MaineHousing is launching a pilot program that will help older homeowners list their spare rooms for rent online, an effort…
New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) has come under scrutiny for his pilot program to give pre-paid debit cards…
Nearly 1,500 illegally grown cannabis plants were seized Thursday after the the Somerset County Sheriff’s Department executed a search warrant…
Update: Several hours after the Maine Wire broke this story, the Penobscot Sheriff’s Department posted new information on their Facebook…
Maine’s Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety (CJPS) held a public hearing on a bill intended to crackdown on…
The White House announced Wednesday that President Joe Biden has canceled yet another round of student debt, nearly six months…
Maine’s Committee on Energy Utilities and Technology (EUT) held a public hearing on Tuesday on a bill which could strike…
The leadership Political Action Committee (PAC) led by Maine House Speaker Rachel Talbot Ross (D-Portland) ended 2023 in a deficit…
A federal jury in Washington, D.C. convicted two Chinese nationals Tuesday for participating in a multimillion-dollar scheme to defraud Apple…
Auburn Police announced Tuesday that a man has been arrested on drug trafficking charges after a search warrant executed at…
The U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) voted unanimously last week to allow election officials to allocate federal funds toward countering…
The Oxford County Republican Committee announced Tuesday that they plan to host a debate for the 2024 Maine Second Congressional…
Several recently acquired electric school buses have been pulled off the road as a result of potentially dangerous malfunctions and…
A Portland man was sentenced Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Portland to 16 years in prison for drug trafficking…
The State of Maine reportedly imposes upon its residents one of the heftiest vehicle tax burdens in the nation. According…
Gov. Janet Mills (D-Maine) announced Tuesday that she had designated the historic, and undeveloped Sears Island for a 100-acre development…
A Maine school district has agreed to change how it promotes “affinity groups” for students of color after receiving pushback…
The United States used its veto power to kill a measure in the United Nations Security Council intending to demand…
Russia has officially added Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) to its list of terrorists and extremists. The decision, by Russian…
Portland Police announced Tuesday that a man has been arrested in connection to a January assault and home invasion on…
The Biden supporting Neo-Nazi, former Marine Christopher Pohlhaus, led his Blood Tribe group in a lackluster protest in Nashville before…
A Portland man has been arrested in connection to a Monday stabbing on Portland Street. Portland Police responded to 5…
On March 5, voters in the Town of Cumberland are set to weigh in on a controversial proposal to construct…
As divisive WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange faces a hearing in the United Kingdom court, which could determine whether he will…
Over a year after a disastrous train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, which led to devastating amounts of poisonous Vinyl…
A former U.S. soldier stationed at Fort Hood, Texas, 23-year-old Christopher Meza was sentenced on Friday for sexually exploiting a…
Lewiston Police are investigating a shooting that occurred early Sunday morning at a Pine St. apartment building. Police say they…
A Mexican national who was previously removed from the United States twice was sentenced Friday to 27 months in prison…
The Kremlin announced Monday that Russian forces had taken full control of the Ukrainian city Avdiivka, in a significant defeat…
Billionaire activist investor George Soros proved this week that he doesn’t care strictly about money, as it was revealed his…
Body cam footage has been released showing police conducting a welfare check on Lewiston shooter Robert Card, three months before…
Former President Donald Trump (R) has declined to petition the Supreme Court for review of a December appeals court decision…
Maine Congressman Rep. Jared Golden (D-Maine) took to X on Friday to draw support for a compromise bill meant to…
A two-vehicle accident in Eustis early Saturday left two seriously injured and resulted in three undocumented Ecuadorian nationals being taken…
A Democratic Kansas State Representative criticized a bill currently being considered by the Kansas State Legislature that would ban the…
The Portland Museum of Art announced Thursday that it will be laying off thirteen employees, citing the continued impacts of…
In a recent Pennsylvania special election, the race was called with less than half of the votes counted after it…
Alexie Navalny, a Russian politician who has consistently opposed Russian President Vladimir Putin, was found dead in a Russian prison.…
The following is an op-ed from Representative Reagan Paul: If you had a dollar for every time it was said…
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a lawsuit against the State of Tennessee and the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation…
Launched in 2022, online discount shopping website Temu — owned by the China-based company PDD Holdings — has come under…
Maine Wire Reporter Seamus Othot contributed to this report. A Maine Republican is looking to crackdown on the foreign organized…
A 6-year-old missing child from Iowa has been found safe on Peaks Island off the coast of Portland. Avery Doherty,…
U.S. Attorney for the District of Maine Darcie McElwee announced Wednesday that her office collected a total of $24.4 million…
Maine’s Office of the Secretary of State (SoS) has not yet released its list of ballot drop-box locations, over a…
Three Maine airports have received a combined $18,024,800 in federal funding from the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Fiscal Year 2024…
For the first time in twenty years, the death of a North Atlantic Right Whale has been linked to Maine…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills has proposed creating an “Office of New Americans” to bring 75,000 low-skill workers to Maine, but…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) announced a $71 million new spending proposal on Wednesday that would bring Maine’s total spending…
Far left activists have successfully blocked a proposed mining project in remote Township 6, Range 6 (T6R6) that would have…
U.S. Border Patrol (USBP) Chief Jason Owens has appointed Juan Bernal as the new Chief Patrol Agent (CPA) of Maine’s…
