More than a quarter of Mainers feel that the most important problem facing the state right now is the political…
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Tuesday released immigration data and arrest totals for the first 100 days of…
A Maine “journalist” who says he “goes places – and tells stories – that other media won’t” also does something…
Maine’s Secretary of State will imminently release the ballot wording for a referendum question to go before voters this November…
Portland residents and business owners are speaking out and asking the City Council for help to address what they say…
Does your heart pound with dread every time the electric bill lands in your mailbox? If so, you’re not alone.…
If the Portland Press Herald could credibly blame the vice president of the United States for banning adults from a…
The Maine Legislature’s Health and Human Services Committee held a public hearing Monday on a bill that proposes to increase…
A bipartisan group of Maine representatives joined together on Thursday to kill a “Defend the Guard” bill from Rep. Benjamin…
The new-and-improved versions of what was always basic journalism are now on sale at your favorite local constabularies. The Bangor…
The New Hampshire Free State Project (FSP) hosted its annual NH Liberty Forum this past weekend, featuring presentations from a…
Maine Rep. Laurel Libby’s (R-Auburn) has filed an emergency petition to the United States Supreme Court, asking for their intervention…
A Maine man accused of carrying out a violent carjacking in Massachusetts over the weekend has been apprehended in New…
In Maine, we know we can do better. Many of us recall days when life was predictable, safe, affordable, normal…
Don’t you wish there were cameras set up on Maine highways to catch you speeding, so you can get tickets…
A 67-year-old Wesley man and former school bus driver for the Machias Bay Area School System (AOS 96) has been…
A proposed constitutional amendment requiring at least two-thirds support to increase Mainers’ taxes is up for a public hearing early…
A bipartisan group of lawmakers have introduced a bill that aims to provide property tax relief to Maine homeowners, as…
A 15-year-old has been arrested in connection to a Tuesday shooting on Bartlett Street in Lewiston. Lewiston Police announced on…
The Maine state GOP lawmaker who got officially silenced by Democrats for defending girls’ high-school sports is now fighting her…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) on Thursday signed a proclamation recognizing the Armenian genocide just months after appointed a now-resigned…
Imagine two nuclear-armed, global superpowers sleepwalking into a war that would, by conservative estimates, cost at least 10,000 American lives…
Thomas College, a private post-secondary institution in Waterville, Maine, is under scrutiny from the U.S. Department of Justice following a…
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr.’s “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) agenda is moving…
President Donald Trump aims to restore “common sense” to school discipline practices with a Wednesday executive order that will end…
A Democrat-led bill aimed at softening the criminal possession thresholds for crack cocaine was advanced by the Maine Legislature’s Criminal…
Bangor Publishing Company — the company that owns both the Bangor Daily News (BDN) and a lesser-known marketing agency —…
Maine’s new Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML) Program was the center of sustained attention Wednesday afternoon in Augusta as…
A Guilford-based business is touting a simple trick to avoid disruptions caused by President Donald Trump’s tariffs and trade negotiations:…
The Maine native who made a cottage industry out of poking fun at downeasters is about to have the last…
Noting an uptick of crime in Maine committed by individuals out on bail for a previous offense, Sen. David Haggan…
Rep. Kristen Cloutier (D-Lewiston) withdrew a bill earlier this month that would have put taxpayer-funded tampons in public school boys’…
The Maine Legislature’s Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs (ECA) held public hearings for four Democrat-led bills on Tuesday aimed…
Lewiston Police are investigating a pair of shooting incidents that occurred on the same street over two separate days this…
Rep. Mike Soboleski (R-Phillips) penned a letter to U.S. Attorney General (AG) Pam Bondi, signed by nearly every Republican in…
U.S. Senator Angus King (I-Maine) is undeterred by the “No Kings” signs that have become prominent at recurring ‘Hands Off’…
Maine’s Democrat-controlled legislature has approved a measure that will create a $12M fund for the benefit of Maine’s abortion clinic…
President Donald Trump’s administration issued stop-work orders earlier this month on three University of Maine (UMaine) offshore wind development projects,…
Maine Rep. Laurel Libby (R-Auburn) has filed an emergency appeal of an April 19 ruling on her lawsuit against Maine…
The head of U.S. Border Patrol Houlton (USBP) Houlton Sector, Chief Patrol Agent (CPA) Juan Bernal, retired during a ceremony…
A homeless man is facing a dozen counts of aggravated reckless conduct with a firearm for allegedly firing a handgun…
A reclusive Swiss liberal billionaire whose cash helped buy Maine’s largest paper is now being targeted by several states over…
Hansjorg Wyss in 2015 (Oceana / Wikimedia Commons)
An Ecuadorian national now faces federal charges for allegedly attempting to transport a group of illegal aliens through Vermont. On…
There’s an old saying in Washington that goes “where you stand is where you sit,” which is to say too…
The federal jurist assigned to the federal lawsuit against Maine for refusing to bar transgender-identifying men from women’s sports, U.S.…
Duke superstar freshman and Newport native Cooper Flagg has confirmed that he is officially entering the NBA draft. Flagg, the…
A group of renegades from Maine’s upper reaches tired of liberal Gov. Janet Mills (D) are forming their own faction…
The Winthrop and Monmouth Police Departments both rescinded their applications for an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) partnership program on…
U.S. State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce confirmed on Thursday that the Chinese satellite company, Chang Guang Satellite Technology, is “directly”…
