CBS News Investigations ran a segment Tuesday highlighting the proliferation of Asian transnational criminal organizations throughout rural Maine, including an…
The 87-year-old self-described “frontman” for an elaborate Chinese-run drug trafficking organization active in rural Maine told the Maine Wire that…
The Democrat-controlled Maine State Legislature elected on Patriot’s Day — the holiday that commemorates some of the first battles in…
U.S. Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) called out President Joe Biden’s (D) Fiscal Year 2025 budget for not doing “nearly enough…
The U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) decided Monday that it would not hear an appeal from Black Lives Matter (BLM) activist…
The extreme left-wing bias of NPR’s new CEO has added to the controversy surrounding the taxpayer-funded outlet, which began when…
Four Illegal Immigrants have been arrested and face federal charges for their involvement with a group which has stolen from…
Lawmakers in Augusta voted nearly-unanimously this past Friday to advance a bill guaranteeing Mainers the right to repair their electronic…
A Skowhegan courtroom devolved into an all-out brawl during the sentencing of Jason Servil for the 2022 murder of Alice…
Numerous Democrat representatives walked out of the House on Thursday when Rep. Heidi Sampson (R-Alfred) delivered a speech meant to…
Gov. Janet Mills (D) signed into law a bill last week repealing limitations on municipal property tax collection that have…
Smith and Wesson has threatened to shutter its 44,000-square-foot Houlton facility if a Democratic gun control bill under consideration in…
Maine’s House unanimously passed a bill forbidding state and local government from contracting with businesses affiliated with hostile foreign governments,…
Lawmakers in Augusta have approved legislation changing how medical debt is handled in the State of Maine. LD 2115 —…
A month-long joint investigation between the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency (MDEA) and the Portland Police has led to the arrest…
The Legislature voted Wednesday to sustain Gov. Janet Mills’ (D) veto of a bill preventing repeat offenders from being charged…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) announced on Friday that she has appointed retired Air Force Colonel Alice Briones as Maine’s…
Democratic Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (ME-01) on Thursday released a statement praising the Biden administration’s move to expand background checks on…
Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey on Friday announced that he was filed a lawsuit against Monsanto alleging that the agricultural…
A Republican bill passed the Maine House of Representatives late Thursday evening that will result in tax increases on high-earners…
The Maine House of Representatives voted late Wednesday evening to advance a bill that would institute legal protections for those…
Gov. Janet Mills (D) and House Speaker Rachel Talbot Ross (D-Portland) issued a joint statement on Thursday requesting that the…
A traffic stop on Route 9 in Eddington last week led to the seizure 60 grams of fentanyl, the Penobscot…
Republican candidate in the 2024 primary race in Maine’s 2nd Congressional District Rep. Austin Theriault (R-Fort Kent) has accused his…
Residents of New England are paying some of the highest taxes in the United States, according to a comprehensive study…
Iowa’s Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds signed a bill into law Wednesday allowing Iowa law enforcement to arrest individuals present in…
A former undergraduate student at Cornell University faces up to five years in prison after pleading guilty to making a…
A former educator in Maine School Administrative District 75 (MSAD 75), who resigned following the district’s adoption of a “transgender…
A South Portland man has been found guilty of possessing a firearm after being convicted of a domestic violence misdemeanor…
Given the Maine Wire’s role as the fastest growing media outlet in Maine and the preeminent investigative reporting team focused…
The City of Portland’s Social Services Division, in charge of administering the city’s General Assistance program, has nearly tripled its…
Lawmakers in Augusta have scrapped a bill that would have legalized the possession of illicit drugs, including opioids, swapping it…
The Falmouth High School Civil Rights Team on Tuesday gave a presentation on the Falmouth Public Schools’ recently adopted “Transgender…
A Salvadoran national who is a documented member of the notorious MS-13 transnational criminal street gang, and who was previously…
Maine’s House of Representatives voted Tuesday to require that farmworkers be paid the state minimum wage despite concerns that artificially…
Early Saturday morning, when most Mainers were asleep or recovering from a blizzard which knocked out power across the state,…
A Caribou man has been sentenced to more than 13 years in prison for his role in a large drug…
The Oxford County Sheriff’s Department responded Monday night to reports of a stabbing in Buckfield. Deputies, along with officers of…
A proposed amendment enshrining abortion in Maine’s state constitution failed Wednesday to gain enough support for final passage in the…
The Biden Administration announced Monday that it is pushing forward with a plan to cancel an additional tranche of student…
In just under three years, the U.S. Department of Justice task force in charge of investigating and prosecuting instances of…
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Wednesday that the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), the key…
Transnational criminal organizations scored a major victory Tuesday in their ongoing effort to exploit rural Maine through the illicit cultivation…
Gov. Janet Mills (D) signed into law this past Wednesday a bill that implements new regulations on the fees that…
The foreign-born population in the United States grew by 15.6 percent from 2010 to 2022, according to a new report…
Maine’s taxpayer-funded racial equity commission has revised their public comment policy to disallow input from the public during meetings of…
New Hampshire’s Republican-led Senate on Friday passed two bills that aim to protect young female athletes and provide parents with…
The City of Portland has announced that it is looking to hire a new director for their Department of Planning…
Lawmakers in Augusta have approved a bill providing property tax relief to a broader group of Maine veterans and their…
The Maine State Police were welcomed inside an illegal drug trafficking operation in Belgrade, confirmed that the owner had no…
