Officials announced Thursday morning that there not believed to be any survivors from the crash that occurred late Wednesday night…
President Donald Trump’s Office of Personnel Management (OPM) offered on Tuesday to give all federal employees nearly eight months of…
The Portland Police Department says they have made significant progress in recent years with their investigations into unsolved homicides, with…
Maine elementary and middle school students are continuing to struggle academically, according to the 2024 Nation’s Report Card. The National…
A columnist who’s among several ousted by Maine’s largest daily paper fears that the next shoe to drop may be…
A federal judge in Manhattan sentenced former U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-New Jersey) to 11 years in prison on Wednesday…
If the crash Wednesday night of a plane into the Potomac River is reminiscent to Mainers, it’s for good reason.…
An American Airlines flight out of Wichita, Kansas crashed in the Washington D.C. area Wednesday night near the Reagan National…
President Donald Trump’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) rescinded a memorandum freezing some federal grant spending that could have…
In a meandering and at times pedantic speech Tuesday night, Gov. Janet Mills (D) defended her proposed FY 26-27 spending…
The Maine Department of Education (Maine DOE) is seeking grant applications for $650,000 in available funding that will go towards…
A member of the international crime gang MS-13 who illegally entered the U.S. and was released into the country under…
(Editor’s Note: The following opinion editorial represents the opinion and perspective of the MMCM and its leadership.) Protect Small Businesses:…
Below is the full transcript of Gov. Janet Mills’ full “State of the Budget” speech, delivered to a joint session…
The two suspects accused in the fatal shooting of Vermont Border Patrol Agent David Maland, 44, have been identified as…
A week after President Donald Trump signed an executive order designating drug cartels as terrorist organizations, cartel terrorists opened fire…
Lt. Col. Tulsi Gabbard, President Donald Trump’s nominee for Director of National Intelligence, faces a series of challenges to her…
A Sanford man was sentenced to a decade in federal prison this week for the possession of fentanyl after police…
A previously deported illegal alien charged in Massachusetts with sex crimes, assault and armed robbery was arrested by U.S. Immigrations…
The Maine Department of Labor (MDOL) released two guides Monday for employers looking to opt out of the state’s new…
Gov. Janet Mills (D) delivered her 2025 State of the Budget Address to a joint session of the Maine Legislature…
Rep. Kevin Kiley (R-Calif.) put forward a bill last week that would prevent states from using either federal or state…
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt of New Hampshire held the Trump Administration’s first official press briefing Tuesday afternoon. At…
Gov. Janet Mills (D) will deliver her annual address to a joint session of the Maine State Legislature tonight starting…
A total of 11 men are now facing charges of engaging a person for prostitution following a December raid on…
10:55am State House, Augusta This morning the Maine Senate took up the nomination of Heather Sanborn to be Maine’s next…
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) took five suspected illegal aliens into federal custody at Maine’s Cumberland County Jail on…
A “career felon” with 12 prior convictions has been sentenced to 17 years in prison for drug trafficking and firearm…
Maine is at rock bottom. The state is half a billion dollars in the hole, even after receiving an unprecedented…
The Maine House of Representatives is scheduled to convene Tuesday at 10 a.m. in Augusta. Late January House session days…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) and her finance commissioner have remained silent in the face of bipartisan condemnation of the…
Editor’s Note: This story has been updated with a statement from Colombian President Gustavo Petro in response to President Trump’s…
The New Hampshire State Police arrested two suspects in Franklin, NH, on Thursday and seized over a thousand grams of…
President Donald Trump has fulfilled his promise to embrace cryptocurrency, with a Thursday executive order promoting digital assets and prohibiting…
A teenager who was injured in a shooting in Lewiston last week is refusing to cooperate with investigators, Lewiston Police…
Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey’s (D) office claimed on Friday that its investigation of the numerous hotels converted into illegal immigrant…
An illegal alien who entered the United States as a “gotaway” and was convicted of lewd acts with a minor…
The United States Supreme Court is set to consider the constitutionality of the nation’s first religious charter school. Originating in…
An illegal alien who entered the U.S. for the fourth time as a “gotaway” was deported back to his home…
Auburn Police are investigating a shots fired incident that occurred in the Grove Street neighborhood Sunday evening after a verbal…
A minor earthquake struck Maine late Monday morning, rattling residents across parts of New England but causing no immediate reports…
Republican lawmakers have proposed creating a minimum “student wage” in Maine, allowing employers to pay some high school students a…
A leading progressive law firm in Maine is advising public school officials on how they can effectively resist potential immigration…
Maine lawmakers have introduced a bipartisan bill that would incrementally increase the state’s property tax homestead exemption over the next…
State House staff have published the final list of legislative proposals that state lawmakers will consider during the 132nd Legislature…
The Senate confirmed Pete Hegseth as the nation’s Secretary of Defense in a vote held late Friday night. With three…
An American citizen and a Canadian citizen were robbed and attacked by two armed suspected Mexican cartel terrorists while hiking…
Matt Brackley had a sense of foreboding long before the FBI showed up at his home two days after he…
President Donald Trump terminated Dr. Anthony Fauci’s security detail provided by the National Institutes of Health on Thursday, a source…
Town officials in Gray revealed during a Wednesday meeting of the Zoning Board of Appeals that an applicant to the…
The superintendent of Lewiston Public Schools issued an announcement on Thursday on the “real fear” among the school community regarding…
