Gov. Janet Mills on Wednesday proposed a $10.3 billion budget that will largely shape political negotiations in Augusta and state…
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Sen. Jeff Timberlake (R-Androscoggin) and former Sen. Bill Diamond are once again calling for significant reforms to the Department of…
Paris residents voted Tuesday night to recall a pair of school board officials who drew the community’s ire by pushing…
Maine’s political reporters rung in the New Year — and the official start of Democratic Gov. Janet Mills’ second term…
A Maine child was born into a household with parents who neglected him, restrained him for long periods of time,…
The school system in Maine’s largest city has is facing a civil rights complaint alleging the school has been discriminating…
The school system in Maine’s largest city has been operating a résumé coaching program that is only available to people…
The fate of more than $86,000 in campaign cash left unspent during the 2022 election provides a glimpse of Augusta’s…
Officials at a public school in Damariscotta won’t respond to The Maine Wire’s questions about a 26-year-old conditionally licensed social…
A public school worker at Great Salt Bay Community School who coached a 13-year-old girl into a gender transition without…
UPDATE: Bangor Police Department Public Information Officer Sgt. Jason McAmbley said in an email that assault charges were filed against…
The town of Bucksport has pulled a Christmas nativity scene from public property after receiving a complaint from an atheist…
As America’s open border with Mexico continues to see unprecedented levels of illegal immigration, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…
The New York Times invented a new word on Wednesday as part of a growing call from health officials in…
Mainers from across the state braved icy temperatures and gathered outside Whole Foods in Portland on Monday afternoon to protest…
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, who said in 2021 the current high levels of inflation in the American economy would…
A top Twitter lawyer fired by Elon Musk was previously a high-level FBI official who played a key role in…
The Lewiston Sun Journal news coverage of a school policy fight in the Oxford Hills School District left some readers…
Republican lawmakers introduced a plan Tuesday to change Maine tax law to punish any business that opts to boycott the…
Maine’s needle exchange program requires users to turnover one used needle in order to get one clean needle. But at…
Large financial technology firms “caused tremendous harm to taxpayers” by facilitating the flow of tens of billions of dollars in…
Previously unseen government documents from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have revealed that the off-shore wind industry poses…
A school board recall fight in the Oxford Hills School District is the latest chapter in a growing divide over…
The fleet of five rental cars President Joe Biden and his entourage used during their Thanksgiving vacation to Nantucket mysteriously…
Maine’s churches and other religious non-profits could see their tax exempt status threatened by activist lawsuits if the Senate votes…
In a bizarre Boston Globe story, the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts expressed skepticism of a lawsuit against the…
The New England states are facing a looming crisis over how to pay for housing for tens of thousands of…
The administration of Gov. Janet Mills sought the creation of a novel credentialing system for journalists last October in a…
The Maine Democratic Party received $100,000 in campaign cash that may be the product of ill gotten gains from Sam…
Incoming House Oversight Committee Chair Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) and incoming House Judiciary Chair Rep. Jim Jorden (R-Ohio) said Thursday…
Several Republican Members of Congress are escalating calls for a forensic audit of U.S. military and non-military aid to Ukraine…
Samuel Bankman-Fried’s bankrupt and scandal-plagued cryptocurrency empire gave $18.25 million to early COVID-19 researchers whose findings cast doubt on the…
The New York Times managed to get what is right now the hottest interview in the world: Sam Bankman-Fried, the…
Sam Bankman-Fried is a name you’re going to hear a lot about over the next year – and rightly so.…
The cost for a gallon of heating oil in Maine has hit a record high. Mainers should expect to pay…
President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan, which many viewed as an illegal ploy to court millennial voters, has gone…
The Lewiston Sun Journal’s Steve Collins wrote a gushing profile about a young Lewiston community organizer, Mana Hared Abdi, who…
President Joe Biden gave the green light Wednesday to federal authorities to begin investigating Elon Musk following his acquisition of…
Less than 24 hours after the polls closed on Election Day, the surviving House Republicans have already begun throwing their…
UPDATE: Republicans Blake Masters and Kari Lake have filed suit against Maricopa County to keep the polls open following ballot…
Total taxes collected from state and local government in 2022 in Maine are headed for the highest level ever recorded.…
Taxpayer funding for Out Maine, a far left nonprofit group, increased significantly during Democratic Gov. Janet Mills’ first term as…
Gov. Janet Mills said in a debate Thursday Maine needs more asylum seekers and refugees in order to provide businesses…
Mainers will find the State’s heating assistance program difficult to navigate this heating season because long waitlists, bureaucratic handwringing, and…
Parents read from a sexually explicit LGBT-themed book found in Maine’s schools in a new ad from Maine Families First…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills spent more than $500,000 to mail physical checks, rather than make $850 instant electronic deposits, so…
If it’s brown, it’s down! Maine’s 2021 hunting season resulted in plenty of overstuffed deep freezers, according to the new…
The Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA) program, a short-term program designed to protect Maine renters from the economic harm caused by…
Former Gov. Paul LePage and State Sen. Trey Stewart (R-Aroostook) are calling for an investigation into whether a phone call…
Democratic Gov. Janet Mills and Republican former Gov. Paul LePage clashed once again Thursday night in a debate that may…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills reversed her position on mandated COVID-19 vaccinations for school children Thursday night during her third debate…
The University of Southern Maine is headed before the Maine Human Rights Commission (MHRC) on Monday, Nov. 7 to appeal…
The National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), fresh off their Pandemic Era advocacy for school…
In both of the gubernatorial debates, Republican Gov. Paul LePage has brought up changes to Maine’s fentanyl trafficking laws made…
Maine Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) joined her fellow members of the Congressional Progressive Congress in signing a now-retracted letter to…
As Maine retail heating oil prices surge to $5.43 per gallon and some market analysts predict rationing, Maine’s oil dealers…
Government lockdowns following the COVID-19 outbreak caused unprecedented declines in American students’ math and reading test scores, according to new…
A conservative political action committee on Sunday announced a $600,000 TV ad buy to draw attention to the inclusion of…
A Hermon third grade teacher who also heads the Hermon Teachers Association has a message for parents who are upset…
Gray-New Gloucester Middle School Teacher Ann Cook’s politically charged conversation with an 8th grader, first reported on by The Maine…
The State Representative from New Gloucester on Monday called on MSAD 15 officials to launch an investigation into allegations that…
AUGUSTA – Maine Gov. Janet Mills’s male employees are making more money than their female counterparts, according to The Maine…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills is blaming Russia for the high price of energy as Maine heads into winter. “Energy prices…
Maine’s congressional delegation has voted to increase funding for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) by more than $6…
Inflation in the U.S. economy hit 8.2% in September, a sharper rise than some economists predicted, while the Core Consumer…
