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Gov. Janet Mills on Tuesday announced the hiring of two well-connected Maine Democratic Party operatives to her gubernatorial staff. In…
A report published last week by the Maine Child Welfare Ombudsman, an independent government watchdog, revealed widespread failures at the…
The Daily Caller News Foundation – Micaela Burrow on January 10, 2023 The Department of Defense (DOD) is now prioritizing space…
The Daily Caller News Foundation – Reagan Reese on January 9, 2023 Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares is opening an investigation…
While overwhelming numbers of homeless Americans in every major city across our nation live on the street, in their cars,…
Maine Wire Editor-in-Chief Steve Robinson joined WVOM’s George Hale and Ric Tyler Monday morning to tell listeners about his exclusive…
A bill proposed in the Maine State Legislature would grant in-state tuition to any student registered to vote in the…
The advent of the New Year brings good news and bad news from the Statehouse swamp. Frankly, most of the…
The Daily Caller News Foundation – Kate Anderson on January 8, 2023 Conservative organizations told the Daily Caller News Foundation that…
As the state committee of the Maine Republican Party prepares to elect a chairperson at the end of this month,…
Maine’s political reporters rung in the New Year — and the official start of Democratic Gov. Janet Mills’ second term…
A Maine child was born into a household with parents who neglected him, restrained him for long periods of time,…
The foreign firm supplying solar power modules for a Maine Department of Transportation (MDOT) project in Augusta has been linked…
The school system in Maine’s largest city has is facing a civil rights complaint alleging the school has been discriminating…
A Maine man who murdered both of his parents in cold blood has been relocated to the women’s prison in…
State lawmakers returned to the State House Wednesday for the first session of 2023 to put the final rubberstamp on…
[UPDATE: The Maine Wire has learned that all Maine lawmakers obtain stationary and business cards from the same New Jersey…
Voters in Paris will decide Tuesday whether to recall two members of the Oxford Hills School Board in a vote…
Maine CDC Director Nirav Shah on Monday tweeted out a list of recommended books and podcasts he planned to enjoy…
From Maine to Washington, D.C., Republican Party officials, operatives, and activists are fighting a mild civil war to determine who…
A Maine State Senator has introduced a bill that would require an official declaration of war by the U.S. Congress…
The mother of a Hermon school system student is calling on school officials to adopt policies that will regulate whether…
The Daily Caller News Foundation – Harold Hutchison on January 1, 2023 The hosts on liberal media networks had lots of…
A new poll out from Rasmussen Reports Monday shows Americans are very skeptical of the COVID-19 vaccines. Almost half of…
Trevor Bickford, 19, of Wells, is the man accused of wielding a machete in a New Years Eve terror attack…
Scientists working in the federal government warned officials from the Biden administration that a major Atlantic coast off-shore wind project…
When Maine began allowing eligible residents to carry concealed firearms without a government license in 2015, gun control advocates warned…
Anthony Fauci, the outgoing director for N.I.H.’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, became the face of the U.S.…
The Daily Caller News Foundation – Laurel Duggan on December 28, 2022 Three high-profile Democratic governors are struggling to stabilize their…
The Daily Caller News Foundation – Reagan Reese on December 28, 2022 Though schools are open and are no longer relying…
The Daily Caller News Foundation – Jack McEvoy on December 27, 2022 Russian President Vladimir Putin declared Tuesday that his nation…
The clown show on the Kennebec returned to the State House for an encore appearance last week, and this time…
The Maine Legislature is set to pass Gov. Janet Mills’ massive $473 million spending bill after Senate Republicans forced the…
In the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, a ban on many popular home and commercial appliances and plumbing fixtures takes effect Sunday,…
The latest disclosure Elon Musk has enabled since purchasing Twitter this year shows how the federal government directed Twitter and…
The Maine Department of Corrections now considers a Maine man who brutally murdered his parents in 2016 a female inmate.…
Early next month, the 168 members of the Republican National Committee will vote either to grant Ronna McDaniel another term…
Disgraced former Energy Department official Sam Brinton, who lost his job this month after a string of airport luggage thefts,…
A Massachusetts man who had eluded law enforcement for more than a month was arrested Monday in Waterville for alleged…
The mother of a Damariscotta 13-year-old who public school officials encouraged to undertake a gender transition is filing a complaint…
The school system in Maine’s largest city has been operating a rĂ©sumĂ© coaching program that is only available to people…
President Joe Biden met Wednesday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy as Congress prepares to pass a $1.7 trillion omnibus spending package…
The fate of more than $86,000 in campaign cash left unspent during the 2022 election provides a glimpse of Augusta’s…
Maine’s Congressional Delegation and Gov. Janet Mills gave themselves a hearty pat on the back Tuesday for convincing Members of…
President Joe Biden’s administration boasted this year that American job growth in the second quarter of 2022 had surged, evidence,…
A new research report on American welfare programs found that Mainers who take advantage of the full suite of state…
Overdose deaths from Fentanyl poisoning have created a lot of pain and suffering for Mainers, their families, and our entire…
Ric Tyler, host of WVOM Gorge Hale and Ric Tyler Show, questioned Maine’s legacy and corporate media outlets Tuesday morning…
The board of a Damariscotta school embroiled in controversy over an attempt by staffers to transition the gender of a…
ABC’s Martha Raddatz said Sunday that President Joe Biden is not responsible for the illegal immigration crisis at the southern…
