A Rumford woman accused of elder abuse and financial exploitation for allegedly stealing more than $1,000 from an elderly relative for whom she was the primary caretaker was arrested on multiple felony charges on Tuesday.…

When anti-Trump Maine businesses called a news conference recently to lobby against the administration’s proposed and imposed tariffs, the fawning legacy media couldn’t set up their cameras and mics quickly enough. Predictably, the news coverage…

Tarlan Ahmadov stepped down as director of the Maine Office of New Americans in early April — just three months after his appointment to the position by Governor Janet Mills — officially citing health concerns,…

Yet another bill aiming to allow Maine municipalities to adopt a local option sales tax has been introduced in Augusta just days after the legislative committee that reviews tax proposals rejected a similar “revenue raiser”…

It’s been a busy week for law enforcement in the Paris area. On Thursday, a Maine State Police tactical team joined the Paris Police Department in a raid on a South Paris drug den, leading…

The Maine Rail Group (MRG), a pro-railway non-profit lobbying organization, is presenting survey data claiming that 58 percent of Mainers would “occasionally” ride a train line between Portland and Orono in order to push for…

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Over the past year, Maine has seen a series of high-profile raids on Chinese-run massage parlors suspected of operating as fronts for sex trafficking and forced labor. These operations, in at least two instances were…

Maine lawmakers on the Taxation Committee have unanimously rejected three proposals to increase the state’s homestead exemption, a program designed to help lower the property tax bill on Mainers’ primary residences. While one of the…

Rep. Cheryl Golek (D-Harpswell) withdrew a bill from consideration on Monday that would have mandated LGBTQ education curriculum in all public schools across the state. [RELATED: Maine Democrats Now Want to Mandate LGBTQ Education Even…

Rumford Police arrested both a fugitive who had been evading law enforcement for nearly a year and a domestic violence suspect after a standoff in two separate incidents on Wednesday. According to Rumford Police, a…

Maine Republicans are working to end some of the new restrictions placed on gun ownership in the state last year with a trio of bills either to repeal the 72-hour waiting period for firearm purchases…

A report of shots fired in the Town of Paris on Wednesday led to a high-speed police chase involving multiple law enforcement agencies and the arrest of a Massachusetts man, the Maine State Police announced…

Yarmouth Police last week arrested a transgender-identifying man, Deserai Collins, 33, after he allegedly stole a van in Portland, led law enforcement on a multi-town chase, and crashed into two police cruisers, injuring two officers.…

The Supreme Court in Britain ruled Wednesday that men identifying as trans women are not legally regarded as women under the nation’s equality legislation. The judgment comes after a long legal battle over whether men identifying as…

Mainers had the opportunity on Tuesday to testify on three Republican-led bills that aim to protect students from sexually explicit material and give parents more say in what happens to their children in school. [RELATED:…

Maine’s Racial Equity Commission has emerged among the most frequent abusers of the sloppy no-bid contract system recently scrutinized in State Auditor Matt Dunlap’s 2024 annual report. According to copies of Project Justification Forms (PJFs)…

Is federal Medicaid spending, which last year amounted to over $580 billion, a virtual sacred cow for which reform or cuts in spending are unthinkable? House Republicans in Congress have called for a ten year…

Two individuals out on bail were arrested in Rockland on Monday after police found fentanyl in their vehicle during a traffic stop. Rockland Police say that at around 9 p.m. on Monday officers stopped a…

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It’s Easter weekend, but the only Easter egg to be found under the dome in Augusta is just another goose egg on the scoreboard for anything even close to resembling an emergency to justify this…

America’s youngest national security advisor, former Hillary Clinton and Amy Klobuchar aide Jake Sullivan, took center stage at Harvard University on Tuesday to share with Kennedy School of Government professor Graham Allison some of his…

A Maine GOP lawmaker is looking to establish a new special committee tasked with reviewing routine technical rulemaking by state agencies in the name of ensuring “transparency, accountability, and alignment with the public interest.” Under…

The Somerset County Sheriff’s Office arrested three people and seized $40,000 in drugs, including enough fentanyl to supply 185,000 lethal doses, during a raid at a home in Fairfield on Wednesday. At about 5:45 a.m.…