President-elect Donald Trump took to social media on Monday to announce his plan to impose massive tariffs on China, Mexico,…
The Maine Climate Council has released an updated version of the state’s four-year plan concerning climate change, “Maine Won’t Wait.”…
President-elect Donald Trump selected Dr. Jeanette Nesheiwat on Friday to serve as the U.S. Surgeon General, despite her past support…
Maine State Police arrested 26-year-old Samuel Bell on Sunday after he allegedly shot and attempted to murder his mother in…
A federal judge in Bangor has ruled against five Maine lobstermen who sued Maine Department of Marine Fisheries (MDMR) Commissioner…
U.S. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) will take over as the head of the extremely influential Senate Appropriations Committee after Republicans…
A Franklin County man who was charged in an alleged marijuana conspiracy is taking his case to the U.S. Supreme…
U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) accused Secretary of State Antony Blinken last week in a letter of using taxpayer money…
An Auburn man who was the subject of the months-long in investigation into suspecting drug dealing activities was arrested Wednesday…
Lame-duck President Joe Biden’s administration is making changes to policies governing illegal immigrants already in the U.S., according to sources…
The median price of homes in Maine has increased more than five percent compared to this same time last year,…
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) seized 11,100 rounds of ammunition earlier this month when they examined a vehicle attempting…
President-elect Donald Trump picked former Florida Attorney General (AG) Pam Bondi to take the top spot in his Department of…
Just a week before Thanksgiving, the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry (DACF) demanded that a longtime Somerset County…
Republican President-elect Donald Trump has tapped former Small Business Administration head and WWE wrestling co-founder Linda McMahon to head the…
On Tuesday, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg requested to delay former and President-elect Donald Trump’s sentencing on the thirty-four felony…
Republican U.S. Sen. Susan Collins opposes Trump’s push for recess appointments, which would allow him to quickly put his cabinet…
A Maine Republican lawmaker who a week before election day turned himself in to police over an alleged aggravated assault…
Criminal illegal migrants continue to be apprehended in Massachusetts as the state’s Democratic leaders make clear their opposition to President-elect…
At a Tuesday meeting of the Portland Board of Public Education, at-large member and Board Chair Sarah Lentz claimed that…
Former U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz has withdrawn his name from consideration for United States Attorney General. This decision comes after…
A coalition of New England based think tanks released an extensive report Wednesday in collaboration with Always on Energy Research…
The Maine Department of Economic and Community Development has awarded $260,000 to a coalition of Maine-based defense contractors and educational…
Tom’s of Maine — a popular toothpaste brand celebrated for it’s use of all-natural ingredients — has violated federal rules…
Socialist Portland City Councilor Kate Sykes’ proposal for a task force to study how city might utilize a new “social…
Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham penned a letter to President-Elect Donald Trump on Tuesday, offering to give his incoming administration…
The Mills administration has allocated funds to extend pediatric behavioral health programs run by MaineHealth for an additional year that…
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-La.) banned biological males from the women’s restrooms at the Capitol on Wednesday after…
A handful of pediatricians who perform sex-change procedures on children led a successful pressure campaign to push a major transgender…
A Portland man who was previously convicted for the possession of child pornography has been sentenced to 12 years in…
A new post-election poll of likely voters from Echelon Insights found that Democrats favor Vice President Kamala Harris to head…
Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) arrested 46-year-old Stacey Ray Lancaster of Hudson, New Hampshire, a high school teacher, as part of…
Five additional suspects have been arrested by Portland Police in recent days in connection to a July shooting on Forest…
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) announced on Friday that it has failed its seventh consecutive audit and is unable…
Friday, a federal judge in Texas blocked the United States Department of Labor (DOL) from increasing the maximum salary threshold…
U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) put forward a resolution on Monday requiring representatives and staff at the U.S. House and…
Republicans and Democrats in the Massachusetts State House united on Thursday to support a bill that State Auditor Diana DiZoglio…
At the start of this year, Democratic Congressman Jared Golden (ME-02) signed onto a letter urging the Biden administration to…
The illegal alien who in April caused a fatal car crash on I-95 in April, leaving an Albion woman dead…
Maine’s newly launched Eviction Pilot Program—designed to “help tenants who may be facing eviction and the loss of their housing”—has…
A contingent of Maine State Representatives, accompanied by Franklin County Sheriff Scott Nichols, recently visited the Northern Border Port of…
Thousands of American kids are being sent to camps run by a Chinese influence and intelligence agency that promote Chinese…
A longtime resident of Portland’s Bayside neighborhood who says she was the victim of a brutal mugging is warning women…
U.S. Sen. Susan Collins (R) made it known during a campaign stop in Vassalboro Friday that she intends to seek…
The Maine Secretary of State on Monday continued with a series of recounts in races for the State Legislature that…
The University of Maine (UMaine) has decided to sell the Hutchinson Center to Waldo Community Action Partners (WCAP) following a…
The Maine Human Rights Commission (MHRC) cleared University of Southern Maine Sociology and Education Professor Dr. Christy Hammer of any…
President-elect Donald Trump has courted controversy with many of his cabinet picks, choosing divisive figures like Robert F. Kennedy Jr.…
Sanford City Clerk Sue Cote told the City Council during their meeting last Tuesday that the Nov. 5 election, the…
The York County Sheriff’s Office is looking for the owner of an 8-foot Boa constrictor a deputy found on the…
