The DCNF – Jennie Taer on February 16, 2023 The number of American troops dying from fentanyl more than doubled between…
From DCNF – Bronson Winslow on February 16, 2023 Democratic lawmakers are seeking large amounts of funding for climate concerns in…
It hasn’t been a good week for CNN, and Don Lemon didn’t help this morning when he suggested on-air that the 51-year…
The fate of President Joe Biden’s nominee to serve on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)’s could rest in the hands…
If you were to rely just on University of Maine political science professor Amy Fried’s take, you could safely assume that…
One of the best ways to “modulate the behavior” of the media in a free(ish) society is to take control…
An Auburn manufacturer has won a major victory in its fight against Chinese competitors following a federal determination that will…
The Mt. Ararat Schools (MSAD 75) are once again leaderless following the resignation of Superintendent Steven B. Connolly, which will…
The Washington Free Beacon on Tuesday reported that Anthony McRae, the gunman in a mass shooting at Michigan State Monday…
Hundreds of students in Milford, N.H., staged a walkout Friday over school officials’ decision to ban urinals for the purpose…
A University of Southern Maine professor has filed a lawsuit against the UMaine system alleging that she was wrongfully fired…
Gov. Janet Mills made the case for her $10.3 billion biennial budget – almost one billion dollars and more than…
A coalition of left-wing groups is lobbying lawmakers to kill LD 123, a bill that would repeal a provision of…
National media joined the chorus of Maine’s Fourth Estate in taking a moment Monday to coo over the poetry of…
Republican leaders in the Maine House and Senate are taking aim at those who target the state’s iconic lobster industry…
Former South Carolina Governor and ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley today became the first female and second Republican to formally announce…
Amber Lavigne joined Fox & Friends this morning to talk about her discovery in December that the Great Salt Bay…
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has added the controversial mRNA COVID-19 shots to the list of vaccines…
Editor’s Note: This article has been adapted from an address to the annual meeting of the Fund for American Studies on…
Gov. Janet Mills has thrown her support behind a bill from Sen. Anne Carney (D-Cumberland) that would eliminate the long-standing…
Where’s the “vision thing,” Joe? In a State of the Union speech that took President Biden 73 minutes to deliver…
You’re fed up. Maybe the local school is trying to brainwash your kids into little left-wing foot soldiers. Or the…
Does the Philadelphia Eagles loss in last night’s Super Bowl cast a shadow over the future prospects of their number…
New Hampshire residents overwhelmingly believe that parents — not school administrators — should have the final say when it comes…
UPDATE: The IRS now claims it will not be taxing the $450 checks. The Internal Revenue Service, recently invigorated with…
A self-described queer former counselor from St. Louis is blowing the whistle on the gender clinic she worked at for…
Congress just bigfooted the District of Columbia’s city council by overturning its recent changes to its criminal justice law that…
Students looking to enroll in Maine’s Community Colleges will have one less barrier to entry thanks to the system’s lifting…
The state of Maine is extending a sole-source no bid contract with Ethos Marketing of Westbrook to promote COVID-19 mRNA…
Maine Senate Republicans launched an initiative on Wednesday to stabilize the sagging labor market in the state while taking aim…
On Wednesday morning, tens of students briefly left school to protest the Maine Wire’s journalism. The real story here is…
Eighty year old President Joe Biden delivered his first State of the Union Address Tuesday evening — the first time…
When the Pines Church wanted to rent the Hermon High School for their Sunday services last November, Hermon School Board…
Republican lawmakers held a press conference Tuesday to tout several welfare reform proposals, including the restoration of welfare work requirements…
Oklahoma lawmakers are considering several proposals that would protect parent’s rights in education and ban controversial sex-change procedures for minors.…
The Daily Caller News Foundation – Jennie Taer on February 6, 2023 New York City is busing illegal immigrants to the…
Maine’s prospects for adopting a voter identification law don’t look great for the current legislature. LD 34, “An Act to…
How should Mainers grade President Joe Biden when he delivers his State of the Union Address to Congress Tuesday night?…
Responding to recent cases first reported by The Maine Wire, several state representatives have introduced bills in the current legislative…
Around seven or eight years ago, I was sitting in the room in which the Legislature’s Education and Cultural Affairs…
A Maine mom is calling on the school board of the Great Salt Bay Community School in Damariscotta to investigate…
The 1956 French classic “The Red Balloon” tells the tale of a young boy who befriends a stray gasbag and…
As temperatures plummeted on Friday, Maine residents and businesses relied mostly on nuclear energy, natural gas, and oil for their…
Gov. Janet Mills is looking to hire a consultant who will study potential ways Maine can “decarbonize.” For the uninitiated,…
Like a sleeping giant awoken from its stupor, Hunter Biden’s legal team snapped into action on Wednesday as it filed a flurry…
The Maine Drug Enforcement Agency arrested two Lawrence, Mass., women Thursday night for trafficking and attempting to distribute a massive…
Have you heard how cold outside it is? Well, if you haven’t, it’s wicked cold. The National Weather Service out…
The Judiciary Committee rejected a bill Thursday that would have allowed victims of malicious vandalism by minors to collect up…
The U.S. Treasury Department has released an insane chart projecting U.S. debt-GDP ratio out to 2090. https://twitter.com/LynAldenContact/status/1620447620987785216 The chart shows…
Rep. Jared Golden (D-ME) said Thursday he will continue to serve on the House of Representatives Armed Services Committee. Golden…
Portland Press Herald music journalist Aimsel Ponti was so triggered by a sign she saw in Portland that she couldn’t…
