The legislature’s Committee on Labor held a public hearing on Tuesday for a bill from Rep. Valli Geiger (D-Rockland) to…
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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…
Travis Mills, a retired United States Army staff sergeant, motivational speaker and author, known for his advocacy for wounded veterans,…
When you run for office without the backing of a political party, it can seem like a steeper climb so…
Governor Janet Mills’ (D) Office of Policy, Innovation and the Future (GOPIF) announced on Friday thirteen new appointees for the…
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?…
A traffic stop following a police chase in South Portland early Saturday morning led to the arrest of two Massachusetts…
The head of U.S. Border Patrol operations in Maine’s Houlton sector, which covers encompasses the entire state, coastline and U.S.-Canada…
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 Guatemalan national, who was previously deported three times from the U.S. and served a nearly six-year prison sentence in…
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…
The Mills administration is seeking an organization to award $300,000 to administer the state’s “social equity program,” a taxpayer-funded affirmative…
The South Portland Police announced late Thursday afternoon that they had arrested 20-year-old Ahmed Basheer Awad, who is suspected of…
Police have identified but are still attempting to locate the individual suspected of shooting another person inside the Maine Mall…
The Maine Legislature’s Judiciary Committee held public hearings on Wednesday regarding two bills that would bring Maine’s public record laws…
A Lynn man admitted in federal court Monday to running a large-scale drug operation that peddled fentanyl-laced pills disguised as…
Springing forward and falling back may soon be a thing of the past in Maine if lawmakers advance either of…
A federal jury in late January indicted three people for their alleged involvement in a massive 400-acre illegal marijuana cultivation…
A medical ambulance plane carrying a young child and her mother crashed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Friday night in a neighborhood…
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) results for 2024 were released on Wednesday and the results are nothing short…
President Donald Trump’s Office of Personnel Management (OPM) offered on Tuesday to give all federal employees nearly eight months of…
An American Airlines flight out of Wichita, Kansas crashed in the Washington D.C. area Wednesday night near the Reagan National…
President Donald Trump’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) rescinded a memorandum freezing some federal grant spending that could have…
The two suspects accused in the fatal shooting of Vermont Border Patrol Agent David Maland, 44, have been identified as…
A week after President Donald Trump signed an executive order designating drug cartels as terrorist organizations, cartel terrorists opened fire…
Editor’s Note: This story has been updated with a statement from Colombian President Gustavo Petro in response to President Trump’s…
President Donald Trump has fulfilled his promise to embrace cryptocurrency, with a Thursday executive order promoting digital assets and prohibiting…
Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey’s (D) office claimed on Friday that its investigation of the numerous hotels converted into illegal immigrant…
Matt Brackley had a sense of foreboding long before the FBI showed up at his home two days after he…
President Donald Trump terminated Dr. Anthony Fauci’s security detail provided by the National Institutes of Health on Thursday, a source…
The superintendent of Lewiston Public Schools issued an announcement on Thursday on the “real fear” among the school community regarding…
The U.S. State Department, under Trump’s chosen Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, announced its new “One Flag” policy, preventing federal…
Some Maine students are granted the ability to attend a public school outside of their home district through what is…
A federal judge has blocked President Donald Trump’s (R) Executive Order redefining birthright citizenship. This comes just days after several…
U.S. Senator from Maine Susan Collins was one of just two Republicans to join Democrats on Thursday in voting against…
The U.S. military will order more than a thousand additional active duty troops to assist with U.S. Customs and Border…
Cumberland County Sheriff’s deputies arrested two men driving an allegedly stolen vehicle on Friday, following a high-speed car chase, crash,…
Lawmakers in Augusta will be considering a proposal to establish “hope accounts” for Maine students who either are home-schooled or…
The State of Maine, as well as the American Civil Liberties Union of Maine (ACLU Maine), have filed lawsuits against…
Xisen Guo, 68, pleaded guilty Jan. 14 to federal drug trafficking charges, becoming the first individual in Maine to do…
President Donald Trump officially withdrew the U.S. from the World Health Organization (WHO) and cut all funding for the international…
No member of Maine’s congressional delegation has been a supporter of President Donald Trump, with the only Republican, Sen. Susan…
The Senate Armed Services Committee voted Monday along party lines to send President Donald Trump’s pick for Defense Secretary, Pete…
Sanford Police announced Tuesday morning that they are conducting a joint operation alongside the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency and the…
At his final pre-inauguration rally on Sunday night, President Trump promised to order the military to begin construction on a…