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Probably the most likable candidate for governor of Maine last time won less than two percent of the vote. Sam…
By Chief Eric H. Small I’ve worn a badge in Maine for decades, but never have I felt more powerless…
Armed U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents, along with agents from Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), raided the Kobe Ninja…
Gov. Janet Mills (D) signed the $320 million supplemental budget into law Monday that contains a number of increased taxes…
Stephen S. Walker gives a speech to the Brunswick Town Council after resigning his District 2 seat. During Saturday’s annual…
The Democratic Socialists of Maine criticized their national parent organization in an Instagram post on Sunday after the Democratic Socialists…
Maine Governor Janet Mills vetoed two bills Wednesday, June 18 targeting farmworker unionization and legal representation for indigent defendants, citing…
A contentious bill, essentially turning Maine into a sanctuary state for illegal immigrants by severely limiting local cooperation with Immigration…
If the failed Canadian summit sponsored by Maine’s Democrat governor is any indication, she may want a reset on her…
The Maine House voted narrowly on Friday evening to pass a bill that will ban transgender-identifying males from girls’ sports…
By Chad Grignon Ask any Maine business owner, and they’ll tell you one of the hardest parts of operating in…
A man suspected of killing the former speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives was taken into custody on Sunday…
Lawmakers have voted this week to restructure the Maine’s income tax brackets to impose a higher tax rate on the…
Maine Civic Action, an organization focused on educating Mainers on free markets and individual liberties, announced on Friday that its…
Sen. Rick Bennett (R-Oxford) voted with Democrats on Thursday night and became the only Republican to oppose a bill that…
Maine legislators have defeated a bill that sought to reverse the changes made by a controversial abortion law signed into…
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Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) joined Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Thursday in co-sponsoring his bill, the “End Prescription Drug Ads…
The City of Portland resettled nearly 1,000 migrants within its territorial limits in 2024, including over 400 at a shelter…
Two law enforcement sources, who spoke with the Maine Wire on the condition of anonymity as they were not authorized…
The Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office is conducting an ongoing investigation into a Monday shooting in Glenburn that left two injured.…
The Satanic Temple’s abortion branch, TST Health, announced the creation of a new telehealth abortion provider serving Maine, deliberately set…
Here’s the version you’re getting from Maine’s dying legacy media: A brave and loving New Mainer from China who did nothing…
President Donald Trump’s (R) approval rating is holding steady at 47 percent, while a strong majority of Americans have expressed…
In what is appearing increasingly to be a personally-driven showdown, President Donald Trump vowed this week to strip America’s oldest…
President Donald Trump took to Truth Social on Tuesday to celebrate Maine fishermen and to discuss his work to remove…
Former Republican Gov. Paul LePage joined The Robinson Report for an interview about his decision to run for Maine’s Second…
A federal judge has blocked President Donald Trump’s (R) executive order aiming to dismantle the Department of Education, arguing that…
The United States House of Representatives passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, including provisions for tax cuts, welfare reform,…
Democrats on the state legislature’s Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety (CJPS) teamed up on Monday to kill a…
Governor Janet Mills (D-Maine) is signaling her disapproval of the Trump Administration’s rocky relationship with Canada by using taxpayer funds…
A South Portland Police crisis negotiator on Wednesday was successfully able to safely de-escalate a situation involving a 20-year-old South…
Maine Democratic lawmakers are seeking to prevent the state’s Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) from reducing its reimbursement…
A Chinese national who owns a Chinese food restaurant in Lewiston was taken into custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs…
Bowdoin College is now facing a civil rights complaint from the Equal Protection Project (EPP) filed on Wednesday, after it…
Hansjörg Wyss, a Swiss billionaire and prominent Democratic donor, is facing a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by a former employee…
A new poll reveals a bipartisan majority of Maine voters oppose several progressive education policies supported by Gov. Janet Mills’…
The Maine Drug Enforcement Agency (MDEA) arrested Abdirahman A. Abdullahi, 26, of Portland, during a drug bust on Wednesday, seizing…
The Portland Police Department executed a sting operation on Thursday that led to the arrest of the homeless lifetime sex…
Seven Republicans in the Maine Senate voted with Democrats on Wednesday against a GOP-led bill that would have stopped the…
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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) on Monday unsealed a federal indictment against a Chinese company and three Chinese nationals…
An activist group in Dexter has secured enough signatures to force a recall vote for two conservative Maine School Administrative…
The Mills Administration’s spending via state contracts has come under increasing scrutiny in light of Democratic State Auditor Matt Dunlap’s…
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…



























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