Republican candidate for Governor of Maine Robert “Bobby” Charles issued an early statement on Monday about his fundraising results for the first quarter of his campaign for the 2026 election. In the 75 days since…

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A Hampton, New Hampshire man led NH State Police on a multi-town chase, straying into Maine, involving multiple Maine law-enforcement agencies and culminating in Kittery. [RELATED: NH 18-Year-Old Opens Fire at Hampton Beach, Shooting Three…

JoAnna St. Germain, the Waterville teacher who made international headlines in May for her Facebook posts calling for President Donald Trump and his supporters to be murdered, appears to no longer work as a teacher…

Louis Sigel, a Kennebec County Democrat has submitted paperwork with the Federal Elections Committee (FEC) to challenge incumbent Congressman Jared Golden (ME-CD2) for the Democratic Party nomination, a filing on Monday shows. The Gardiner-based “Legal…

New Hampshire authorities are investigating a potential murder-suicide that took place on Sunday at a Mexican restaurant in Berlin, just north of Mount Washington. [RELATED: Answers Elusive in Killing of Tenants Harbor Woman…] Officers responded…

The state’s top tourism association official says Maine is on par for a great season – tariffs or no tariffs. Brian Langley, chairman of the board of the Maine Tourism Association, told The Maine Wire…

York County Sheriff’s deputies responded on Saturday to 7 Jackson’s Corner Store at 1486 Alfred Road in Lyman to reports of a man reportedly accosting and fighting with store patrons before chasing people with a…

The Maine State Fire Marshal’s Office is investigating a fireworks malfunction that injured three crew members during a display at Sunday River Ski Resort on Barker Mountain Road over the weekend. According to officials, the…

The Sanford Police Department on Monday announced five major arrests from last week, including three people arrested at a home in Sanford as the result of a joint operation with the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency…

After Eastern Maine Community College (EMCC) professor Carol Lewandowski received significant backlash for providing unprofessional and discriminatory feedback to a student’s essay about gun control, Lewandowski will no longer be teaching the class for the…

Some House Democrats told Axios that their constituents have encouraged them to prepare for violence and “be willing to get shot” while resisting President Donald Trump’s agenda. Democratic lawmakers said that there has been mounting…

A vacationing cop repeatedly slugged her firefighter boyfriend in an otherwise-sleepy western Maine town amid a pre-July 4th violent domestic battle, officials say. Kelsey Fitzsimmons, 28, a North Andover, Massachusetts police officer, reportedly assaulted her…

Since Thursday, when authorities declared the death of a Tenants Harbor woman on or near a pond in Union to be a homicide, few answers have emerged to how 48-year-old Sunshine Stewart was killed last…

America has a real shot at ending its dangerous reliance on the People’s Republic of China (PRC) for rare earth elements, but only if it is willing to take decisive action, industry experts say. Rare…

The Portland Press Herald appears to have been erroneously reporting that two of its former staffers would be the first married couple to win Jeopardy, angering the wildly-popular TV show’s fanbase across the country. A…

Gov. Janet Mills (D) has signed a bill into law creating the Maine Department of Energy Resources, a cabinet-level department responsible for coordinating and leading the state’s energy policy and programs. In January, the governor…

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act — a national budget bill that includes many of the key policies of President Donald Trump’s (R) second term agenda — has now been sent to the President’s desk…

Maine Gov. Janet Mills lost her cool on a Fox News reporter who asked her about re-surfaced allegations that she was a heavy cocaine user in the 1980s and 1990s, including while serving as a…

ABC News, Facebook, and Paramount’s CBS have all paid millions to Trump over attempts to silence, censor, or maliciously impair his political career. President Donald Trump has triumphed in his legal crusade against the media,…

Pretty unusual for a small Maine town to be educating the state’s governor – except if it’s the indigenous-deaf Janet Mills. The little town of Yarmouth just trumped Mills big time – by proudly endorsing…

A violent “transgender” male prisoner was quietly transferred back to a men’s prison in June, years after he was accused of sexually assaulting his female cellmate in a women’s prison. Christopher Scott Williams, who is…

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