Maine’s Right to Know Advisory Committee (RTKAC) — a government body designed to advise on government transparency and public record…
More than half a million illegal immigrants with pending immigration cases with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have a…
A member of a Portland Public Schools committee charged with redrawing the school district’s attendance boundaries in order to address…
A longtime Democratic politician and government employee has been hired in a $121,000-a-year position at the Maine Department of Education…
The Vermont State Police and the Maine State Police both detained investigative journalist James O’Keefe while he was investigating a…
U.S. Sen. Angus King (I-Maine), who has for years fashioned himself as an “independent” or a “moderate” despite backing exclusively…
A homeless man who earlier this year was charged with assaulting people with a machete, and who a month ago…
Former President Donald Trump called for criminal charges to be brought against U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) for insider trading…
The U.S. Congress approved a Continuing Resolution this week that will provide ninety days worth of funding for the government,…
The City of Portland is set to conduct a revaluation of residential properties over the course of next year, the…
York County District Attorney Kathryn Slattery this week touted the sentencing of a Maine man convicted of manslaughter in connection…
An investigation into a string of over 20 package thefts from a Westbrook senior citizen living facility has led to…
Former President Donald Trump has a nearly 11-point lead over Vice President Kamala Harris, according to an eye-popping new analysis…
The Biden-Harris Administration signed on to a radical United Nations agenda calling for zero-carbon emissions and an end to fossil…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D), who during the COVID-19 pandemic implemented stringent prohibitions on public gatherings and stay-at-home directives, will…
The Hampden Police Department in Massachusetts busted a large-scale illegal marijuana growing operation on Tuesday. Hampden Police Department along with…
Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Gov. Tim Walz (D-Minn.) went viral on Saturday after claiming that Americans “can’t afford four more…
Lewiston was rocked by a series of violent incidents Tuesday evening, with police responding to two separate reports of gunfire…
While the mayor of South Portland recently recommended that elderly residents reverse mortgage their homes to handle a growing property…
A Lisbon man with multiple previous state convictions for possessing and distributing child pornography pleaded guilty this week to a…
In a win for religious freedom, a federal judge has ruled that the government cannot force Catholic employers to pay…
New York Archbishop Timothy Cardinal Dolan went viral with a statement calling out Vice President Kamala Harris for her plan…
The Mills Administration has taken the unusual step of channeling $117,300 in taxpayer dollars to the Maine Trust for Local…
The Maine Department of Labor (MDOL) announced Monday that it has negotiated the recovery of over $20,000 owed collectively to…
Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Tim Walz’s Department of Education and Department of Veterans Affairs held programs segregated by race and…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced his opposition to former Republican President Donald Trump shortly before flying to America and cozying…
U.S. Sens. Angus King (I-Maine) and Jerry Moran (R-Kans.) have introduced the Farmhouse-to-Workforce Housing Act, a piece of legislation aimed…
Maine Statistical Analysis Center (MSAC) released a report Monday on the use of body-worn cameras (BWCs) among police departments throughout…
Following the Portland City Council’s unanimous vote to divest public funds from companies that do business with Israel, the law…
The Portland Press Herald, one of Maine’s news websites, published a letter Sunday asking whether former President Donald Trump faked…
The Mills administration has paid $120,000 to the Maine Trust for Local News (MTLN), the nonprofit that owns the Portland…
Editor’s Note: We’re aware of the moral hazard inherent in publishing a positive review of a documentary produced by the…
Maine homes are 7.53 percent more expensive than they were in August of 2023 — now reaching a median sale…
A Brownfield man was arrested on multiple drug and firearm charges following a raid conducted by the Maine Drug Enforcement…
The U.S. House of Representatives unanimously advanced a bill Friday that would increase Secret Service protection for major presidential and…
U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) voted Friday against a bill that would have led to the automatic deportation of illegal…
The United States House of Representatives is set to vote this week on a stop-gap measure that would fund the…
Maine’s August unemployment rate and labor force participation rate remained largely unchanged in comparison to recent months, according to the…
A traffic stop in Lewiston shortly after midnight on Thursday led to the arrest of two men and the seizure…
The second gunman accused of attempting to assassinate former President Donald Trump has offered a $150,000 reward to anyone who…
Maine has now launched a $36 million Home Energy Rebate Program funded by federal tax dollars allocated by the Inflation…
Amid discussion regarding recent property tax hikes at a South Portland City Council meeting last month, Mayor Misha Pride suggested…
Voters in RSU 16 approved a $28 million school budget by just 153 votes after rejecting two previous iterations. This…
Six police departments across Maine have been awarded a total of just over $2 million in federal grants to support…
Mainers appear largely divided over the five ballot questions set to go before voters this November, according to a new…
A new poll from Pan Atlantic Research — a Portland-based independent marketing research and consulting firm — revealed this month…
It happened again. For the second time in two months a would-be assassin took aim from an unprotected perimeter ready…
Free speech isn’t always so free on college campuses, according to a recent ranking done by College Pulse and the…
Daily Wire podcaster and best-selling children’s book author Matt Walsh has returned to theaters with a new film, Am I…
A new poll by Pan Atlantic Research shows the race for Maine’s Second Congressional District is leaning in favor of…
