Gov. Janet Mills (D) is set to deliver her annual State of the State address Tuesday evening. The speech, her…
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The small town of Houlton is about to become one of the most surveilled communities on the U.S. border thanks…
Senate President Troy Jackson (D-Aroostook) has told Democratic activists that he will support gun control legislation he has previously voted…
At the Androscoggin County Republicans’ 2024 caucus over the weekend, State Rep. Mike Soboleski (R-Phillips) won the caucus’ CD2 primary…
The Boston Globe, a newspaper that belongs to yacht-lover and Red Sox owner John Henry, helped a woman kill herself…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills announced Friday that she plans to present a “novel” two-part State of the State Address next…
Maine’s Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (DIFW) released a statement yesterday encouraging people to sign up for its “Traps+Trails…
Former President Donald Trump’s trade adviser Peter Navarro was sentenced on Thursday to four months in prison for contempt of…
Gov. Janet Mills (D) will not be reappointing Justice Joseph M. Jabar, a longtime Maine jurist who has served in…
Mainers appeared in Augusta on Wednesday to defend their right to private property during a public hearing on a bill…
Members of the Falmouth High School Football Team and their parents published a 41-page-long list of grievances against Coach John…
The Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) Foundation’s Center for Legislative Accountability released a legislative scorecard Tuesday rating the conservative voting…
Democratic State Rep. Benjamin Collings of Portland is seeking to amend Article I of the Constitution of Maine to include…
Maine sportsmen had better fall in line with the Democratic Party’s upcoming push for gun control if they want to…
Gov. Janet Mills (D) has officially come out in support of an amendment to the state’s constitution that would codify…
Maine State Rep. Colleen Madigan (D-Waterville) has sponsored a bill that would provide the state’s “low-barrier” homeless shelters with a…
A coalition of nine Democratic state governors, led by Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York, sent a letter to the…
A 31-year-old Haitian national who is unlawfully present in the United States, and who was recently charged with raping a…
While in Canada for a UFC match, mixed martial artist Sean Strickland was asked by a Canadian reporter about his…
On January 18, House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-TX) hosted a press conference discussing H.R. 5779, known as the…
On Monday, January 22, lawmakers on the Judiciary Committee will hold a public hearing for a proposed amendment to Maine’s…
According to the U.S. Justice Department, former Internal Revenue Service (IRS) contractor Charles Littlejohn took his job with the tax…
Hancock County Jail Administrator Timothy Richardson announced Thursday that Eliot Cutler, the former Maine gubernatorial candidate who was arrested for…
Former Portland Mayor and active member of the Maine Democratic Socialists of America (Maine DSA) Ethan Strimling has hired a…
The federal government engaged in systemic financial surveillance of U.S. citizens who supported former Republican President Donald Trump, U.S. Rep.…
U.S. Rep. Jared Golden (ME-02) called on President Joe Biden to “enforce the immigration laws” after voting Wednesday in favor…
The City of South Portland is working to close a $4 million shortfall in their current fiscal year budget they…
The Maine Superior Court on Wednesday ordered Secretary of State Shenna Bellows to revisit her decision blocking former President Donald…
As temperatures plunged below freezing for much of the country this week, there have been numerous reports of electric vehicles…
The Maine Judiciary Committee faced intense scrutiny today as it postponed a Work Session on a controversial bill that would…
The United States Supreme Court is set to consider Wednesday a pair of cases that have the potential to redefine…
Lawmakers in Augusta are considering Wednesday a bill that would decriminalize the possession of drugs and related paraphernalia, including LD…
Colby College, a private liberal arts college in Waterville, Maine, has a course in its Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies…
Five months after telling its staff and readers that it planned to disclose “the funders” behind the purchase of five…
The Maine Department of Transportation (Maine DOT) announced Thursday that Maine will be receiving a $15 million taxpayer-funded grant from…
President Joe Biden is facing backlash from both Democratic and Republican lawmakers for not seeking Congressional approval prior to authorizing…
Former President Donald Trump has asked the Maine Superior Court to consider evidence that Secretary of State Shenna Bellows allegedly…
The majority of Mainers feel that “partisan politics” factored into Secretary of State Shenna Bellows’ decision to disqualify former President…
At a hearing on Monday, Maine’s committee on Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry (ACF), held what was meant to be the…
Maine Sen. Susan Collins (R) called on U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to be more forthcoming about the details of…
Healthcare costs in Maine, already higher than most other states, are continuing to increase, and a D.C.-based center-left think tanks…
Town officials in northern Penobscot County suspect that out-of-state criminal organizations are illegally growing and trafficking marijuana in their towns,…
A growing number of Americans view the situation at the U.S.-Mexico border as a crisis and seek tougher enforcement policies…
Maine’s taxpayer funded Permanent Commission on the Status of Racial, Indigenous and Tribal Populations (PCRITP) sponsored a hyper-woke webinar Tuesday…
Rep. John Andrews (R-Paris) has filed a resolution that, if approved, would initiate an impeachment inquiry against Maine Secretary of…
Protestors gathered today outside the General Dynamics production facility in Saco Maine, complaining that the company is supplying Israel’s “genocide”…
Rep. Mike Soboleski (R-Philips) filed an official ethics complaint against Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows for failing to recuse…
The Maine State Police announced on Tuesday that they had busted up two illegal cannabis growing operations in Belgrade. The…
The City of Portland began clearing out the large homeless encampment underneath the Casco Bay Bridge in Harbor View Park…
The Kennebec County Sheriff’s Office arrested three Chinese adult males and seized 970 marijuana plants from an illegal commercial-scale cannabis…
All but one of Maine’s U.S Congressional Delegation issued statements opposing Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows’ decision Thursday to…
