WASHINGTON, D.C. — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Wednesday January 28, 2026, laid out a sweeping case for what he…
A Somali immigrant convicted in Maine for falsifying his citizenship application is now facing new charges, this time in Vermont.…
Gov. Janet Mills (D-Maine) failed to lower the temperature of her anti-ICE rhetoric on Thursday, even as she responded to…
The Maine State Police urged people on Thursday to be on the lookout for an antique pickup truck stolen from…
The Lewiston-based, Somali-operated Global Home Care has continued to rake in millions in MaineCare benefits despite overbilling the taxpayer-funded program…
A former Brunswick Naval Air Station pilot who went on to fly 40 years for a major airline believes the…
A Woodland Pulp worker who was exposed to a gas leak at the Baileyville mill has died, officials said. The…
AUGUSTA, Maine – Maine political activist Nicholas Blanchard has filed a second federal lawsuit, this time targeting the Augusta Board…
Somali-born state Rep. Yusuf Yusuf (D-Portland) runs a home care business with apparent ties to an interconnected network of Somali-operated…
Secretary of State and Democratic Gubernatorial hopeful Shenna Bellows (D) was in the news recently for her decision to change…
PORTLAND, Maine – Graham Platner, a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, sharply criticized Sen. Susan Collins on Thursday during a…
NORWAY, Maine — The Maine Fire Marshal’s Office says a structure fire on Everett Drive in Norway was accidentally sparked…
PORTLAND, Maine — Portland Mayor Mark Dion and the City Council met in executive session Monday night, Jan. 26, to…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sen. Susan Collins (R) announced Thursday that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has ceased its…
President Donald Trump (R) signed a trio of bills focused on America’s veteran population into law last week. All three…
The fight over new laws in Texas and Louisiana requiring public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments continued this…
The animal-rights group that lost its bid to put the Maine Lobster Festival out of business says it plans to…
Acadia may be the fifth-most-visited national park in the country, but as a “digital detox” it’s just not cutting it.…
A Democrat-led bill set for a public hearing on Thursday would give government agencies the power to bar concerned citizens…
A taxpayer-financed slush fund that Democrat Gov. Janet Mills is proposing violates the government’s definition of poverty. If that isn’t…
The Portland Police Department arrested nine protesters outside of Sen. Susan Collins’ (R-Maine) office on Tuesday after they refused to…
A newly formed fishermen’s coalition is calling on Democrat Gov. Janet Mills to support its fight against potentially harmful industry…
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump ripped the Pro Football Hall of Fame selection process after legendary coach Bill Belichick was…
An animal-rights group has lost its bid to outlaw the midcoast’s annual, internationally-popular Maine Lobster Festival. PETA was trying to…
AUGUSTA, Maine – Governor Janet Mills (D) used her State of the State address to deliver a sweeping political message…
YORK COUNTY, Maine – Republican gubernatorial candidate Ben Midgley won a straw poll held at the York County Republican official…
Though the number of fatalities in Sunday’s corporate-jet crash remained in dispute, either way it was one of the state’s…
Maine’s Gov. Janet Mills (D) announced Tuesday that she intends to recommend that the state spend $2.25 million in support…
Absentee voting is now underway for the special election being held in House District 94 to fill the seat left…
For some 45 years Eric Furry held court at his popular hangout known as Pro Libris Books on Third Street.…
A Portland mental health clinic and its providers agreed to pay a $20,000 settlement after Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) investigators…
The 2011 pre-Christmas mystery surrounding a missing 20-month-old continues to tug at her family. But cops still have no answers…
A group of Catholic parishioners from southern Maine say they have been prevented a second time from meeting with a…
The model of plane that tragically crashed in a Bangor snowstorm earlier this week has been susceptible to wing-ice buildup.…
WASHINGTON – A national coalition of left-leaning advocacy groups led by the ACLU hosted a Monday night virtual training dubbed…
LEWISTON, Maine — Amy Sussman, the aunt of Lewiston mass shooting victim Maxx Hathaway, said Monday that one nonprofit that…
After being recalled from Gov. Janet Mills’ (D) desk as the eleventh-hour last year, Maine lawmakers are scheduled to discuss…
Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey launched an email address on Monday, encouraging Mainers to report federal immigration enforcement activity, including…
A long-established Popham Beach family is claiming victory in a lawsuit brought by their New Jersey-transplant neighbors. The Hills have…
The first Navy ship to be named for retired Rear Adm. James Stockdale, built in Bath, Maine, and recently fending…
The Cumberland County Sheriff’s Department arrested a Westbrook man on Friday after he allegedly crashed into an occupied school bus…
The United States House of Representatives has voted to advance a $1.2 trillion spending package ahead of the upcoming January…
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump signaled an intensified focus on Minnesota in a Truth Social post, saying he is sending…
The Portland Police Department arrested six anti-ICE protesters after they surrounded hotels on Friday night, banging drums and causing a…
AUGUSTA, Maine — Gov. Janet Mills (D) will deliver her final State of the State address Tuesday night, stepping into…
The executive editor of Maine’s largest paper has taken a page from a former Democrat White House aide who famously…
The Rockland Police Department arrested a Bangor man on Friday while executing a search warrant as part of an investigation…
Virginia “Ginny” Oliver, known across the state as Maine’s “Lobster Lady,” has passed away at age 105. Oliver died quietly…
A GoFundMe campaign has begun for the mother of an infant whose father is charged with her savage killing. The…
The script for the made-for-TV movie in which an ex-sheriff blasts ICE while his successor embraces federal immigration enforcement has…
