A costly dockworkers’ strike could ignite just days before President-elect Donald Trump takes office, presenting the Republican’s administration with a…
Maine lawmakers are set to receive a 61 percent higher salary than their predecessors when they reconvene next week. This…
A Dominican national living in the U.S. illegally since crossing the southern border into Texas in early 2023 was arrested…
Six Worcester, Massachusetts, college students are facing felony kidnapping charges after a botched October attempt to participate in the online…
President Joe Biden selected 20 Americans to receive the Presidential Citizens Medal on Wednesday, including former Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney,…
At its upcoming meeting on Monday, the Portland City Council will consider issuing a Request for Proposals (RFP) for the…
The FBI issued an update Thursday on the terrorist attack that took place in the early hours of the day…
Maine’s Democratic leaders held a press conference in Bath on Thursday to tout the beginning of a new program that…
Illegal immigrants from the violent Venezuelan Tren de Aragua (TdA) gang assaulted an El Paso, Texas, border crossing in December,…
Beginning Monday, Maine childcare facilities are no longer permitted to use baby gates under most circumstances. Under the new guidance…
New York is poised to fine energy companies billions of dollars in the name of fighting climate change under a…
After taking heavy losses from Israeli forces, Hamas is now picking fights with the Palestinian Authority (PA) as its manpower…
Law enforcement seized a large quantity of cocaine, fentanyl, meth and other illegal drugs, as well as seven firearms during…
Advocates for Voter ID laws in Maine will mark a significant milestone on Monday with the submission of over 170,000…
A 16-year-old girl was shot in the leg and her older sister was injured during an assault on Dennison Street…
As many as 40 percent of the noncitizens present in Maine, including those who entered the U.S. illegally and those…
The South Portland Police Department is investigating a shooting that occurred late Sunday night at an apartment complex. Police responded…
A routine traffic stop on I-295 in Richmond on Dec. 28 turned into a major drug bust, leading to the…
Portland Police are investigating a shooting that occurred early Tuesday morning that left a man with non-life threatening injuries. [RELATED:…
Beginning on Wednesday, January 1, Maine’s minimum wage will go up to $14.65 per hour — a fifty cent increase…
The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Maine CDC) is paying a Portland-based nonprofit $90,000 to form a stakeholder…
Arkansas State Police arrested a 53-year-old Oklahoma man on Christmas Eve after a traffic stop led to the discovery of…
Maine has been treated to a near non-stop barrage of demands that we acquiesce to the lucrative demands of the…
President-elect Donald Trump (R) has endorsed Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) to again serve as Speaker of the House for the…
Many of Maine’s elected officials have issued statements following the death of former President Jimmy Carter at the age of…
The Portland Police Department has announced that they responded to a shooting incident late Sunday night, marking the third shooting…
A Dominican national who was arrested on drug trafficking charges after allegedly attempting to hide a bag of crack cocaine…
A Maine legislative committee has been blocked by the state’s highest court from requiring a state agency to turn over…
Senator Rand Paul released his annual Festivus Report highlighting the most egregious examples of government waste on Friday, as Elon…
Some Maine voters will again be asked to go to the ballot box in February to fill a now-vacant seat…
Maine’s unemployment rate has increased slightly since October, rising to 3.1 percent. Despite this, unemployment in Maine still came in…
A federal judge ruled earlier this week that the trial for Ryan Routh — the man accused of attempting to…
The shooting of a 34-year-old Virginia man whose body was discovered in Edgecomb on Dec. 3 is tied to an…
A little-known environmental provision in the fiscal year 2025 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) has no impact on military operations,…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) has issued an executive order to establish a commission that will study what she called…
Gov. Janet Mills (D) announced last week that she is establishing a 21-member Artificial Intelligence task force, meant to compile…
The U.S. launched a probe into China’s semiconductor industry on Monday with just weeks remaining in President Joe Biden’s term.…
President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 out of the 40 federal death row inmates in the U.S. on…
Two Californians arrested after allegedly stealing $1,836 worth of products from various stores in Seal Beach, California, went viral on…
U.S. Congresswoman from Texas, Rep. Kay Granger (R), has been living in an assisted living facility that provides dementia care,…
President Joe Biden has pulled the plug on his most ambitious pre-election promise to cancel student loan debt for more…
A Guatemalan illegal alien who was deported under the Trump Administration has been arrested for allegedly setting a sleeping subway…
The federal government under President Joe Biden has engaged in broad efforts to censor Americans’ speech and manipulate information relevant…
The CEO of the nonprofit group that owns most of Maine’s newspapers received a massive pay increase for 2023, a…
President-elect Donald Trump threatened in a Truth Social post Friday to impose tariffs on the European Union (EU) unless the…
Despite having one more month left in office, President Joe Biden has been radio silent as Congress scrambles to put…
Pentagon spokesman Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder admitted on Thursday that the U.S. has more than double the number of troops…
The State of Maine is hiring a former professional casino gambling cheat to train the state’s casino inspectors, table game…
Maine’s housing market is looking promising for buyers in the final month of 2024 despite prices increasing substantially in comparison…
The Rockland Police Department and U.S. Border Patrol were involved in a raid at an Asian massage parlor in Rockland…
President Joe Biden wasted no time leveraging a tragic Monday shooting at the Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin,…