A Scarborough man who was found passed out in his car at a Portland gas station was arrested after the…
Dozens of investment advisors warned America’s biggest corporations Friday that their diversity programs will be a liability under the incoming…
Maine Wire readers and talk radio listeners this week may have followed the imbroglio between me and the Secretary of…
Maine’s Second Congressional District is headed for a recount that could last weeks after incumbent Democratic U.S. Rep. Jared Golden…
It’s been a while since Chris Busby libelously claimed that I’m a paid subscriber to The Bollard newsletter in an…
In response to President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of a decorated military veteran and best-selling author to head the Department of…
Sanctuary jurisdictions have freed tens of thousands of criminal migrants during President Joe Biden’s time in the White House, federal…
A Damariscotta man will spend 18 years in federal prison for the possession and distribution of child sexual abuse material,…
President-elect Donald Trump’s second administration is coming into focus as the Republican announces, mostly via social media, who will serve…
A traffic stop Wednesday afternoon in Topsham led to the arrest of a an illegal alien on felony drug trafficking…
The Cape Elizabeth Town Council voted Wednesday night in favor of directing the Town Manager to offer the Cookie Jar…
The Maine Secretary of State’s Office announced Thursday that recounts have been scheduled in nine races for seats in the…
President-elect Donald Trump continues to send shockwaves through Washington, D.C., and American politics as his proposed cabinet picks bring into…
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has ruled against a motion filed by several anonymous men seeking to keep their identities…
A Maine resident, who asked to remain anonymous, finally received a response to a Feb. 2024 request for public records…
The developers behind the controversial Yard South project in South Portland have withdrawn their application for special zoning permissions and…
A Maine man who allegedly confronted and shot at Cumberland County Sheriff’s deputies with a firearm outside of a residence…
In December 2023, Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows made the unilateral decision to remove Republican President-elect Donald Trump from…
The Maine Secretary of State’s office responded Wednesday to inquiries from media, party officials, elected representatives, and political professionals about…
The Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) has granted nearly half a million dollars to a Lewiston-based nonprofit…
The Bayside neighborhood in Portland has accounted for nearly a third of the city’s arrests and about 40 percent of…
Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey announced on Tuesday that a Portland woman has been found guilty of charge of theft…
Republican South Dakota Sen. John Thune won a three-way race to lead Senate Republicans’ 53-seat majority for the first two…
The Guardian announced Wednesday that they will no longer post from their editorial accounts on X, formerly known as Twitter,…
Voter ID for ME has gathered more than double the number of signatures required to create a ballot measure, giving…
President-elect Donald Trump has chosen former New York Congressman Lee Zeldin (R) to serve in his cabinet as the administrator…
Californians overwhelmingly rejected their state’s soft-on-crime policies, voting on Tuesday to increase penalties for various types of non-violent crimes, while…
Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey (D) promised on MSNBC on Wednesday that she would not allow the Massachusetts State Police to…
President-elect Donald Trump selected Tom Homan as the administration’s “Border Czar” on Sunday, choosing an immigration hardliner to take over…
In a statement issued following former President Donald Trump’s resounding victory over Vice President Kamala Harris last week, the executive…
South Portland residents approved two of the three bonds on this year’s ballot but rejected a $12.3 million proposal to…
Four suspects were arrested on drug charges last week after the Somerset County Sheriff’s Office found approximately $40,000 in methamphetamine,…
As nationwide focus revolved around last Tuesday’s Presidential and Congressional elections, eleven states also decided on their governors. [RELATED: Golden,…
Nearly 60 percent of Portland voters supported a measure Tuesday allowing local emergency wage provisions to go into effect only…
Voters in Bar Harbor narrowly rejected a proposal Tuesday that would have overturned a 2022 ordinance capping the number of…
Ranked Choice Voting was sold to Maine voters as a silver bullet that would clean up Maine politics, eliminate spoiler…
A Maine doctor has been arrested and charged with sex trafficking after being accused of running an illicit massage business…
On the heels of a disappointing election Tuesday for Maine Republicans, in which they failed to obtain a majority in…
On Tuesday, Mainers made their voices heard not only on a number of key state, federal, and local elections, but…
Voters in Cape Elizabeth narrowly rejected a $94.7 million school improvement plan that included the construction of a new middle…
The Lincoln Academy in Newcastle is offering a support room for high school students struggling emotionally with President Donald Trump’s…
Editor’s Note: The first version of this story misinterpreted the “blank” vote totals as ballots that had been cast blank…
Maine’s Second Congressional District race between incumbent Democratic U.S. Rep. Jared Golden and Republican State Rep. Austin Theriault is headed…
Republicans in the State House of Representatives—fresh off yet another disappointing election cycle—are poised to cast votes for leadership positions…
Republican State Rep. Austin Theriault will demand a recount of the election results from his race against Democratic incumbent U.S.…
Wes Pelletier, a longtime member of the Maine Democratic Socialists of America (Maine DSA) was elected to the Portland City…
Democratic U.S. Rep. Jared Golden emerged victorious in the highly contentious battle for Maine’s Second Congressional District seat, defeating challenger…
Former President Donald J. Trump (R) has been elected to serve as the 47th President of the United States. The…
Former President Donald J. Trump survived coordinated lawfare, two assassination attempts, collusion among major tech companies, and a sustained negative…
Two Maine citizens have threatened to sue Secretary of State Shenna Bellows for improper voter roll maintenance unless action is…