The Republican candidates vying for a chance to run against U.S. Rep. Jared Golden in Maine’s conservative 2nd Congressional District…
The Maine Department of Environmental Protection (Maine DEP) has told the Maine Wire that reporting from the Portland Press Herald…
Ten years ago, I wrote a column for the Bangor Daily News (back when it ran actual news) entitled “The…
Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows has blocked former President Donald Trump from appearing on Maine’s primary ballot next year.…
The Biden Administration has once again refused to provide independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. with protection from the…
The Maine Service Employees Association (MSEA), a branch of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), has negotiated for a significant…
The South Portland Board of Education is considering ways to improve “diversity” and reduce racial and socioeconomic “segregation” across the…
The media arm of the Bangor Publishing Company edited the headline of a story on Wednesday to make it less…
Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows has delayed issuing a decision on former President Donald Trump’s eligibility to appear on…
The Maine Board of Environmental Protection (Maine BEP) has delayed voting on the set of controversial California-style vehicle emissions regulations…
The Maine Public Utilities Commission (MPUC) has been forced to delay development of the Aroostook Renewable Energy Gateway because the…
In November, 20 Romanian citizens were detained illegally crossing the U.S.-Canada border into Hodgdon, Maine. Two of them were held…
Following the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to remove former President Donald Trump from the state’s GOP primary ballot, the Maine…
The Maine Board of Environmental Protection (Maine BEP) has postponed its expected vote on the controversial California-style vehicle emissions regulations,…
The Colorado Supreme Court ruled 4-3 Tuesday that former President Donald Trump is ineligible to appear on the state’s primary…
Employees of the Natural Resources Council of Maine (NRCM), a left-wing nonprofit active in Maine politics, are seeking to unionize…
Over half of Maine households lost power in the recent storm, and hundreds of thousands are still awaiting a restoration…
Portland School Board Chair Sarah Lentz presented the 2023 State of the Schools report to the Portland City Council Monday…
Maine has the second fastest rising electricity costs of any state in the nation, only trailing behind California, according to…
The Maine Wire sat down Wednesday with the City of Portland’s newly elected and inaugurated Mayor Mark Dion for an…
Following the Black Lives Matter (BLM) riots of 2020, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Melville W. Fuller – the only Mainer…
The Maine Secretary of State’s Office held an eight-hour hearing last Friday concerning former President Donald Trump’s (R) ability to…
Maine’s legislature will consider a bill proposed by Sen. Joe Baldacci (D-Penobscot) that would remove all references to marijuana from…
The City of Portland announced Friday that they will be clearing out the large homeless encampment under the Casco Bay…
An ex-FBI agent who helped initiate the bureau’s infamous “Russiagate” probe into former President Donald Trump’s alleged collusion with Russia…
Two executives from Catholic Charities Maine joined a panel discussion this week hosted by Refugees International and the Women’s Refugee…
The Maine Board of Environmental Protection (Maine BEP) has now officially responded to the thousand-plus public comments it received on…
Maine Wire Editor-in-Chief joined Steven K. Bannon’s The War Room Thursday night to discuss the latest breaking news in Maine’s…
Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine) and independent Senator Angus King (I-Maine). who caucuses with Democrats, voted to approve a major defense…
A longtime substitute teacher and paraprofessional in Maine School Administrative District 75 (MSAD 75) has resigned following the district’s recent…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills announced Monday that her administration is investing $3.5 million into substance use disorder (SUD) treatment services…
Harvard University President Claudine Gay — already under scrutiny over her contentious Dec. 5 testimony to Congress concerning campus anti-semitism…
The Independent Commission directed by Gov. Janet Mills to investigate the facts surrounding the Oct. 25 mass shooting in Lewiston…
A New Hampshire man has been arrested and charged in connection with threats made against Republican 2024 presidential candidate Vivek…
Education, particularly a college degree, has long been a ticket to the middle class and upward mobility in America. Unfortunately,…
A group of pro-Palestine protestors gathered outside Bath Iron Works (BIW) Friday in Bath, Maine, demanding that the shipyard “stop…
One of Maine’s largest healthcare providers threatened to terminate the employment of as many as 500 employees who had not…
The Maine Board of Environmental Protection (Maine BEP) is expected to discuss the proposed controversial, California-style vehicle emissions regulations at…
The Supreme Court will not be settling the Circuit Court dispute over the legal standing of self-proclaimed Americans with Disabilities…
In a Wednesday op-ed in the Portland Press Herald, Cumberland County District Attorney Jackie Sartoris expressed her concern over rampant…
A group of pro-Palestine groups will hold a rally Friday at Bath Iron Works (BIW) in Bath, Maine, to “protest…
Republican U.S. Senator from Maine Susan Collins has sent a letter to the U.S. Attorney for the District of Maine…
In its quarterly newsletter, The Spotlight, the Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) highlighted the Biden Administration’s plan…
Maine State Rep. Austin Theriault, R-Fort Kent, is set to receive support from House Speaker Mike Johnson’s newly formed “Grow…
The Cape Elizabeth Town Council has voted to approve a slate of changes to bring their zoning ordinances into compliance…
Portland’s Encampment Crisis Response Team (ECRT) has started implementing a plan to move homeless individuals from the Harbor View Park…
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Florida) battled Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-California) on Thursday night in a contentious debate about the governance Florida,…
Republican U.S. Senator Marco Rubio of Florida and four of his colleagues sent a letter Friday to President Joe Biden…
The Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office has said it is investigating the illegal Marijuana grow facilities that have proliferated throughout northern…