Maine Wire Editor-in-Chief Steve Robinson joined WGAN’s Matt Gagnon Thursday morning to talk about the Maine Wire’s exclusive reporting on…
A New Jersey city councilwoman was shot dead in New Jersey Wednesday evening in what appears to be a targeted…
It was nine years ago today that New York City Mayor Warren Wilhelm, Jr. (pseudonym: “Bill of Blasio”) strode to…
Maine’s top news outlets have been ignoring bombshell revelations from the so-called “Twitter Files.” For anyone familiar with Maine’s newspaper…
Speaking to graduates of the school of journalism at the University of California at Berkeley in 2019, New York Times…
The Maine Department of Education makes certain data available through an online portal per the terms of the Every Student…
Maine’s top newspaper editors joined Maine Public Broadcasting’s Jennifer Rooks for a “month in review” segment last Friday in which…
Former Republican President Donald Trump, currently the top announced candidate for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, released a video this…
State lawmakers in Virginia are debating a proposed law that would prevent schools from secretly transitioning the genders of students…
If you haven’t been following the Dead Whale Beat out of New Jersey and New York, then you might not…
Have a tip for the Maine Wire? Drop us an email! A Falmouth parent was bullied and accused of being…
Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows is expected to testify at the State House on Feb. 6 when the State…
Federal employees in some ways got the easiest side of the pandemic: None of them missed a paycheck, they all…
My friend Richard is what I guess you would call a centrist Democrat, though he doesn’t like party labels. But…
The number of people attempting to enter the U.S. illegally through Maine spiked in 2022, according to Customs and Border…
The newest “Twitter Files” revelations show that a group of left-wing political operatives calling themselves “Hamilton 68” scammed millions of…
It was a restless crowd at the Maine State Republican committee meeting Saturday in Augusta when grassroots activists in the…
City of Boston Mayor Michelle Wu on Thursday announced a special recognition for former Boston Globe editor Brian McGrory. January…
A top official at the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) admitted in a presentation Thursday that the…
Maine Wire Editor-in-Chief Steve Robinson joined WVOM’s George Hale and Ric Tyler to talk about the latest reporting on the…
Images posted to Facebook by an art teacher at Brunswick Junior High show middle school students learning about 15 different…
Democratic politicians and activists appear to have coordinated a nationwide campaign to mislead taxpayers about a proposal from Republican lawmakers…
I have hesitated for months to write this. I know the hate and threats that will come my way. Even…
Undercover video released by Project Veritas on Wednesday showed a high-level employee at pharmaceutical giant Pfizer spilling company secrets. Now,…
So much for Mr. Nice Guy! California Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Hollywood) isn’t waiting around anymore to see if California Sen. Dianne Feinstein,…
Low-income Maine residents have begun receiving letters informing them that their Food Stamp benefits will be slashed in March. In…
Undercover video released by Project Veritas on Wednesday shows a high-level employee at pharmaceutical giant Pfizer spilling company secrets about…
News Center Maine, the Portland-based NBC affiliate owned by Tegna Inc., cribbed the Maine Wire’s exclusive reporting on the abrupt…
A woman with dual citizenship in Canada and France pleaded guilty Wednesday to attempting to assassinate former President Donald Trump…
An explosive report from a government watchdog found several problems with a grant program that provided American taxpayer dollars to…
The South Portland City Council met Tuesday night to work on rules that might resolve the ongoing refugee and homelessness…
After surging briefly thanks to all the scared flatlanders fleeing the pandemic, Maine has once again dropped in U-Haul’s annual…
Maine Sen. Susan Collins is backing legislation that would prevent the White House from selling further Strategic Petroleum Reserves (SPR)…
State lawmakers heard Tuesday from a staffer on a new state commission who advised them to oppose “race neutral” policies…
The three challengers for chairperson of the Maine Republican Party’s seat traveled to the Phippsburg Sportsmen Association on Tuesday evening…
Before writing anything further here, please excuse any saltiness in my take. Full disclosure: I pleaded guilty to failing to…
A substitute teacher at the King Middle School in Portland was removed from the classroom last week and banned from…
A Democratic State Representative and a former Republican candidate were both indicted in December for fraud related to Maine’s so-called…
Boston City Councilor Julia Mejia filed a lawsuit Thursday in Massachusetts’ Suffolk Superior Court claiming journalist Aidan Kearney has libeled…
A Maine business owner who used a fake email to threaten people who left him negative reviews on the Internet…
In a video posted to Youtube on Saturday, Senate President Troy Jackson (D-Aroostook) said all income tax cuts are essentially…
Attorney General Merrick Garland said Monday that the U.S. Justice Department does not have different sets of rules based on…
Famed anti-capitalist and environmentalist superstar Greta Thunberg refused to condemn oil producing nations in the Middle East or Russian President…
Senate President Troy Jackson (D-Aroostook) posted a video to social media on Saturday complaining about Citizens United v. FEC, a…
Who knew the U.S. government has a Chief Performance Officer? Until the White House announced on Sunday that the president has…
The child of Democratic Massachusetts U.S. Rep. Katherine Clark was arrested Saturday night after allegedly assaulting a police officer and…
Maine Rep. Chellie Pingree is calling on the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate whether the propane industry has been…
A Kennebunkport man was arrested for the second time in recent months Saturday in Atlanta following a terror campaign against…
The Maine Department of Transportation (MDOT) is considering ways to make traveling from Portland to Bangor easier. One option is…