Lisbon voters have rejected the town’s proposed school budget of more than $21 million for the second time this year.…
Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to meet with President Donald Trump in the coming days as the end of…
A Rockland minor is facing felony charges following a Tuesday arrest for allegedly assaulting, strangling, and robbing a man as…
President Donald Trump revealed on Thursday that he has ordered his administration to create a new census, in which illegal…
Maine’s Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML) Benefits Authority announced Thursday that it will be holding a meeting next month…
A Mechanic Falls man who disappeared four decades ago while on a solo worldwide sailing dare will be honored by…
Penobscot County Sheriff’s deputies conducted drug raids on two Charleston homes on Tuesday that led to two arrests and the…
The Franklin County Sheriff’s Department arrested a Pennsylvania man in Rangeley Plantation on Wednesday after he was discovered allegedly trafficking…
The Kennebec County Sheriff’s Department busted a trio of alleged drug traffickers on Wednesday when they executed a search warrant…
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The Portland Police Department is investigating the city’s second bank robbery within the span of a week after a masked…
Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey has responded to the Trump Administration’s effort to reverse course on the regulation of greenhouse…
Federal authorities have moved further to reverse course on the Biden administration’s embrace of offshore wind power infrastructure in recent…
The Maine Department of Corrections (DOC) ordered the Piscataquis County Jail to stop taking on new inmates as of Tuesday,…
Former fitness executive Ben Midgley announced his gubernatorial run in Kennebunkport on Tuesday, pledging to commit 100 percent of his…
As speculation grows over possible 2026 Democrat candidates for U.S. senator from Maine, one most-obvious name hardly ever comes up.…
A veteran Maine radio jock says he’ll never forget: ladies and gentlemen, the one, the only, Hulk Hogan… walking into…
The Somerset County Sheriff’s Department arrested an Old Town man on Friday for alleged gross sexual assault against a child…
A Brooks man was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Tuesday for the 2022 murder of his girlfriend’s father…
As the Trump administration wages a war against foreign nationals daring to vote in American elections, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration…
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Are the robust enrollments rates experienced by Maine’s community colleges over the past few years about to substantially contract? In…
Border Patrol agents from Maine’s Houlton sector busted an illegal alien gang member from Colombia last month who was the…
A Sanford man is in police custody after allegedly driving a truck into an apartment building early Friday morning before…
A leading Maine rabbi is calling a foul on the state’s junior senator for dropping Israeli support based on false…
When Washington, DC super-lawyer Marc Elias gleefully “threaded” a story about Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows telling the U.S.…
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A Texas-born former FBI agent has joined the crowd of Democrats seeking to become Maine’s next chief executive officer. Jason…
Many Mainers will likely see the cost of their health insurance increase by double-digits next year in what regulators are…
The chief of Maine’s Capitol Police was arrested Friday after allegedly assaulting a local police officer outside a Hallowell bar,…
Border patrol agents attached to Maine’s Houlton border sector operating out of Jackman Station arrested a group of 13 Romanian…
Mainers are facing the highest year-over-year energy rate increase in the nation, surging by over a third, according to a…
As the 2025 Fiscal Year came to a close last month, Maine’s General Fund turned out to have a $152.2…
A growing leftist ideology in the Episcopal church may be the reason Russian clergymen – former Episcopalians – are expanding…
The University of Maine System spent nearly $2 million on out-of-state trips, according to recently released 2025 first quarter data,…
The Portland Police Department is searching for a masked bank robber in connection with an apparently successful robbery at a…
Maine’s largest newspaper’s experiment in covering its outlier towns from Portland was apparently doomed from the start. Duh. The Portland…
Substandard repairs and a slow bureaucracy have caused U.S. Navy ships to sit in repair yards for years without being…
The Rockland police department’s patrols for drivers operating under the influence (OUI) led to a slew of drug arrests over…
Maine Capitol Police Chief Matthew M. Clancy, 62, of Sidney, was taken to the ground, cuffed and stuffed after biting…
Penobscot County sheriff’s deputies took two suspects into custody following an incident in Glenburn on Sunday, when a group of…
Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have made just under 150,000 arrests since the start of January, according to ICE data…
The group behind last fall’s ballot initiative placing new limits on Super PAC contributions has appealed a federal judge’s ruling…
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Maine’s version of government-run, taxpayer-financed state media, popularly dubbed “public broadcasting,” will likely have to find a new source of…
Fresh on the heels of blocking The Maine Wire from one of his “public” events, Democrat Senate hopeful Jordan Wood…
Anyone who thinks Augusta is woefully out-of-shape with ballooning state budgets and piddling performance on everything from the quality of…
President Donald Trump has threatened to stall trade talks with Canada late Wednesday night after Canada’s move to recognize a…
Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey has joined a coalition of twenty-one Democrat-led states in suing the Trump Administration over a…
Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) signed on to co-sponsor a Democrat-led bill late last month that would make it easier for…
A supermarket sale flyer denying Maine customers a discount on a gallon of milk has lit a fire under free-market…
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) announced a contract awarded to Bath Iron Works on Thursday for the construction of a new…
A bitter contract dispute in federal court is shining an unflattering spotlight on a booming, under-regulated corner of America’s hemp…
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Maine’s legal cannabis programs prohibit individuals with “disqualifying drug offenses” from becoming licensed business operators in either the adult-use recreational…
Not a good idea to stop on the main road into Acadia or Baxter to bear-watch. No, not because the…
A world-renowned 20th-century sculptor who put Rockland, Maine on the map loved scrounging in trash bins for scrap wood. That’s…
The Brewer Police Department arrested two people in a public park on Tuesday after they were allegedly discovered with drugs…
The federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced earlier this week that it intends to rescind the 2009 declaration that has…
The Coast Guard is calling for increased mast inspections of commercial wooden sailing ships in the wake of a fatal…
A South Paris Man died on Saturday during a private fireworks show in Roxbury when he was struck by a…
The Portland Planning Board is close to approving an “affordable housing” complex on city land targeted towards “diverse families and…
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaking at the Democratic National Convention, Aug. 19, 2024. (Screen Capture/CSPAN)
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A former longtime top editor of Maine’s largest legacy newspaper is blasting its latest iteration as an “embarrassment.” Cliff Schechtman,…
The quality of Maine’s early education system was found to be one of the worst in the nation despite a…
Maine has signed onto a lawsuit against the Trump Administration challenging its new prohibitions on providing access to certain social…
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Update: After the publication of this article, the owner of Blaze Bangor, Matthew Haskell, spoke with The Maine Wire, informing…
A routine traffic stop on Tuesday in Rockland led to two arrests following a brief struggle with officers after they…
Eric Small is not a typical politician. When he decided to run for Congress earlier this week, there was no…
York County Sheriff’s Deputies arrested a Lyman man in Biddeford on Tuesday after responding to reports of a vehicle being…
Jordan Wood, a longtime Washington, D.C. staffer running as a Democrat to unseat Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) displayed the true…
Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows has refused a request from the Trump Administration to turn over the state’s voter…
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The First Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday to uphold the lower court’s dismissal of a Maine mom’s lawsuit against…
A federal appeals court on Monday affirmed the dismissal of a lawsuit brought by a Maine mother who accused public…
U.S. Senator Angus King (I-Maine) wants the U.S. government to suspend its assistance to Israel, America’s key ally in the…
The Portland Police Department assisted with an FBI operation in Portland on Tuesday morning that appeared to involve numerous armed…
Two Massachusetts women have died from severe burns after their camper exploded on Saturday at Old Orchard Beach’s Powder Horn…
By Kendall Tietz Maine was one of the first states to publicly denounce President Trump’s executive actions on gender policy.…
A Republican state legislator who bravely sponsored bills to keep boys out of women’s sports and bathrooms quickly found out…
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Never try to outdo the animal-rights clique when it comes to creating a media spectacle. To wit, People for Ethical…
Former FBI agent Peter Strzok deleted all of his posts on the social media site X Monday. Director of National…
Maine’s Drug Enforcement Agency (MDEA) busted five alleged drug traffickers in a Searsport raid on Friday that exposed New-York based…
An attempted firearms purchase led to the arrest of a Jamaican citizen who the town of Old Orchard Beach had…
Maine Sen. Susan Collins (R) announced Friday that the Trump Administration has agreed to release the rest of Maine’s public…
A longtime liberal D.C. newspaper “fact checker” is on the way out, suggesting that Maine’s newspaper fact police might want…
A collective of water-sports enthusiasts and fishermen will hold two ceremonies to honor the memory of a Maine paddleboarder killed…
The Portland Police Department has yet to release the name of a suspect arrested on Saturday for an alleged shooting…
Wells’ aging liberals have banded together in recent months to stage weekly protests against the police department’s paused collaboration agreement…
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A Brazilian illegal immigrant caught in Maine in May following a deportation four years ago will now face no additional…
A Phillips community activist played ‘Karen’ earlier this month and hectored Franklin County State Representative Michael Soboleski (R-Phillips) out of…
A South Portland Man faces an array of charges after he allegedly stabbed someone numerous time on Sunday night following…
The planet-wide intrigue stemming from a high-brow alleged affair between two top-level NY execs has now moved to Kennebunk, Maine.…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) has signed a bill into law prohibiting pharmacies from selling tobacco products beginning in April…
Maine Rep. Deqa Dhalac (D-South Portland), a Somali immigrant and Maine politician, has garnered national attention in recent days after…