U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-ME) wants the world to know about her decision to vote against the bill allowing the…
A special election is likely on the horizon for Maine House District 94 in Lewiston after longtime Democratic Rep. Kristen…
Former Maine Senate president and 2018 Republican gubernatorial primary candidate Garrett Mason filed paperwork with the state to form an…
A long-running and divisive fight over whether the Cumberland County Jail should continue holding Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees is…
Maine’s administration of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is receiving renewed attention as federal officials enforce stricter data-reporting requirements…
Auburn Republican Laurel Libby will not run for another term in the Maine House next year, she announced Monday morning.…
A sprawling national black-market for renting and selling DoorDash accounts has quietly become one of the most widespread and least…
President Donald Trump on Sunday night called on House Republicans to vote to release files related to deceased pedophile sex…
An 18-year-old from South Portland was arrested Friday after deputies say he placed a false 911 call reporting an active…
Newly elected Ward 5 City Councilor-read elect and current School Committee member Iman Osman is facing increasing scrutiny over his…
A few years back, a man who was then a state representative shared with me a frustration he had about…
A 27-year-old Vassalboro man was arrested Thursday night after police say he forced his way into a Fairfield home, fled…
Acadia hikers who feel they can’t get high enough without cannabis – despite Cadillac Mountain being the highest point on…
The Internal Revenue Service announced new contribution limits for key retirement plans for tax year 2026, offering increased opportunities for…
Maine’s Senator Susan Collins (R) announced Friday that she and two other lawmakers led a bipartisan group of senators in…
Maine’s electricity costs have risen faster than those of any other state in the nation, and the trend has become…
A man fell from the roof of a bus onto the Maine Turnpike on Friday after hoisting himself aloft to…
Known for its beautiful foliage, Maine is often a destination during the autumn months for those looking to soak in…
A new report from the Tax Foundation analyzes the burden imposed by states upon their residents, taking into consideration sales…
A 40-foot red spruce from a Portland Housing Authority property will become this year’s Monument Square holiday tree, with crews…
New York just elected a communist, antisemitic, Muslim mayor, and Maine is tipping that way. There is plainly trouble in…
The House of Representatives is poised to vote next week on legislation that would compel the Department of Justice to…
U.S. Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) has secured nearly $35 million in federal funding for 20 projects across Maine, her office…
Earlier this week, The Maine Wire ran an op-ed by Larry Lockman entitled “Ballot Box Boomerang: Will Maine Republicans Overcome…
The board of directors at grocery chain Market Basket is locked in a legal dispute with former CEO Arthur T.…
A new federal restriction on commercial driver’s licenses (CDLs) is poised to disrupt public transit across southern Maine, leaving Greater…
A sweeping new federal restriction buried deep in Congress’s latest spending bill is poised to wipe out most of America’s…
Graham Platner’s U.S. Senate campaign failed to file his personal financial disclosure with the Secretary of the Senate, a requirement…
After weeks of gridlock, a plan to reopen the federal government was signed into law by President Donald Trump (R)…
Old Thom, a North Atlantic orca known for being the only killer whale regularly sighted in the Gulf of Maine,…
The Houlton Police Department arrested a man on Monday after he allegedly stole cartons of cigarettes from a local smoke…
The Rumford Police Department arrested a convicted felon on Thursday after he allegedly cashed a $6,000 canceled check following over…
Three years after getting fried in a devastating fire, Penobscot McCrum, which has harvested and processed Maine potatoes since 1886,…
Justice John O’Neil declared a mistrial on Wednesday in the high-profile manslaughter case of Aziayh Scott, 24, of Louisiana, who…
While conducting a welfare check on Tuesday, Fairfield police discovered a dead body in a circumstance they termed unusual. [RELATED:…
A coalition of more than twenty states, including Maine, have sued the Trump Administration over its decision to disqualify some…
Sanford Police Chief Eric Small announced he will run as a Republican for a seat in Maine’s State House District…
State Sen. Joe Rafferty, a Democrat from Kennebunk who has represented Maine’s District 34 for the past five years, announced…
Human remains discovered last month in northern Maine have been identified as those of a woman missing since July, authorities…
Conservative activist Nicholas Blanchard, widely known by his online persona “Corn Pop,” has entered the race for the Augusta School…
Mexico tops the list when it comes to burglary – Mexico, Maine that is, according to a new crime survey…
Three former York County Corrections Officers were indicted on November 4 after they allegedly accepted bribes from a prisoner to…
President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed legislation to reopen the federal government, ending the longest shutdown in U.S. history after…
Iman Osman, recently elected to represent Ward 5 on the Lewiston City Council and currently serving on the Lewiston School…
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner’s campaign has been paying his wife a biweekly salary, according to recent filings with…
A former York County corrections officer was in a romantic relationship and living with a wanted fugitive and former prisoner…
The dynastic trials seem to be rearing their ugly heads as a Maine prince-in-waiting delicately shadows The King. When Democrat…
The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote Wednesday late afternoon on legislation that could end the longest government…
Let’s see … Maine needs an economic boost, it’s on the Atlantic coast, it already has a major Coast Guard…
Radically left-wing Senate hopeful Graham Platner is polling far below incumbent Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) in a new poll obtained…