Republican state lawmakers condemned the actions of school officials at Great Salt Bay Community School in Damariscotta after The Maine…
Officials at a public school in Damariscotta won’t respond to The Maine Wire’s questions about a 26-year-old conditionally licensed social…
A public school worker at Great Salt Bay Community School who coached a 13-year-old girl into a gender transition without…
Unlike the Scorpions, neither you nor I have to walk down to Gorky Park to listen to the winds of…
A Damariscotta mom demanded the resignation of several public school officials at a school board meeting Wednesday following her discovery…
The Bangor Police Department said Thursday assault charges have been filed against a Bangor High School student who assaulted another…
The public hearing for Democratic Gov. Janet Mills massive $447 million spending bill has been scheduled for next Wednesday. Mills…
Posters displayed in Maine public schools explaining the various terms used by gender ideology advocates also smear heterosexual couples using…
Maine Wire Editor-in-Chief Steve Robinson joined Newsmax host Eric Bolling Wednesday night to explain the ongoing federal crusade against the…
Former President Donald Trump teased a major announcement on Thursday, leading to speculation that he was about to name a…
UPDATE: Bangor Police Department Public Information Officer Sgt. Jason McAmbley said in an email that assault charges were filed against…
Maine and New Hampshire police played hot potato this weak with a woman experiencing homelessness in yet another sad episode…
Bowdoin College professor Jean Yarbrough, renowned scholar of American political thought, joined British author and podcaster Douglas Murray to discuss…
The town of Bucksport has pulled a Christmas nativity scene from public property after receiving a complaint from an atheist…
Hermon parent Regina Leonard told WVOM host Ric Tyler on Wednesday about her year-long struggle to get answers from the…
Prominent politicians who received heaps of money from Sam Bankman-Fried or his FTX associates are quietly trying to run the…
As America’s open border with Mexico continues to see unprecedented levels of illegal immigration, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…
Actor John Travolta, superstar scientology cultist and sometime summer resident of Maine, is struggling to sell is gorgeous Maine mansion,…
The New York Times invented a new word on Wednesday as part of a growing call from health officials in…
State Sens. Rick Bennett (R-Oxford) and Nicole Grohoski (D-Hancock) on Tuesday pitched a somewhat slimmer version of Democratic Gov. Janet…
Mainers from across the state braved icy temperatures and gathered outside Whole Foods in Portland on Monday afternoon to protest…
The Washington Post has mostly refrained from covering the revelations contained in the “Twitter Files,” but a story the Jeff…
University of Chicago instructor Rebecca Journey has accused a student at the school of inciting white nationalist terrorism against her…
Fox News host Tucker Carlson Monday night went to bat for the Maine lobster. He interviewed guest Rosie Moore, a…
ABC News reported last week that federal law enforcement is investigating a series of deliberate attacks on the nation’s power…
“Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” – George Santayana Rome at its height had…
Whether school bus drivers at several Maine public schools can celebrate the season by playing Rudolph the Rednosed Reindeer or…
The Mexico-U.S. border is seeing massive waves of illegal immigration. It’s happening right in front of reporters, and border crossers…
Independent journalist Bari Weiss on Monday released the fifth tranche of internal Twitter records provided to her by the company’s…
Maine Wire Editor-in-Chief Steve Robinson filled in on WGAN’s Morning News for an hour this morning. He covered the “Twitter…
Former Portland Board of Education director Emily Figdor offered an apology to members of the Portland school community over the…
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, who said in 2021 the current high levels of inflation in the American economy would…
The biennial clown show on the banks of the Kennebec opened last week at the Statehouse with scores of newcomers…
Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey on Friday announced that he has joined a coalition of Attorneys General from across the…
Just three-quarters of employees with Northern Light Health, a major hospital operator in Maine, said they would use the company…
The second batch of the so-called “Twitter Files” released by Elon Musk to independent journalist Bari Weiss offers conclusive proof…
Liberals in Brunswick are going to war with one another over a $70,000 painting that’s going to end up on…
Whenever someone promises two for the price of one, the savvy consumer is naturally suspicious. Should the same suspicion not…
A top Twitter lawyer fired by Elon Musk was previously a high-level FBI official who played a key role in…
The Lewiston Sun Journal news coverage of a school policy fight in the Oxford Hills School District left some readers…
Republican state lawmakers didn’t even show up for the fight to nominate Maine’s constitutional officers on Thursday. During the first…
State lawmakers debated until late Thursday night over Democratic Gov. Janet Mills massive $447 million spending proposal, a proposal she…
Democratic Gov. Janet Mills wants state lawmakers to approve her plan to spend nearly half a billion dollars in taxpayer…
Republican lawmakers introduced a plan Tuesday to change Maine tax law to punish any business that opts to boycott the…
UPDATE: Originally reported on Friday, Dec. 2, this story accurately predicted the nature and scope of the first major legislative…
The Oxford Hills School Board voted unanimously Tuesday night to indefinitely postpone the adoption of a controversial policy that would…
Maine’s needle exchange program requires users to turnover one used needle in order to get one clean needle. But at…
The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing yet another case that will determine whether LGBT activists can compel artists to produce…
Former Republican President Donald Trump said the revelation that high level Twitter employees, with involvement from the FBI, coordinated a…