President Donald Trump issued a full pardon on Thursday for 23 pro-life activists who were incarcerated after the Biden Administration…
The Maine Department of Public Safety, through the Bureau of Emergency Medical Services (MEMS), has announced the availability of $1…
President Donald Trump froze the ability of unelected bureaucrats at federal agencies to impose rules that affect the whole nation…
I was a defender on the pages of the Ellsworth American in November 2018 of Republican Sen. Susan Collins’s courageous…
A previously convicted felon was arrested Wednesday after Lewiston Police found a firearm in his apartment during a search connected…
The U.S. State Department, under Trump’s chosen Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, announced its new “One Flag” policy, preventing federal…
Some Maine students are granted the ability to attend a public school outside of their home district through what is…
An Auburn man who was out on bail conditions stemming from an October arrest on drug trafficking and firearms charges…
Weeks after former President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of all but three federal death row inmates, President Donald Trump…
A federal judge has blocked President Donald Trump’s (R) Executive Order redefining birthright citizenship. This comes just days after several…
The Maine State Police, along with a Maine Marine Patrol dive team, discovered the sunken wreck of a missing fishing…
An illegal Haitian migrant openly praised former Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden as Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) agents…
On Jan. 1, working people across the state of Maine started paying their share of a new one percent tax…
U.S. Senator from Maine Susan Collins was one of just two Republicans to join Democrats on Thursday in voting against…
A sanctuary city mayor, who once suggested he’d use his police force to stop deportation officers and be willing to…
A Maine lawmaker has put forward a proposal that would create certain incarcerated individuals to obtain loans so that they…
At the opening of their Tuesday meeting, several members of the Portland Board of Public Education responded to “unsettling” comments…
A self-described independent investigative journalist admitted Tuesday to falsely accusing a pro-Trump activist of providing drugs and alcohol to a…
Two Democratic lawmakers escalated their efforts to obtain long-overdue reports on Maine’s cannabis industry on Wednesday, writing a letter to…
A group of Democratic lawmakers have put forward a plan to restructure Maine’s income tax brackets, a proposal that will…
Republican lawmakers urged the U.S. Coast Guard on Wednesday to take “decisive action” against a Chinese military company that has…
The U.S. military will order more than a thousand additional active duty troops to assist with U.S. Customs and Border…
Cumberland County Sheriff’s deputies arrested two men driving an allegedly stolen vehicle on Friday, following a high-speed car chase, crash,…
Maine’s Department of Education (DOE) issued a statement on Tuesday opposing President Donald Trump’s day-one executive order that officially acknowledges…
President Donald Trump is working to make America beautiful again with a day-one executive order requiring new federal buildings to…
President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Monday that will substantially reduce federal support for offshore wind power and…
Following President Donald Trump’s day one promise to put America first, he signed an executive order on Monday placing a…
Lawmakers in Augusta will be considering a proposal to establish “hope accounts” for Maine students who either are home-schooled or…
Authorities made six arrests during a Tuesday morning search of a Sanford residence being investigated as the site of suspected…
A Canadian national has pleaded guilty to illegally crossing the border into Maine while in possession of methamphetamine and marijuana.…
President Donald Trump was lectured about showing ‘mercy’ to illegal immigrants and transgender children during a sermon from a left-wing…
A group of Maine Republicans have introduced legislation that would withdraw the state from the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact,…
The State of Maine, as well as the American Civil Liberties Union of Maine (ACLU Maine), have filed lawsuits against…
Xisen Guo, 68, pleaded guilty Jan. 14 to federal drug trafficking charges, becoming the first individual in Maine to do…
Vermont border patrol agent, 44-year-old David Maland, was killed in a shooting while conducting a traffic stop on Interstate 91…
President Donald Trump signed a wide array of executive orders related to immigration policy and the southern border on his…
President Donald Trump officially withdrew the U.S. from the World Health Organization (WHO) and cut all funding for the international…
No member of Maine’s congressional delegation has been a supporter of President Donald Trump, with the only Republican, Sen. Susan…
A man armed with a machete was shot and tased by police early Tuesday morning on the Merrymeeting Bridge in…
The Senate Armed Services Committee voted Monday along party lines to send President Donald Trump’s pick for Defense Secretary, Pete…
Sanford Police announced Tuesday morning that they are conducting a joint operation alongside the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency and the…
Northern Light Health, the nonprofit that operates some of Maine’s largest health care providers, is bringing back COVID-19 Era mask…
The Maine Gambling Control Unit (MGCU) reported that sportsbooks in the state accepted $52.7 million in bets during December, a…
Maine’s Land Use Planning Commission (LUPC) unveiled new rules on Friday that will impose additional red tape on Maine property…
“An Act to Define and Assess Equity” would require Maine state agencies, public K-12 schools, and the University of Maine…
China on Sunday revealed a national action plan to strengthen its education system by 2035 and bolster the country’s “international…
The nine former members of the January 6 Select Committee appeared to accept preemptive pardons issued by former President Biden…
Donald J. Trump, once a twice-impeached political pariah navigating the stormy seas of legal battles, made history Monday by becoming…
At his final pre-inauguration rally on Sunday night, President Trump promised to order the military to begin construction on a…






















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