Sanford city officials and members of the city council were in agreement during their Tuesday meeting on the need to…
During a town hall event Monday evening in Portland, Somali-American Maine State Rep. Deqa Dhalac (D-South Portland) claimed that immigrants’…
Asian restaurant owners in Maine have become targets for sophisticated and often lucrative burglaries at the hands of well-organized, highly…
The federal Department of Transportation (DOT) announced Tuesday that Maine has been awarded nearly $1.5 million in grant funding to…
A motor vehicle crash on Main Street in Westbrook on Tuesday that left one car flipped on its side led…
A Portland man who in 2020 sold fentanyl-laced fake pills that killed a York County woman has been sentenced to…
The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Maine CDC) announced on Tuesday that a Maine resident has tested positive…
Maine’s Congressional delegation sent a joint letter to Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro urging cooperation on the cleanup effort at…
At a Portland town hall event Monday evening hosted by a collection of progressive nonprofit organizations, a lawyer from the…
The Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry (DCAF) announced Monday that applications have now opened for a combined $3…
Bangor Animal Control is continuing to investigate the mysterious disappearance of cats in Bangor’s Fairmount neighborhood, with officials saying multiple…
On Tuesday the Sanford City Council is expected to discuss a “public health crisis” caused by a large number of…
The City of Portland is now seeking applications to fill the vacancy at the top of the city’s Justice, Diversity,…
Missouri Republican U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley released a report Monday detailing the failures of the U.S. Secret Service (USSS) that…
Following the University of Maine System’s (UMS) decision to renege on a deal to sell the Hutchinson Center in Belfast…
All members of Maine’s Congressional delegation have now spoken out in response to the second attempted assassination of former President…
Just ahead of the anniversary of the tragic mass shootings in Lewiston on Oct. 25, 2023, U.S. Senator from Maine…
Gov. Janet Mills (D) announced Monday that the State has selected twelve new Land for Maine’s Future (LMF) conservation projects,…
A Salvadoran national living illegally in the U.S. was arrested last week on Nantucket Island by federal immigration officers after…
An alleged ABC News employee has stated that the news outlet struck an agreement with Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential…
Maine’s top newspapers offered short shrift Monday morning to the second apparent assassination attempt on former Republican President Donald Trump,…
The suspected gunman, arrested Sunday in Florida after his assassination attempt on former Republican President Donald Trump was foiled by…
Former President Donald Trump is safe after what the FBI is calling an apparent second assassination attempt unfolded on Sunday…
After we published a story regarding the University of Maine’s decision renege on a deal to sell the Hutchinson Center…
The Bangor refugee resettlement office run by Catholic Charities Maine is planning to move 150 migrants into cities and towns…
The New York man charged in April with criminal threatening and aggravated sex trafficking for running his “massage parlor” as…
Former President Donald Trump (R) has ruled out a second debate against Vice President Kamala Harris (D). Two days after…
The University of Maine can couch their decision to rescind the sale of the Hutchinson Center to Calvary Chapel Belfast…
South Portland residents passionately spoke at last week’s City Council meeting about the recent property tax hikes that blindsided many…
On Monday and Tuesday, Gov. Janet Mills (D) attended the 45th Annual Conference of New England Governors and Eastern Canadian…
As legions of you noted in emails to me, Thursday morning’s Maine Wire newsletter malfunctioned. As the political aphorism goes,…
The University of Maine (UMaine) has officially rescinded its offer to sell the Hutchinson Center to Calvary Chapel Belfast. Earlier…
A joint operation by the Portland Police Department and Maine Drug Enforcement Agency (MDEA) led to the arrest of a…
A Bangor-based homelessness fundraising organization is propagating educational materials aimed at helping homeless individuals avoid arrest for a variety of…
A combined $8 million worth of grant funding has now been made available “to help communities become resilient to the…
On Tuesday the Portland City Council’s Health and Human Services and Public Safety Committee voted to advance a proposal from…
The Maine Department of Labor (MDOL) announced Wednesday that, in compliance with state law, Maine’s minimum wage will be increased…
The owner of multiple massage parlors throughout Maine has been arrested in connection to a police investigation into alleged sex…
Federal authorities in Boston have seized more than 350 internet domains that investigators believe were used for the illegal importation…
During a Tuesday meeting of the Portland City Council’s Health and Human Services and Public Safety Committee, City Councilor Kate…
The federal Department of Justice (DOJ) has sued the State of Maine for allegedly violating the Americans with Disabilities Act…
An Edgartown man has pleaded guilty to charges related to an armed bank robbery on Martha’s Vineyard, federal prosecutors said…
Four individuals from Massachusetts and New York face charges in connection with a health care fraud scheme that allegedly involved…
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump accused Vice President Kamala Harris of copying his philosophy because she had no policy proposals…
A University of Maine employee who worked at the school for nearly four decades with a “completely unblemished” record was…
President Joe Biden touted offshore wind’s “progress” on his watch on Thursday despite the fact that the industry has struggled…
Violent Venezuelan gang members have infiltrated the U.S. and were authorized by gang leaders to fire upon American law enforcement,…
Three on One is ABC Fun: The second presidential debate of 2023 took place, this time featuring Vice President Kamala…
Maine Governor Janet Mills’ (D) Office of Policy Innovation and the Future (GOPIF) has granted $15,000 to a Portland-based consultant…
The Maine State Housing Authority announced Monday that a combined $2 million from the state’s Emergency Housing Relief Fund (EHRF)…