Allagash Brewing Company has become the leading “Visionary Sponsor” for a Portland-based non-profit that is among Maine’s leading advocates for…
Maine state legislators are continuing efforts to improve sexual assault kit testing in the state, as kits continue to go…
Portland Police are investigating a shootout between the occupants of two cars that occurred Tuesday evening in the city’s Sagamore…
The South Portland City Council approved an order Tuesday that freed up $150,000 in state funds that will be used…
Maine’s child welfare system has frequently come under fire in recent months for its failure to protect the state’s most…
President Joe Biden has faced heavy criticism this week after he recounted a 2021 conversation he had with French President…
Former Speaker of the House Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-California) has made staggering profits off of some suspect tech trading, according…
A bipartisan group of 50 members of Congress sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland last week demanding…
For the second time in less than three months, the Lewiston Police Department executed a search warrant at 149 College…
A trans-identifying biological male is expected to dominate at the New Hampshire Division II championship track meet this Sunday, where…
U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan, (R-Ohio) took to X on Monday to reveal that the White House pressured Amazon to censor…
A bill aimed at establishing an state advisory board to facilitate renaming place names in Maine had a public hearing…
Maine, a state that has some of the highest taxes and electricity costs in the country, can also now count…
Any among us that hoped the Senate negotiated border bill would somehow be better than the leaks had advertised were sadly disappointed…
The Maine Legislature’s Veterans and Legal Affairs (VLA) Committee held a work session this afternoon to discuss the possibility of…
The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office has arrested two more individuals in relation to a series of raids it carried out…
Editor’s Note: Following the publication of this story, a public affairs professional from Maine Health contacted the Maine Wire asking…
The Portland City Council unanimously approved an order Monday accepting a $364,000 grant from the Maine State Housing Authority (MaineHousing)…
Maine Sen. Angus King (I) joined a group of Democratic U.S. Senators on a letter calling on the Biden administration…
On Jan. 25, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Lynn, Mass. arrested an illegal alien with Mexican and…
New York resident Tyler Dean, 49, was sentenced on Monday for his role in the overdose deaths of a Rockland…
Russian media has confirmed that Tucker Carlson, a resident of Oxford County, was photographed over the weekend in Russia, has…
Maine’s congressional delegation renewed their call for federal action to be taken against a sprawling network of illegal Chinese-owned marijuana…
The First Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling last Friday declaring that Maine’s laws governing the use and dissemination…
The City of Portland Director of Permitting and Inspections (PID) Jessica Hanscombe sent a Jan. 25 letter to City Manager…
Note: This story was updated to include a statement from State Rep. Austin Theriault. Democratic Congressman Jared Golden (ME-02) released…
Last week, six pro-life activists were convicted following a peaceful protest outside a Tennessee abortion clinic, and now face up…
The details of a border security bill tied to a foreign aid package for Ukraine and Israel were released by…
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Florida) announced last Thursday that Florida is willing to send a battalion, up to 1,000 soldiers, of…
Maine lawmakers are considering a bill to prohibit “unauthorized paramilitary training,” leading to concerns about 2nd Amendment rights, and difficulties…
President Joe Biden traveled to Michigan on Thursday to give a speech at the United Auto Workers (UAW) Union building…
Maine Attorney General (AG) Aaron Frey announced Friday that a coalition of AGs had reached a settlement with multinational marketing…
Nearly six months after the Maine Board of Environmental Protection (BEP) held its first public hearing on the proposed California-style…
Three individuals who were previously arrested and charged in November 2023 in connection to a high-end brothel network operating out…
President Joe Biden, who four years ago attack former President Donald Trump for sabre-rattling with the Islamic Republic of Iran,…
Eleven people were arrested Friday afternoon after a group of pro-Palestine protestors blocked both ramps at Exit 7 of I-295…
The University of Maine Office of Diversity and Inclusion (ODI) held a ceremony Thursday commemorating the start of Black History…
Lawmakers in Augusta are set to consider a bill that would provide additional funding to reimburse municipalities for the short-lived…
South Portland Police announced Friday morning that man has been arrested in connection to the robbery of Key Bank last…
A public high school in Maine is among the first in the state to adopt biometric scanning technology to track…
Former Maine State Rep. Sue Bernard (R-Caribou) will make another run for State Senate, according to a statement she released…
On Tuesday, reports emerged that Gov. Maura Healey turned a community center in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston into a makeshift residence…
A report by The Washington Post details how China is happy to host American mayors despite the continued decline in…
The U.S. House of Representatives held a vote on Wednesday for a bill meant to bar terrorists who participated in…
The majority of U.S. House Democrats opposed a bill that would prevent foreign nationals who have committed Social Security or…
The Portland City Council is set to consider an order Monday that would extend the 50-bed expansion of the city’s…
Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek (D) declared a 90-day state of emergency Tuesday in response to a “public health and public…
Democratic Congressman Jared Golden (ME-02) received donations to his 2024 campaign committee from several family members of billionaire left-wing megadonor…
A Portland homeless man is facing multiple charges for allegedly assaulting people with a machete, possessing scheduled drugs and trafficking…
From Oklahoma to Maine, a little known program operated by the U.S. Department of Treasury has been leveraged by foreign…
Maine law enforcement agencies have seized more than 18,000 pounds of illegally grown marijuana from properties across rural Maine owned…
Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey has joined twenty-three other governors in submitting an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court…
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for Washington, D.C. announced Wednesday that four Chinese nationals have been charged for an alleged years-long…
Policies governing speech on Maine’s campuses need improvement to protect students’ freedom of speech, according to a new report from…
The Maine Office of Cannabis Policy is investigating a property in Turner after firefighters responding to a call at the…
A Lewiston man, Mark Burns, 61, was sentenced on Tuesday after he pled guilty to charges of possession of sexually…
FBI Director Christopher Wray, appeared before the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on Wednesday to testify…
Independent U.S. Senator from Maine Angus King announced Wednesday that he is cosponsoring legislation that would remove the green card…
The number of Chinese foreign nationals encountered attempting to illegally enter the United States reached an all-time high in December,…
Note: This story was updated to include data from Republican CD-2 candidate Mike Soboleski’s year-end FEC filing. State Rep. Austin…
Maine authorities have intensified their crackdown on illegal marijuana operations, conducting multiple raids across central Maine in January, including raids…
The House of Representatives is poised to impeach Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas due to the ongoing invasion across…
President Joe Biden approved Maine’s request for a federal disaster declaration on Tuesday, a move that follows the severe storms…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills delivered her 2024 State of the State address Tuesday evening, offering few policy proposals that resonated…
Former Internal Revenue Service (IRS) contractor Charles Littlejohn was sentenced to five years in prison on Monday for leaking the-President…
On Monday, California State Sen. Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley) introduced a bill she says will “protect children from the dangers associated…
Democratic Congressman Jared Golden (ME-02) issued a statement Monday calling upon Congress to pass the border security deal negotiated between…
Republican Maine Sen. Susan Collins announced Monday that 15 Maine organizations and state agencies aimed at combatting homelessness have been…
On Monday, John Raymond, 36, was sentenced to 4 years in prison for his role in an attempted robbery of…
The Maine State Legislature’s Committee on Veterans and Legal Affairs (VLA) is split on a resolution calling for a national…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills’ proposed migrant resettlement plan received a public hearing Tuesday afternoon before the Legislature’s State and Local…
A federal jury in Oklahoma City has convicted two Chinese nationals, Jeff Weng and Tong Lin, of a major drug…
The Maine State Legislature’s Judiciary Committee held a public hearing Monday on an emergency bill that would grant subpoena power…
The Maine State Police caused an uproar on social media on Monday after video and images emerged showing law enforcement…
Gov. Janet Mills (D) is set to deliver her annual State of the State address Tuesday evening. The speech, her…
A group of Maine lobstermen have asked the United States District Court for the District of Maine to temporarily block…
The small town of Houlton is about to become one of the most surveilled communities on the U.S. border thanks…
U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-ME) is supporting the effort to approve a $7 billion extension of the federal Affordable Connectivity…
Maine’s Republican State Senators and Representatives issued a joint statement Monday in support of the State of Texas’ constitutional right…
Senate President Troy Jackson (D-Aroostook) has told Democratic activists that he will support gun control legislation he has previously voted…
At the Androscoggin County Republicans’ 2024 caucus over the weekend, State Rep. Mike Soboleski (R-Phillips) won the caucus’ CD2 primary…
According to an 80-page report published by the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) Inspector General, the White House’s private pharmacy…
A new study from Definitive Healthcare shows that from 2018-2022 the number of people suffering from gender dysphoria in Maine…
A Connecticut woman was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Bangor Friday to a year-and-a-half in prison for trafficking cocaine…
Three U.S. Army soldiers were killed and more than thirty service members were injured in a drone attack on a…
The Boston Globe, a newspaper that belongs to yacht-lover and Red Sox owner John Henry, helped a woman kill herself…
On January 17, the Judiciary Committee held a work session for LD1696. This bill proposes holding “firearm industry members” civilly…
On Tuesday Rep. John Andrews (R-Paris) testified in front of the Committee on State and Local Government regarding LD 2150,…
The Northern Border Regional Commission (NBRC) announced Friday that Maine Gov. Janet Mills has been elected by her fellow governors…
The Lewiston Police Department announced Friday that a man has been arrested in Lewiston in connection to an ongoing sexual…
The College Board has weighed in on two data privacy bills currently under consideration by the Maine Judiciary Committee, urging…
Many Congressional Republicans are speaking out against a child tax credit bill that was recently passed by the House Ways…
The United States Supreme Court vacated an injunction Monday that blocked federal border patrol officials from cutting or removing the…
The City of Portland’s Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Allocation Committee revealed on Thursday that they have made a preliminary…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills announced Friday that she plans to present a “novel” two-part State of the State Address next…
Ohio’s Republican legislature successfully passed a bill on Wednesday which bans sex change surgeries, including mastectomies and genital mutilation, for…
Maine’s Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (DIFW) released a statement yesterday encouraging people to sign up for its “Traps+Trails…
Former FBI officials sent a letter to Congressional leaders earlier this month warning the surge in “military aged men from…
Former President Donald Trump’s trade adviser Peter Navarro was sentenced on Thursday to four months in prison for contempt of…
A proposal to prohibit natural gas companies from installing new natural gas infrastructure for Maine homes has resurfaced in the…