The Mills Administration’s spending via state contracts has come under increasing scrutiny in light of Democratic State Auditor Matt Dunlap’s…
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Acting on behalf of a concerned citizen, a state representative has introduced an amendment to the Maine Constitution prohibiting any…
Maine lawmakers are divided over a proposal to do away with the cost-of-living adjustment for the state’s minimum wage. Under…
The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (DIFW) moved quickly on Friday to rescind a policy that the Trump…
Rep. Laurel Libby (R-Auburn) may face daunting challenges from the majority of Maine’s legislature, and even the state’s attorney general,…
Detectives from the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office arrested three people early Friday morning after they were allegedly caught tearing down…
Maine’s Regional School Unit (RSU) 24 school board voted on Tuesday to join the Hodgdon School Board in defying Gov.…
During the bad old days of the Soviet Union, a state official could legally shirk punishment by pretending to sick…
Once again, a Maine transgender-identifying male athlete seized victory over girls at a high school track meet on Friday, as…
A Dominican national who in 2022 was one of a dozen people charged in a major drug trafficking bust in…
Former two-term Republican Governor Paul LePage has filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission and is expected to announce his…
Nearly 40 illegal aliens present in Maine without authorization and living in the U.S. illegally were detained in communities across…
It appears Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey has been taking counsel from the late troubadour Kenny Rogers, who famously sang:…
The attorney who filed a recently dismissed professional misconduct complaint against Kennebec County District Attorney Maeghan Maloney (D) has landed…
A group of men charged with running an illegal marijuana farm in rural Maine have extensive ties to a Chinese…
A Guilford-based business is touting a simple trick to avoid disruptions caused by President Donald Trump’s tariffs and trade negotiations:…
Maine’s Democrat-controlled legislature has approved a measure that will create a $12M fund for the benefit of Maine’s abortion clinic…
The Maine Board of Overseers of the Bar has dismissed a professional misconduct complaint against Kennebec and Somerset County District…
Pope Francis passed away early Monday morning at the age of 88 after a 12-year pontificate, just hours after making…
Democratic U.S. Rep. Jared Golden (ME-CD2) is courting Maine’s “No Labels” third-party as speculation builds over when he’ll announce what…
Tarlan Ahmadov stepped down as director of the Maine Office of New Americans in early April — just three months…
U.S. Attorney General (AG) Pam Bondi, joined by women’s sports advocate Riley Gaines, Maine Rep. Laurel Libby (R-Auburn), Secretary of…
When the head-turning girlfriend of former New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick takes the stage in this year’s Miss…
The distribution of Maine’s four presidential electoral votes was up for grabs in Augusta Monday morning, as lawmakers on the…
As the deadline set in a letter of impasse the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights had sent…
Gov. Janet Mills (D-Maine) is poised to ignore the April 11 deadline set by the U.S. Department of Education (DOE)…
Bowdoin College, an elite liberal arts college on the coast of Maine, is coming under national scrutiny for its handling…
A Sudanese refugee with multiple prior convictions in Maine, including criminal threatening with a firearm, assault, driving while intoxicated and…
As Maine’s Department of Corrections (DoC) loses federal funding for transferring one transgender-identifying male murderer to a women’s prison, the…
Note: This story was updated after publication to include comments from a law firm representing Metrc who asked to be…
President Donald J. Trump has issued a 31-page manifesto, “National Strategy to End the Use of Paper Straws,” aiming to…
Three people were arrested and over 250 grams of cocaine were seized by police on Sunday after a search Portland…
Maine has been found to have the fourth highest total tax burden in the country, according to a new study…
The most aggressive sheriff in Maine notched another victory in Maine’s ongoing fight against Chinese organized crime Tuesday, executing a…
Following a Maine Wire investigation into the man Gov. Janet Mills (D) tapped to run her controversial migrant resettlement office,…
A new bill from Rep. Gary Drinkwater (R-Milford) could give Mainers a better sense of how much of their tax…
An Auburn Democrat has introduced a bill that would prevent Maine voters in the northern, more rural part of the…
Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, who just this week announced her candidacy for governor, has “serious concerns” about the…
The U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce has raised serious concerns about antisemitism at Bowdoin College, demanding detailed…
Secretary of State Shenna Bellows (D) revealed Thursday — unintentionally — why President Donald Trump is almost certain to prevail…
Republican lawmakers are taking steps to make Maine’s new Paid Family and Medical Leave Program voluntary. Currently, all employers and…
The Trump Administration’s multiple probes into Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) and her cabinet agencies have now expanded to include…
Maine’s Democratic legislators have returned once again to one of their favorite legislative priorities: cracking down on Second Amendment rights.…
Republican lawmakers in Maine have proposed an amendment to the state’s constitution that would prohibit the governor from calling the…
The Portland Public School Board will be considering changes to its multiple equity-related policies in order to avoid an appearance…
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday cracking down on voter fraud through a slew of election integrity…
The legislature’s Committee on Labor held a public hearing on Tuesday for a bill from Rep. Valli Geiger (D-Rockland) to…
The Maine Department of Economic and Community Development (DECD) has sponsored a pilot computer programming training project specifically targeted to…
A group of Maine House Democrats is working to enshrine the commemoration of the January 2021 Capitol protests into law…
Maine House Democrats voted again on Tuesday to impose controversial rules on Rep. Laurel Libby (R-Auburn) that deprive her of…
