Maine…
Two men from the New York City metro area were charged Wednesday with burglarizing two Maine post offices and robbing…
The Maine Board of Environmental Protection (BEP) has officially rejected the controversial electric vehicle (EV) mandate that has been under…
A Westbrook man was sentenced to 18 years in prison Tuesday for sexually abusing a child for the purpose of…
A Brazilian illegal immigrant who fled to the U.S. after breaking out of prison in his own country for an…
Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey announced Tuesday that he has filed a civil rights complaint against a Harpswell father and…
New Hampshire has charged someone with murder in the death of an unborn child for the first time in the…
A 21-year-old Bangor woman is facing multiple felony drug trafficking charges after a two-month Maine Drug Enforcement Agency (MDEA) led…
Lawmakers in Augusta are considering a bill that has the potential to change how medical debt is handled in the…
Maine House Speaker Rachel Talbot Ross (D-Portland) has introduced a bill that would establish a state “social equity program” and…
The Maine Democratic Socialists of America (Maine DSA) and the Maine Direct Action Solidarity Fund has launched a crowdfunding campaign…
U.S. Senator from Maine Angus King (I) has joined a group of his Democrat colleagues in sponsoring the “Right to…
During a contentious interview with X CEO Elon Musk, former CNN reporter Don Lemon repeatedly denied that Diversity, Equity, and…
A billionaire Chinese national pleaded guilty Monday to a straw-donor campaign contribution scheme by which he made more than $10,000…
A Lewiston man is facing up to five years in prison after pleading guilty to sending racist death threats to…
Maine Lobstermen have been spared — for now — from the potentially devastating effects of offshore wind turbine development on…
The U.S. Supreme court ruled on Friday that members of the public can sue government officials who block them on…
Maine’s Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) has been providing worst-in-the-nation child welfare services, regularly making headlines for tragic…
The United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday morning in the case against a number of federal officials alleging…
The Biden administration released a map Friday of a two million acre Wind Energy Area (WEA) in the Gulf of…
Left-wing media outlets including MSNBC and the Associated Press, alongside the Biden Administration, have accused former President Donald Trump of…
The conservative group Courage is a Habit is continuing its fight against LD 227, the so-called “transgender trafficking” bill, which…
U.S. General revealed that thousands of drones have been crossing the southern border along with the millions of illegal immigrants…
A Portland man is facing 12 criminal charges after leading police on a 20-minute chase Sunday afternoon. Portland Police said…
In response to a rise in climate anxiety, particularly among young voters, politicians have made numerous “climate pledges” to transition…
The Independent Commission tasked by Maine Gov. Janet Mills with investigating the facts and circumstances surrounding the Oct. 25, 2023…
The death of Oklahoma high schooler who identified as “non-binary” caused an uproar among left-wing activists and media, with many…
A Bangor man who was found with drug paraphernalia and a firearm during a traffic stop pleaded guilty Friday in…
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Florida) announced on Friday that Florida Fish and Wildlife Officers apprehended a ship of Haitian potentially illegal…
A Portland High School student brought a BB gun to school Thursday morning, prompting a response from police, according to…
A Haitian migrant living in a hotel being used as an emergency shelter in Rockland, Massachusetts is being held without…
A California man has pleaded guilty to charges related to his role in a methamphetamine trafficking conspiracy in Downeast Maine.…