Why would a nationally-recognized Democrat pollster pen an article about her political research in the state of Maine? It could…
Portland Police have made an arrest following a Sunday shooting that left a 36-year-old woman with non-life threatening injuries. Police…
A 39-year-old Portland man was arrested early Sunday after a nearly two-hour standoff with police, during which he threatened officers…
Pope Francis passed away early Monday morning at the age of 88 after a 12-year pontificate, just hours after making…
A bipartisan group of Maine lawmakers have introduced a bill aiming to increase the value of the state’s Property Tax…
Democrat lawmakers are looking to expand the use of ranked choice voting (RCV) to all Maine elections, including for the…
New Hampshire U.S. District Judge Joseph N. Laplante ruled on Wednesday that the Trump administration must give 72 hours’ notice…
Both nationally, and especially in places like Maine, housing is becoming unaffordable for too many. This trend kills the American…
Democratic U.S. Rep. Jared Golden (ME-CD2) is courting Maine’s “No Labels” third-party as speculation builds over when he’ll announce what…
Maine’s House Democrats slipped a surprise vote onto Thursday’s legislative calendar to force through a proposed equal rights amendment to…
Democratic lawmakers in the Maine House of Representatives on Thursday voted down a bill that would have shifted the financial…
Rhode Island-based U.S. District Court Judge Melissa DuBose reportedly issued a ruling late on Friday denying Maine State Rep. Laurel…
If you wanted to build a name for yourself with Maine Democrats to lay the foundations to run against Republican…
President Donald Trump moved to reinvigorate the U.S. seafood industry and restore U.S. dominance on Thursday with an executive order…
Tarlan Ahmadov stepped down as director of the Maine Office of New Americans in early April — just three months…
Yet another bill aiming to allow Maine municipalities to adopt a local option sales tax has been introduced in Augusta…
It’s been a busy week for law enforcement in the Paris area. On Thursday, a Maine State Police tactical team…
The Maine Rail Group (MRG), a pro-railway non-profit lobbying organization, is presenting survey data claiming that 58 percent of Mainers…
Over the past year, Maine has seen a series of high-profile raids on Chinese-run massage parlors suspected of operating as…
Maine lawmakers on the Taxation Committee have unanimously rejected three proposals to increase the state’s homestead exemption, a program designed…
Rep. Cheryl Golek (D-Harpswell) withdrew a bill from consideration on Monday that would have mandated LGBTQ education curriculum in all…
Rumford Police arrested both a fugitive who had been evading law enforcement for nearly a year and a domestic violence…
In Maine, where the transgender issue is playing out in dramatic form before the public eye, Portland public schools superintendent…
A report of shots fired in the Town of Paris on Wednesday led to a high-speed police chase involving multiple…
Former New York City police sergeant Mike McMahon, 57, will pay a price for aiding the Chinese government in tracking…
Yarmouth Police last week arrested a transgender-identifying man, Deserai Collins, 33, after he allegedly stole a van in Portland, led…
A Salvadoran national living illegally in United States and whom federal authorities say is a member of the violent Mara…
Mainers had the opportunity on Tuesday to testify on three Republican-led bills that aim to protect students from sexually explicit…
Maine’s Racial Equity Commission has emerged among the most frequent abusers of the sloppy no-bid contract system recently scrutinized in…
Is federal Medicaid spending, which last year amounted to over $580 billion, a virtual sacred cow for which reform or…
Two individuals out on bail were arrested in Rockland on Monday after police found fentanyl in their vehicle during a…
America’s youngest national security advisor, former Hillary Clinton and Amy Klobuchar aide Jake Sullivan, took center stage at Harvard University…
The Somerset County Sheriff’s Office arrested three people and seized $40,000 in drugs, including enough fentanyl to supply 185,000 lethal…
A Dominican illegal alien who was previously deported from the United States has been arrested in Massachusetts and charged with…
A Biddeford man will serve as long as a decade in federal prison for possessing hundreds of child sexual abuse…
U.S. Attorney General (AG) Pam Bondi, joined by women’s sports advocate Riley Gaines, Maine Rep. Laurel Libby (R-Auburn), Secretary of…
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) will begin chip production at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company’s (TSMC) facility in Arizona, marking the first…
The Department of Justice (DOJ) charged a self-professed “queer scientist” linked to the firebombing of a Tesla dealership and the…
Maine firearm dealers could be forced to hand out “public health brochures” with their firearms thanks to a bill from…
Lawmakers on the Taxation Committee have unanimously rejected a Democrat-led bill that would have revitalized a now-defunct property tax stabilization…
President Donald Trump’s administration is taking new steps to crack down on illegal immigration this month, with fines of nearly…
Just two weeks after Waldo County Hospital closed its maternity and birthing unit citing declining birth rates, on Monday Rep.…
A fugitive investigation by the U.S. Marshal’s Service (USMS) on Friday resulted in the arrests of three people in Biddeford…
A Chinese national who in 2023 was arrested for sexual assault at a massage parlor he owned in Ellsworth is…
While Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro and his family slept after celebrating the Seder, a solemn Passover meal, at their home…
Maine’s Veterans and Legal Affairs Committee held a public hearing Monday morning for a proposal concerning Maine’s unique method of…
The distribution of Maine’s four presidential electoral votes was up for grabs in Augusta Monday morning, as lawmakers on the…
A new “Maine” paper claiming the name of an oldie but a goodie has announced its creation – as a…
Worcester, Massachusetts, is now mandating a new regimen of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) training for firefighters, just months after…
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) must resume federal education funding for Maine, according to a Friday ruling from…