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Administration for Children and Families (ACF) issued a memo on Monday…
A former student at Bonny Eagle High School in Standish is facing two counts of gross sexual assault for allegedly…
Tarlan Ahmadov, the director of the Maine Office of New Americans (ONA) who has recently faced calls for his resignation…
A multi-day Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operation in the Boston, Massachusetts area last week led to the arrests of…
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has suspended funding for migrant shelters as it investigates possible misuse of the funds…
An illegal alien from Uganda who was released into the U.S. under the Biden administration after trying to enter illegally…
Three Dominican nationals were arrested Wednesday morning and charged in connection to an alleged conspiracy to distribute cocaine and crack…
As Maine faces a potentially substantial loss of federal education funding for refusing to comply with one of President Donald…
After failing to secure a $120 million MaineCare bailout package at the State house last week, the Democrat-controlled State Legislature…
Rep. Kristen Cloutier (D-Lewiston) wants to put tampons in high school and middle school boys’ bathrooms with a new bill…
The young Maine child who was given a controversial and experimental Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA injection at a public school without his…
The Maine Democrats’ failed to advance a $120 million MaineCare bailout plan after Democratic lawmakers rejected modest welfare reforms proposed…
The City of Portland will be saddled with providing services at the city’s 179-bed shelter for single asylum-seeking migrants after…
Rep. Jared Golden (ME-CD2) explained why he was the only Democrat in the House to vote on Tuesday in favor…
A Maine church embroiled in a legal dispute with the Hermon School System has claimed that Drummond Woodsum—the law firm…
Maine Wire Editor-in-Chief Steve Robinson contributed to this report. UPDATE: The Maine Wire has learned the likely explanation for the…
Rep. Laurel Libby (R-Auburn) filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against Maine House Speaker Ryan Fecteau in the U.S. District Court…
The Maine American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has issued a statement denouncing the use of a New Hampshire federal prison…
Rockland Police on Monday announced the arrest of an 18-year-old accused of stealing $40,000 from a vehicle in February while…
The New Hampshire State Police arrested a Somersworth, NH, man, Shawn P. Weiner Sr., 35, on Sunday after receiving numerous…
A new bill from Rep. James White (R-Guilford) would allow adults over the age of 21 who possess a concealed…
A group of Maine Democratic lawmakers have introduced a bill that would allow municipalities to adopt a local option sales…
U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have revealed new details about the Chinese national now facing deportation after being charged…
Ever since President Donald Trump went full Don Rickles on Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) at the White House, Maine…
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)’s Office of Civil Rights has found Maine to be in violation…
Sen. Richard Bennett (R-Oxford) sponsored a bill to combat the state’s opioid crisis by creating overdose prevention centers that give…
Rep. Deqa Dhalac (D-South Portland) outside Shusha, Nagorno-Kabarakh
An illegal alien from Ecuador was arrested in Maine on Sunday for operating under the influence (OUI), and is now…
Multiple Maine law enforcement agencies responded on Tuesday to a property at 199 Middle Road in Fairfield that has long…
On Thursday, Attorney General Pam Bondi initiated “Phase One” of a high-profile campaign promise from President Donald Trump: releasing the…
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday aimed at “making America healthy again,” requiring increased disclosure from healthcare providers…
Nearly 30 percent of Maine’s government-run school districts will conceal children’s health information from parents as it relates to gender…
President Donald Trump announced a new “gold card” program on Tuesday, allowing wealthy foreigners to purchase “green card” permanent resident…
One Bangor Democrat has now proposed exempting new cars from Maine’s annual vehicle safety inspections, making the legislative push to…
Supplemental appropriations took center stage Tuesday afternoon as lawmakers debated what has become a highly controversial piece of legislation. By…
The U.S. Department of Justice has warned Maine officials that it is prepared to take legal action if the state…
Rep. Richard Campbell (R-Orrington) introduced a bill to bar males from women’s sports at Maine schools last summer and again…
A new petition on Change.org to recall Gov. Janet Mills (D-Maine) from office has already garnered over 13,000 signatures just…
Two Democratic lawmakers are attempting to prevent Maine business owners from having a say in when their employees take leave…
The Maine Democratic Party issued a rare off-cycle fundraising text message on Monday, asking recipients to donate money in support…
The owner of a massage parlor in Rockland who last week was arrested and charged with sex trafficking is now…
Gov. Janet Mills’ (D-Maine) Chief of Staff, Jeremy Kennedy, swore at White House Director of Intergovernmental Affairs Alex Meyers on…
The former SpaceX engineer who recently announced his intention to run as an unaffiliated candidate against Republican U.S. Sen. Susan…
The president of the Armenian Cultural Association of Maine on Thursday sent a letter to Gov. Janet Mills calling for…
The owner of a Rockland massage parlor police believe to be tied to organized crime in New York was arrested…
The Maine Secretary of State’s Office pressured Meta, the parent company of Facebook, to remove posts that they flagged as…
The amount of money taxpayers are spending on Suboxone prescriptions for individuals enrolled in MaineCare has surged to $26.2 million…
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), chair of the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee, suggested during a recent interview with Politico that President…
Several members of Maine’s Armenian community are calling for the resignation of the director of the Maine Office of New…
Maine lawmakers may soon be calling on the United States to convene an Article V convention to amend the nation’s…