AUGUSTA, Maine – Gov. Janet Mills (D) is urging Maine people to brace for a significant winter storm and lingering…
FAIRFIELD, Maine — Maine State Police are investigating the death of a 46-year-old Oakland man who was found on the…
ELLSWORTH, Maine — The Office of the State Fire Marshal is investigating an early-morning structure fire at a vacant residence…
BANGOR, Maine — A private jet carrying eight people crashed during takeoff Sunday night at Bangor International Airport, prompting an…
State offices will be closed all day Monday, Jan. 26, 2026, due to severe winter storm conditions. Gov. Janet Mills…
A bill that would have allowed the State Police to establish an electronic surveillance system to track vehicle inspections has…
The two leading contenders for a U.S. Senate seat from Maine suddenly changed their travel plans to exploit their anti-ICE…
Imagine spending your Saturday afternoon outside in 8-degree cold, holding signs and chanting hatred at the very people whose job…
AUGUSTA — Gov. Janet Mills on Thursday seized on reports of “yet another killing” in Minnesota involving federal immigration agents…
Jore Venture and Anthony Iafrate MINNEAPOLIS — Chaos erupted Saturday on the streets of Minneapolis shortly after a Border Patrol…
HARPSWELL, Maine — The Maine Fire Marshal’s Office is investigating a fire that destroyed a home early Friday in Harpswell…
CROSS LAKE TOWNSHIP, Maine — Maine State Police arrested a 37-year-old man Thursday after responding to a reported domestic disturbance…
PORTLAND, Maine – ICE deputy assistant director is firing back at the growing chorus of Maine media and political criticism…
PORTLAND, Maine — Axios first reported that Gov. Janet Mills flew to California this week for a round of high-dollar…
Fifteen years after Congress closed the Brunswick Naval Air Station, the nonprofit museum that sprung up in its wake is…
The organizer of a fundraising campaign designed to benefit a victimized northern-Maine family says he got reported for an allegedly…
The Portland Police Department issued a criminal summons for one of the protesters who gathered outside a Residence Inn on…
124,000 vs. 92,000. That would be the numbers of Facebookers who follow The Maine Wire and the Portland Press Herald,…
A new bill introduced in Augusta looks to make permanent in Maine law a version of the federal energy-efficient home…
PORTLAND, Maine — The City of Portland will open an emergency overnight warming shelter this weekend, operating Friday, Saturday and…
Maine State Police arrested a Cross Lake Township man on Thursday following an alleged domestic violence incident that turned into…
A widely followed kids’ YouTuber and top ally of NYC’s Maine-educated mayor is under fire for offering a fake apology…
For decades a Burnham company that made golf tees and wooden toys has kept hundreds of people employed. But it’s…
Democrats on Maine’s Legislative Council voted on Thursday against considering an emergency bill that would require Secretary of State Shenna…
Hudson Crozier is a reporter for the Daily Caller News Foundation An anti-deportation protester who dared Attorney General Pam Bondi…
LEWISTON — Ifraax Saciid-Ciise, a Lewiston Somali interpreter and nonprofit director, is now the face of a widening backlash over…
An international hall-of-fame recreational angler has finally confirmed the painful truth: most of Maine’s 376,449 licensed anglers won’t catch enough…
Gov. Janet Mills (D) announced Tuesday that she will be proposing in the upcoming supplemental budget $4.3 million worth of…
Both the number of homes sold in Maine and the median price for which they were bought increased last year…
The U.S. federal government is demanding a $28.7 million refund from Maine as an audit uncovers rampant documentation failures in…
An investigation into an unassuming office building on Portland’s Anderson Street has revealed an interlinked network of lucrative Medicaid agencies…
Maine lawmakers are considering establishing a refundable electricity cost fairness tax credit valued at up to $600 targeted at lower-income…
The Maine Wire can exclusively confirm that ICE agents arrested an Angolan national who has been working as a York…
LEWISTON, Maine — Republican gubernatorial candidate David Jones is escalating his push for outside scrutiny of donations raised after the…
A national organization founded by a critically wounded combat veteran to help injured public servants overcome the rigors of battle…
PORTLAND, Maine — Gov. Janet Mills (D) held a quick press conference Thursday morning at Portland City Hall as U.S.…
AUGUSTA, Maine — Entrepreneur and Republican gubernatorial candidate Owen McCarthy today released “Maine 2040: Built to Lead Again,” a comprehensive…
Two Chinese men living in New York pleaded guilty to mortgage fraud charges on Wednesday after they conspired to obtain…
LEWISTON/PORTLAND — Federal immigration agents fanned out across Maine this week under a new enforcement push branded “Operation Catch of…
LEWISTON, Maine — Lewiston’s City Council voted Tuesday night to appoint Chrissy Noble to fill the vacant Ward 5 seat…
AUGUSTA, Maine — The David Jones (R) for Governor campaign said Wednesday it has launched its first statewide video advertisement…
The Rockland Police Department arrested a Hope man on Tuesday morning after a local business reportedly lost over $3,000 in…
LEWISTON, Maine — Lewiston’s Ward 5 vacancy was supposed to be filled with a sober, public vetting of applicants. Instead,…
RSU 34 went into lockdown on Wednesday morning after receiving a threat, prompting the University of Maine (UMaine) to issue…
The University of New England has been set back in its bid to begin creating student housing in a Biddeford…
Cumberland County Chief Deputy Brian Pellerin is running as an independent against Democrat York County Sheriff William King, he announced…
Maine’s largest paper has outdone even itself in the self-loathing sphere, begging readers for encrypted ICE tips. But judging from…
An Anti-ICE protester deliberately interfered with the Brewer Police Department and blew an air horn at officers while they investigated…
The University of Maine System (UMS) is set to receive $51 million in federal funding as part of the Fiscal…
Six dogs died when fire broke out at the Give a Dog a Home rescue shelter in Sebec, officials said.…