Maine Gov. Janet Mills on Friday signed into law her proposed legislation to expand background checks to advertised firearm sales…
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Following a three-month investigation, the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency (MDEA) and Portland Police Department on Thursday announced the arrest of…
Last week saw more illegal Chinese marijuana grow sites being busted in Somerset and Franklin Counties. Somerset Sheriff Dale Lancaster…
Portland city officials on Tuesday responded to a disturbing video published this week by a Bayside neighborhood landlord showing rampant…
A controversial “transgender trafficking” bill officially became Maine law on Monday after receiving the signature of Gov. Janet Mills. “This…
The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Maine CDC) is calling for increased regular testing for HIV statewide for…
Authorities discovered a “massive marijuana grow” operation Wednesday at a farmhouse on Route 133 in Jay, according to the Franklin…
Somerset County Sheriff Dale Lancaster’s office took down yet another illegal cannabis cultivation and processing hub on Tuesday located in…
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CBS News Investigations ran a segment Tuesday highlighting the proliferation of Asian transnational criminal organizations throughout rural Maine, including an…
The Democrat-controlled Maine State Legislature elected on Patriot’s Day — the holiday that commemorates some of the first battles in…
U.S. Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) called out President Joe Biden’s (D) Fiscal Year 2025 budget for not doing “nearly enough…
The extreme left-wing bias of NPR’s new CEO has added to the controversy surrounding the taxpayer-funded outlet, which began when…
Lawmakers in Augusta voted nearly-unanimously this past Friday to advance a bill guaranteeing Mainers the right to repair their electronic…
Gov. Janet Mills (D) signed into law a bill last week repealing limitations on municipal property tax collection that have…
Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey on Friday announced that he was filed a lawsuit against Monsanto alleging that the agricultural…
The Maine House of Representatives voted late Wednesday evening to advance a bill that would institute legal protections for those…
Republican candidate in the 2024 primary race in Maine’s 2nd Congressional District Rep. Austin Theriault (R-Fort Kent) has accused his…
A former educator in Maine School Administrative District 75 (MSAD 75), who resigned following the district’s adoption of a “transgender…
The Falmouth High School Civil Rights Team on Tuesday gave a presentation on the Falmouth Public Schools’ recently adopted “Transgender…
Early Saturday morning, when most Mainers were asleep or recovering from a blizzard which knocked out power across the state,…
A proposed amendment enshrining abortion in Maine’s state constitution failed Wednesday to gain enough support for final passage in the…
The Biden Administration announced Monday that it is pushing forward with a plan to cancel an additional tranche of student…
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Wednesday that the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), the key…
Maine’s taxpayer-funded racial equity commission has revised their public comment policy to disallow input from the public during meetings of…
Amid the snow-covered debate on Friday over a bill that would allow the state to seize firearms from Maine residents…
In an uncommon display of evenhandedness in their coverage, several corporate media outlets have reported on the disinformation tactics used…
On Tuesday, the Maine Legislature sustained Gov. Janet Mills’ veto of a bill that would have placed restrictions on the…
When Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman released their new book, “White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy,” the publication…
A position on the state’s Right to Know Advisory Committee meant to represent advocates for Mainers’ freedom of access to…
Democratic lawmakers in Augusta are plowing forward Friday with an attempt to impose a so-called “Red Flag” gun control bill,…
A new study out of the Netherlands, which surveyed children over a 15-year period, showed that the vast majority of…
Maine’s Judiciary Committee is pushing forward with its plan to hold a public hearing on a controversial gun-control bill as…
Hermon’s school superintendent Micah Grant unexpectedly announced his resignation on Monday after years of controversy. Grant, who has attributed his…
Former Republican President Donald Trump announced on Monday that he posted the $175 million bond set in the New York…
Recently, people from Joe Rogan to U.N. diplomats have argued that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, with Rogan going so far as to…
After a nearly two-week delay, the Maine House of Representatives on Tuesday once again took up consideration of a proposed…
The Independent Commission tasked by Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) with investigating the facts and circumstances surrounding the Oct. 25,…
The Democratic effort to amend Maine’s Constitution to protect the abortion industry is on life-support after failing to get a…
Michigan’s Democrat Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced on Wednesday that the state’s Palisades nuclear power plant, which closed down in 2022,…
Maine’s Republican Senator, Susan Collins (R-Maine) said that she cannot support former President Donald Trump’s bid for a second term,…
The Maine Supreme Court has ruled that the state’s longstanding ban on Sunday hunting is constitutional despite the recently-enacted Right…
An Auburn couple is facing multiple drug trafficking charges after police found $24,000 worth of illegal drugs at a woman’s…
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) signed a bill Wednesday meant to combat the growing national scourge of squatting — that is,…
A drug trafficking investigation involving the South Portland Police Department and the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency (MDEA) led to the…
Sam Bankman-Fried, founder of the fraud-ridden cryptocurrency exchange FTX, was sentenced to 25 years in prison Thursday, the culmination of…
The Permanent Commission on the Status of Racial, Indigenous, & Tribal Populations (PCRITP), which was established in 2019 by the…