Amid the snow-covered debate on Friday over a bill that would allow the state to seize firearms from Maine residents…
Former Republican President Donald Trump announced his stance Monday on abortion and fertility treatments in advance of the 2024 presidential…
A man was arrested Sunday in connection with a fire at the Burlington office of Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders (I)…
Three individuals are facing drug trafficking charges after Auburn Police conducted a major drug bust at a South Main Street…
The Maine Home Education Alliance (MHEA) hosted its first annual Leader Summit on Saturday, drawing homeschool leaders from across the…
The Vatican on Monday released a document condemning transgender surgeries, gender theory and surrogacy as “grave violations” of human dignity,…
In an uncommon display of evenhandedness in their coverage, several corporate media outlets have reported on the disinformation tactics used…
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pennsylvania) once again broke with the establishment Democratic Party and spoke out against squatters rights and soft-on-crime…
Maine’s recently defeated electric vehicle (EV) mandate tried to put the electric car before the battery. The citizen’s petition delivered…
On Tuesday, the Maine Legislature sustained Gov. Janet Mills’ veto of a bill that would have placed restrictions on the…
“Set ups” are not right. In Maine and the Nation, law abiding gun-owners – Republicans, Independents, and Democrats – are…
Gov. Janet Mills (D) issued a statement Saturday, mourning the passing of former Gov. Joseph Brennan, a Democrat who governed…
It’s painful to watch a once-great newspaper commit professional suicide in slow motion. Sadly, the Bangor Daily News has transformed…
Despite hundreds of thousands of Mainers still being without power Friday following a nor’easter, Democratic lawmakers plowed ahead with a…
When Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman released their new book, “White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy,” the publication…
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday that total nonfarm payroll employment in March rose by 303,000, with the…
Rep. Lynn Williams (D-Bar Harbor) has quietly resigned from her position in the House of Representatives, shrinking the Democrat’s majority…
A Bangor Police officer was justified in shooting at a woman who was brandishing a pair of knives at two…
A position on the state’s Right to Know Advisory Committee meant to represent advocates for Mainers’ freedom of access to…
Democratic lawmakers in Augusta are plowing forward Friday with an attempt to impose a so-called “Red Flag” gun control bill,…
A new study out of the Netherlands, which surveyed children over a 15-year period, showed that the vast majority of…
Maine’s House passed a controversial bill targeting “unauthorized paramilitary training” which has raised concerns with Second Amendment rights advocates, who…
Maine’s Judiciary Committee is pushing forward with its plan to hold a public hearing on a controversial gun-control bill as…
No Labels announced Thursday that it will not be advancing a ticket in the 2024 presidential election. This comes just…
Earlier this week, lawmakers defeated a bill that would have allowed municipalities to impose a one percent sales tax on…
In the coming months, the state government will be studying ways to increase the use of renewable energy in and…
An “Economic Policy Analyst” at the left-wing dark money-funded think tank the Maine Center for Economic Policy (MECEP) is arguing…
A bill separating the Office of Child and Family Services (OCFS) from the Maine Department of Health and Human Services…
A Colombian national who was paroled into the U.S. after illegally crossing the border at Eagle Pass, Texas, has been…
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has approved more than $7 million in taxpayer funding for renewable energy and…
Lewiston Police on Tuesday announced the arrest of two out-of-state fugitives from Massachusetts, one of whom is wanted for a…
President Joe Biden issued a statement condemning Israel following the deaths of seven humanitarian aid workers in Gaza as a…
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Boston have arrested a Dominican national previously charged with homicide, strangulation, and…
Hermon’s school superintendent Micah Grant unexpectedly announced his resignation on Monday after years of controversy. Grant, who has attributed his…
Former Maine Gov. Paul LePage announced on Tuesday that the fundraiser he hosted along with his wife Ann raised nearly…
Former Republican President Donald Trump announced on Monday that he posted the $175 million bond set in the New York…
The vast majority of illegal immigrants flown directly into the U.S. by the Biden Administration since 2022 have been sent…
Recently, people from Joe Rogan to U.N. diplomats have argued that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, with Rogan going so far as to…
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on Tuesday announced a series of large drug and illicit currency seizures near El…
A Maine man pleaded guilty in a Massachusetts federal court Monday to a conspiracy to straw purchase firearms in Maine…
Lawmakers in Augusta have voted to repeal limitations on municipal property tax collection that have been in place for nearly…
The Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a train versus car collision on the Hammett Road in Enfield. On Monday,…
Mainers are some of the most heavily taxed citizens in the United States. According to a recent study conducted by…
Democratic Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek on Monday signed into a law a bill that recriminalizes the possession of small amounts…
Juan Bernal, Chief Patrol Agent of the U.S. Border Patrol’s Houlton Sector, is warning tourists who plan to come to…
Following a 10-month vacancy in the role, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced Tuesday the appointment of a new…
After a nearly two-week delay, the Maine House of Representatives on Tuesday once again took up consideration of a proposed…
The Osseo Area School District in Minnesota decided that parents could opt their children out of the upcoming “LGBTQIA+ History…
The Independent Commission tasked by Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) with investigating the facts and circumstances surrounding the Oct. 25,…
The Democratic effort to amend Maine’s Constitution to protect the abortion industry is on life-support after failing to get a…