South Portland Police have identified two suspects they are searching for in relation to a Wednesday afternoon shooting that stemmed…
U.S. Senator from Maine Susan Collins (R) this week met with Kash Patel, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the…
State House Republicans are joining calls for reform at the Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) after 145…
The U.S. House failed to pass a temporary continuing resolution (CR) funding bill on Thursday, bringing the government closer to…
The Maine State Police are investigating a homicide that is tied to the location of a former illegal Chinese marijuana…
The Somali Embassy in Washington, D.C., hired the services of the political lobbying firm BGR Group last month, just weeks…
Republican Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa introduced legislation Thursday that would send nearly a third of the federal employees out…
Two months after launch and one month after moving to waiting list procedures due to high demand, the Maine State…
The Cape Elizabeth Town Council voted unanimously Monday in favor of covering both the employer and employee contributions to the…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills has named Tarlan Ahmadov, a former refugee coordinator with Catholic Charities Maine, as the first director…
H5N1 bird flu has been making headlines sporadically throughout 2024, fueling fears of another, deadlier, COVID-style pandemic. On Thursday, the…
The South Portland Police Department is investigating a shooting incident that occurred late Wednesday afternoon in the parking lot of…
Authorities seized nearly 1,500 marijuana plants, 53 pounds of processed marijuana, and other items during a drug raid at a…
Three Chinese nationals — only one of which was present in the U.S. legally — have been arrested in York…
The Town of Cape Elizabeth is revisiting the possibility of constructing a new middle school after voters narrowly rejected $94.7…
Retailer T.J. Maxx and automaker Kia are listed as co-sponsors of a program that distributes LGBTQ-themed books to K-12 schools…
The United States Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments on January 10 in TikTok’s challenge to a federal…
The Ellsworth City Council suggested at a Monday meeting that it might eliminate the ability for citizens to comment at…
United States Congressional leaders released another short-term funding agreement Tuesday night that, if passed, would keep the government open through…
An Augusta man pleaded guilty Tuesday in a federal court in Bangor to distributing and possessing child sexual abuse material,…
The Fulshear, Texas, police department arrested Venezuelan national Pedro Luis Parra Pulgar, 46, after he allegedly tried to murder his…
Maine’s Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife has issued a nearly $70,000, no-bid contract, set to last through all of…
The City of Portland’s lobbyist the to Maine Legislature admitted during a Tuesday meeting with the city’s elected officials that…
A heavily redacted record obtained after a lengthy legal fight of Maine’s Freedom of Access Act. Gov. Janet Mills (D-Maine)…
Update: The Lewiston Police Department released the following Facebook post, including images of the alleged suspects, after this story was…
A total of 30 inmates at Cumberland County Jail have booking records that indicate that they were either arrested by…
Then-national climate adviser Gina McCarthy appears to have met directly with Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in…
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson’s record slim majority could face greater division following a GOP lawmaker’s announcement that she…
TikTok and it’s Chinese-owned parent company ByteDance have asked the United States Supreme Court to block a law that could…
Two Iranian men who illegally conspired to arm the Islamic Republic of Iran with U.S. drone technology, culminating in an…
President Joe Biden will sign a proclamation Monday establishing a national monument in honor of former Secretary of Labor Frances…
At Monday evening’s meeting of the Portland City Council, Board of Public Education Chair Sarah Lentz presented the annual State…
The Maine Department of Labor (MDOL) released a report this week exploring the state’s projected job outlook through 2032, outlining…
U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson took time away from her job in the nation’s highest court on…
Top Maine Democrats and the Mayor of Lewiston joined President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden for a holiday…
A notable critic of President-elect Donald Trump appears to be gearing up to oppose key parts of the incoming administration’s…
A Holden man with a troubling criminal history is back in custody after a domestic violence incident, raising questions about…
A bombshell Department of Justice (DOJ) report confirmed on Thursday that 26 undercover FBI informants were operating in the crowd…
On Jan. 1, working Mainers will ring in the new year with an unwelcome gift from State House Democrats: the…
The Washington Post’s editorial board acknowledged that the alleged evidence showing the benefits of so-called “gender-affirming care” for minors could…
Editor’s Note: An earlier version of this story incorrectly attributed the District 64 license plate to the newly elected representative…
Over 60 percent of Americans are supportive of expanding educational freedom for students nationwide, according to a new poll conducted…
Sen. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) urged President Joe Biden on Thursday to alter the U.S.’s…
The Auburn Police Department is investigating a shots fired incident involving a group of teenagers that occurred Saturday night in…
The United States House of Representatives approved a bill Tuesday limiting the Department of Energy’s (DOE) authority to enforce energy…
The former president of a Vermont labor union that represents federal employees has pleaded guilty to a charge of wire…
Rep. Josh Morris (R-Turner) has formally submitted a bill that, if passed, would repeal the state’s new payroll tax—set to…
While the massive MAGA wave that swept the country on November 5th didn’t exactly wash over Maine, it certainly did…
As Maine continues to struggle with how to confront the sprawling networks of Chinese criminal organizations that have taken the…