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers stationed at the Eagle Pass, Texas Port of Entry intercepted over $1.1 million…
Portland Police held a press conference Tuesday afternoon to announce that their investigation of a drive-by shooting involving two vehicles…
The Sagadahoc County Budget Committee is considering a spending proposal that would bring about a massive 15 percent tax increase…
The liberal non-profit New Venture Fund, the largest subsidiary of the leftist dark-money organization Arabella Advisors, will be forced to…
A cargo ship flying a Singapore flag crashed into a support beam of the 1.6 mile long Francis Scott Key…
Maine law enforcement has executed three search warrants in March on suspected illegal marijuana cultivation sites throughout northern Maine, the…
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…
Last month, Maine lawmakers killed a bill that would have stopped a regressive energy program and lowered energy costs for…
The City of Portland has released a 2023 Year in Review Homeless Services report detailing the city’s response to the…
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…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills on Thursday signed into law a bill that will expand the availability of public defenders in…
Amid concerns that cracks are appearing in the U.S. economy, U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell is reassuring Americans that…
During a hearing in the Senate Armed Forces Committee, U.S. Sen. Angus King (I-Maine), a top proponent of sending billions…
The federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced Wednesday that it has adopted the “strongest-ever pollution standards for cars” which are…
The U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) ruled on Tuesday that Texas could begin enforcing a law which would allow state law…
The Maine Democratic Socialists of America (Maine DSA) and the Maine Direct Action Solidarity Fund has launched a crowdfunding campaign…
Lawmakers in the Maine House of Representatives have postponed consideration of a proposal to sign onto the National Popular Vote…
U.S. Senator from Maine Angus King (I) has joined a group of his Democrat colleagues in sponsoring the “Right to…
The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication is requiring students to take a course on “Diversity and Civility”…
Gov. Janet Mills (D-Maine) issued a proclamation last week commemorating “Equal Pay Day,” while her female staff makes less than…
The City of Portland has posted job advertisements for two new full-time case manager positions in their migrant Resettlement Program,…
The death of Oklahoma high schooler who identified as “non-binary” caused an uproar among left-wing activists and media, with many…
Democratic Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (ME-01) has been a staunch supporter of sending U.S. aid to Ukraine aid in their effort…
The State of Maine may soon begin taxing subscriptions to streaming services such as Netflix, Hulu, and Spotify. The proposed…
Washington, D.C. – Key U.S. intelligence officials have faced a series of probing questions from lawmakers this week, including Maine…
The U.S. House of Representatives has voted in favor of a bill that would ban TikTok from all devices in…
Big Picture: A major bill that would overhaul Maine’s marijuana regulations is moving through the State House, with $100s of…
Democratic Maine Congressman Jared Golden (CD-2) voted in favor of a House Resolution Wednesday condemning the Biden administration’s immigration policies…
Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey says he is “dismayed” at the condemnation of a proposed bill that would expand legal…
The Legislature is considering a bill that would give state lawmakers the final say on the Maine Board of Environmental…
Lawmakers in Augusta are considering the repeal of a 2005 law placing limits on the degree to which municipalities can…
Health care providers in the United Kingdom will stop routinely prescribing puberty blockers to minors diagnosed with gender dysphoria, the…
Cumberland County District Attorney Jackie Sartoris joined Matt Gagnon on WGAN Morning News Monday to defend her recently adopted policy…
An effort by Democratic state lawmakers to establish Maine as a “sanctuary state” for child sex-change procedures and late-term abortions…
Authorities in Piscataquis County have cracked down two more illegal marijuana operations, executing two search warrants on March 7 that…
USA Today published an article blaming Chaya Raichik, operator of the anti-woke X account Libs of TikTok, for the bomb…
Maine’s State House was evacuated Friday morning following a bomb threat emailed to one legislator, which was quickly determined to…
Lewiston mass shooter Robert Card, who killed 18 people and injured more than a dozen others in two Oct. 25,…
Leaked internal documents from the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), the leading global medical body behind developing “standards…
Maine’s new Director of Labor Standards wants to change the state’s Bureau of Labor Standards (BLS) into an enforcement agency,…
Although incumbent President Joe Biden handily won Maine’s Democratic presidential primary election on Super Tuesday, he appears to have been…
Maine Senator Angus King, a self-described independent who caucuses with Democrats, has introduced legislation that would ban energy exports, which…
Maine Public, a nonprofit news outlet funded in large part by taxpayer dollars, published a perfunctory article Tuesday covering the…
Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley has announced that she is dropping out of the Republican presidential race after former…
Back before it much mattered — ie. when he was just a senator from Delaware, just the chairman of the…
Lawmakers in Augusta held a public hearing Tuesday for a bill that would institute legal protections for those seeking or…
Maine legislators are considering a bill that would mark yet another step in Maine’s quest to adopt policies that accord…
HEARING – Tuesday @ 1:00 pm – Cross Building Room 220 Maine lawmakers will consider Tuesday a proposal to drastically…
When speaking about the issue of large numbers of migrants coming to Maine, Portland Mayor Mark Dion told Matt Gagnon…
After SCOTUS handed Shenna Bellows a resounding defeat today in Trump’s ballot eligibility case, Maine Wire Editor-in-Chief Steve Robinson paid…