Three people were arrested Wednesday after a search of a Pittsfield home by Maine State Police led to the discovery…
A high school in Maine has opted to ditch a plan to using biometric fingerprint scanners to help staff keep…
Maine’s Second Congressional District is big — 27,326 square miles, encompassing what passes in Maine for cities, Lewiston-Auburn and Bangor,…
A New York man was arrested Wednesday morning in Norridgewock following a raid on a Betterment Road property that uncovered…
The Maine State Legislature’s Judiciary Committee has voted nine-to-zero against a bill that would have amended the Maine Human Rights…
Maine Senator Angus King (I) is calling for the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) to protect humorous and witty highway…
The Portland Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has released a 2023 year-in-review report on the city’s response to…
On Tuesday, Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives successfully impeached Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas for his mishandling…
An Androscoggin Sheriff’s Deputy was shot early Wednesday morning while responding to a call about an unspecified disturbance at a…
Maine lawmakers are considering a bill that would institute a statewide consumer products rule — dubbed the “right to repair”…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills signed into law Tuesday a bill that grants the Independent Commission investigating the Oct. 25, 2023…
A taxpayer-funded commission originally proposed and currently co-chaired by Maine House Speaker Rachel Talbot Ross (D-Portland) is celebrating Black History…
Maine Republican lawmakers held a press conference Tuesday on the state’s homelessness crisis and spending related to providing taxpayer-funded housing…
President Joe Biden will not take a cognitive exam during his next visit to the doctor’s office despite growing doubts…
Multiple residents of Brookline, Mass., have volunteered for the state’s immigrant resettlement program, which begged residents to host illegal immigrant…
An Illinois Democrat is pushing for a bill that would amend the definition of child abuse to make it a…
Former Republican President Donald Trump has tapped North Carolina GOP Chair Michael Whatley to replace Ronna McDaniel as the Republican…
President Joe Biden met with the chairman of a Chinese government linked energy firm that later wired millions of dollars…
The individual who attempted a mass shooting at Joel Osteen’s Lakewood megachurch in Houston on Sunday has been identified as…
Let me ask you, what do you think China would do if President Xi discovered thousands of stealth drones, quiet…
President Joe Biden (D) has received criticism after his campaign officially joined TikTok — the Chinese-controlled social media app widely…
Elected officials in Maine are considering proposals that would allocate millions of dollars in response to destruction caused by the…
U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) sent a letter to every Republican member of congress on Monday, urging them to oppose…
Maine Sen. Eric Brakey (R-Androscoggin) has scored a victory in his fight against the implementation of legislation that would pave…
A homeless man was arrested on Riverside Street in Portland Sunday on charges of drug trafficking, refusing to submit to…
Portland’s Homeless Services Center (HSC) received a total of 178 intakes in January, including two dozen homeless individuals from out-of-state,…
On Sunday, U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III was once-again hospitalized on Sunday, this time for a non-specified…
A Saturday night shooting near the University of Maine at Augusta’s Bangor campus stemmed from a dispute between residents of…
A new report from a group of transgender ideology activists has published survey data that conflicts sharply with a recently…
President Joe Biden celebrated the Superbowl with a baffling post on one of his two official X accounts. [RELATED: Biden…
According to the most recent state data, there were nearly 10,000 drug overdoses in Maine during 2023, though the number…
The Maine Supreme Judicial Court heard oral arguments last week concerning the imposition of vaccine mandates on emergency medical technicians…
The Penobscot Sheriff’s Office is investigating a fire at an abandoned home in Eddington that was allegedly started by a…
A co-founder and former CEO of a sustainable fuel company pleaded guilty Thursday to wire fraud in connection to a…
Maine has been awarded a $4.4 million from the federal government to improve the “resilience” of the state’s electrical grid,…
Renowned conservative columnist Mark Steyn has been ordered by a Washington, D.C. jury to pay controversial global warming activist Michael…
The past few weeks have marked the receipt of several million dollars in federal funding being sent to Maine in…
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) K-9 unit at Boston’s Logan Airport thwarted an attempt to illegally import four…
Maine’s liberal Members of Congress are either keeping quiet, pointing at former President Donald Trump, or defending President Joe Biden…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) issued an Executive Order on Friday calling for hearings over allegations of misconduct against Oxford…
Multiple properties throughout northern Maine suspected of being part of the network of illegal Chinese marijuana growing operations were raided…
Tucker Carlson is neither Walter Duranty (the notorious New York Times correspondent in Moscow in the 1930s who helped Josef Stalin cover…
U.S. President Joe Biden held a surprise press conference Thursday night to respond to allegations contained in a Special Counsel…
Journalist Tucker Carlson, of Maine, published his controversial Feb. 6 interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin Thursday evening. The interview…
Maine law enforcement busted a massive illegal marijuana growing operation Thursday morning at 9 Riverside Drive in Norridgewock. Although no…
The United States Supreme Court on Thursday heard oral arguments in the case of Trump v. Anderson out of Colorado…
Five Chinese nationals were arrested this week in California after border agents discovered thousands of gift cards, merchandise, and 23…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy replaced the Commander-In-Chief of all Ukrainian armed forces on Thursday following disputes. “The year 2024 can…
U.S. Senator from Maine Susan Collins was one of four Republican Senators to join Democrats in voting in favor of…