The state that supplies 90 percent of the U.S. lobster supply is trying to navigate the waters of an international…
A new grassroots movement calling itself Common Sense for Maine is kicking off its first annual “Tailgate for Common Sense”…
Jordan Wood, a Bristol Democrat who had been seeking to challenge Republican U.S. Sen. Susan Collins in next year’s election,…
A pair of Democrat-appointed judges temporarily paused the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal migrant truck drivers. The U.S. Court of…
Four of the eight Republican candidates for governor marked Veterans Day with a spirited debate Monday night, trading views on…
The deal now making its way from the Senate to the House that will bring an end to the record-long…
The Biddeford Police Department arrested a fugitive wanted on a charge of trafficking of prison contraband after he fled police…
During the first Trump administration, some wondered why the president so proficient at parceling out nicknames insisted on calling the…
The Bangor City Council voted unanimously on Monday to end public comments held remotely via Zoom at its first meeting…
Portland’s City Council on Monday approved an ordinance requiring owners of vacant storefronts in the city’s pedestrian district to register…
Sanford Police Chief Eric Smalls ended his Republican bid for Rep. Chellie Pingree’s (D-Maine) First Congressional District (CD1) House seat…
The day before the crushing defeat of Question One on November 4th— which would have reformed absentee voting and mandated…
Despite dozens of approved projects and strong demand for new housing, several major developments in Portland are stalled as rising…
A dizzingly-expensive art collection that belonged to a cosmetics heir and his Maine widow is expected to fetch a half-billion…
A chimney fire early Monday left a single-family home on Wolff Farm Lane in this York County coastal town as…
Maine will only resettle 50 refugees through the federal refugee program in the 2026 fiscal year after President Donald Trump…
A Saco physical education teacher has cinched his third Guinness World Record, this time for the most high school three-pointers…
The U.S. Senate approved legislation authored by Sen. Susan Collins (R) to reopen the federal government, advancing a package that…
In the wake of the October 25, 2023 mass shooting in Lewiston, thousands of Mainers and donors across the country…
Republican attorney and U.S. Marine veteran John Deaton has formally launched a campaign for the U.S. Senate seat currently held…
A new poll from the University of New Hampshire Survey Center offers some early insight into the 2028 presidential primary…
What began as a string of odd, apparent ATM malfunctions Maine towns turned out to be part of a sophisticated…
Four-term congressman Jared Golden’s (D-Maine) surprise announcement on Wednesday that he would not be seeking re-election drastically altered the high-stakes…
The self-avowed Bowdoin College Palestinian-rights cheerleader grad – now the mayor-elect of America’s biggest city – is getting an attaboy…
The FBI charged three Chinese citizens last week after they allegedly conspired to smuggle biological materials into the U.S. while…
President Donald Trump has granted “full, complete and unconditional” pardons to several high-profile allies accused of attempting to overturn the…
The top secret June 2025 B-2 Bomber strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities was launched from Whiteman Air Force base, which…
Police in Rockland arrested a sex offender from Arkansas on Saturday after he was found sleeping in an unmarked van…
A months-long legal campaign by a Canadian ostrich farm to “save” 300 of its birds from government culling has gone…
The reports of ballots turning up in unexpected places during elections are often described by officials as isolated and unlikely…
The University of Southern Maine (USM) is hosting what it describes as “the largest campus and community drag show in…
The Cumberland County Sheriff’s Department is searching for an alleged scammer who attempted to steal $19,500 from an elderly Maine…
Valerie Adams, a former Assistant District Attorney in Cumberland County, confirmed she will run for District Attorney in 2026, days…
Local prosecutors charged a Mexican man currently serving as mayor of a small American city with unlawfully voting multiple times…
The Wells Police Department is investigating a series of overnight motor-vehicle burglaries in the northern part of town that appear…
President Donald Trump on Sunday described critics of his tariff strategy as “fools” and pledged that the government will distribute…
Governor Janet Mills (D) said Sunday she expects full Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits to begin Monday, condemning what…
The United States Senate took the first step Sunday toward ending the government shutdown after a group of moderate Democrats…
A closely watched race for an at-large seat on the Westbrook City Council is headed for a recount after a…
A Portland mother is aghast that officials in Maine’s largest immigrant city are now accusing concerned parents of overreacting to…
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A federal grand jury has issued subpoenas to former CIA Director John Brennan and former senior FBI officials Peter Strzok…
In the wake of a top-level staffing exodus in recent weeks, U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner (D) is doubling down…
Governor Janet Mills (D) has directed the Maine Department of Health and Human Services to issue full Supplemental Nutrition Assistance…
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) food-aid program for about 42 million Americans is caught in fresh legal and funding…
Maine School Administrative District (MSAD) 54, encompassing Skowhegan and surrounding towns, held an event for Maine’s “Seventh Annual Day of…
A senior prosecutor has departed the Cumberland County District Attorney’s Office amid allegations of internal conflict and concerns about workplace…
A King Middle School student on the way to school in Portland was attacked Thursday by a stranger, the second…
The nation’s first-ever transgender-identifying state lawmaker, a former New Hampshire Democratic representative for Nashua, pleaded guilty this week to the…
Deputies of the Penobscot County Sheriff arrested an armed, homeless sex offender in Stetson with help from some canine friends…