House Speaker Ryan Fecteau (D-Biddeford) has slipped a tax change into the spending bill Democrats will pass before adjourning the…
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Jordan Wood, a progressive Democratic candidate running to unseat Republican U.S. Senator Susan Collins, last week boasted that his campaign…
Lewiston Police are investigating a shooting that occurred over the weekend that left a man with non-life-threatening injuries from two…
College graduates who immigrated to the U.S. on student visas earn substantially more than their native-born counterparts, according to an…
Scarborough Police on Saturday assisted the Maine Warden Service and U.S. Border Patrol with a suspicious death investigation after stopping…
Mainers served by Central Maine Power (CMP) can expect to see their electric bills go up next month by an…
The mark of a real politician is their ability to eat your lunch while still smiling as if you’re best…
Two leading members of the House Committee on Homeland Security began an investigation last week into 215 non-governmental organizations (NGOs)…
If you’re going to get caught breaking a law that you claim to support, make sure the news breaks going…
After considering several iterations of the same bill, a measure requiring governmental entities that charge credit card fees to accept…
A 57-year-old Warren man is facing multiple charges following an alleged break-in and assault at a residence in Owls Head.…
The Maine House voted narrowly on Friday evening to pass a bill that will ban transgender-identifying males from girls’ sports…
Mainers will not be seeing the full price tags on their ballots when they go to the polls to vote…
A Saco man is facing multiple charges after leading police on a multi-town chase through York and Cumberland Counties. Maine…
The Portland Police Department arrested two people on Saturday after they allegedly assaulted police officers at the city’s “No Kings”…
Lawmakers have voted this week to restructure the Maine’s income tax brackets to impose a higher tax rate on the…
Maine lawmakers have rejected a Harpswell Democrat’s bill to levy an additional four percent tax on income earned over $1…
Maine Civic Action, an organization focused on educating Mainers on free markets and individual liberties, announced on Friday that its…
In a series of votes reflecting Maine’s divided stance on gun control, the Maine Senate this week rejected a bill…
Reps. Jared Golden (D-Maine) and Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) joined every other House Democrat on Thursday in opposing President Donald Trump’s…
Israel’s remarkable series of strikes against Iranian military targets — including nuclear sites — early Friday morning elicited simultaneous feelings…
by Zoe Scontras I attended Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) in Virginia from eighth grade through high school. I had…
Sen. Rick Bennett (R-Oxford) voted with Democrats on Thursday night and became the only Republican to oppose a bill that…
A person was hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries after being stabbed multiple times near Main Street in South Portland on Wednesday.…
A juvenile male faces murder charges following the discovery of two deceased men at a residence in Chelsea on Wednesday…
Maine legislators have defeated a bill that sought to reverse the changes made by a controversial abortion law signed into…
Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) voted with the majority of House Democrats on Tuesday against a bill that would have stopped…
A Dixmont woman was arrested on multiple felony counts on Monday after allegedly forcing her way into a home and…
If the closings of birthing units at multiple Maine hospitals were not enough of a red flag signaling the downward…
Cape Elizabeth residents have narrowly approved an $86.5 million proposal to replace and repair the town’s aging middle and elementary…
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Facts are stubborn things, as John Adams said. No John Adams they, Portland Press Herald editors are now embarking on…
Both chambers of Maine’s legislature passed a bill on Tuesday banning “doxing” minors that could be applied in future instances…
An juvenile suspect who reportedly attempted to enter the graduation for Oceanside High School in Rockland while intoxicated has been…
Two law enforcement sources, who spoke with the Maine Wire on the condition of anonymity as they were not authorized…
Maine lawmakers have voted to expand the use of ranked choice voting to gubernatorial elections, as well as races for…
A Puerto Rican man on Tuesday was sentenced to nearly five years in prison for trafficking $40,000 worth of fentanyl…
Nearly two-thirds — an estimated 61 percent — of the South Portland residents who participated in Tuesday’s election voted to…
Businessman Owen McCarthy, 37, threw his hat into the widening ring for Maine governor on Wednesday, announcing the launch of…
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) suffered a legal loss on Tuesday when a federal judge denied his request for an immediate…
Tensions are escalating in the Maine House of Representatives as minority Republicans push back against majority Democrats’ threats of extended…
A federal judge on Monday postponed the habeas hearing for the Congolese man who has been held in U.S. Immigration…
A bid by a land trust to broker a deal between a paper company and the federal government is on…
A federal judge has temporarily blocked enforcement of President Donald Trump’s (R) executive order barring foreign students from entering the…
Maine School Administrative District (MSAD) 11 is poised to approve or deny an extremely controversial school-based medical clinic on Thursday,…
Jon Fetherston, the whistleblower who exposed the heinous crimes committed by illegal immigrants in Massachusetts’ “Healy Hotel” shelters, requested on…
A Rockland woman has been charged with her second Operating Under the Influence (OUI) offense after leading police on a…
Lawmakers have unanimously agreed to prevent medical debt from being factored into Mainers’ credit scores. Although State Law currently has…
The Satanic Temple’s abortion branch, TST Health, announced the creation of a new telehealth abortion provider serving Maine, deliberately set…
The political fallout stemming from the weekend revelation that the office of Secretary of State Shenna Bellows (D-Hallowell) has recalled…
Scarborough public school officials sent out a letter to the community this week warning of potential threats from Nihilistic Violent…
As the saying goes “you can take the boy out of the country but you can’t take the country out…
He who pays the piper calls the tune, the old saying goes. Looking closely at the most recent dust-up under…
In Augusta these days, keeping up with the latest legislative head-scratchers can be a full-time job. But one proposal stands…
South Portland residents are set to vote on a proposed $73 million school budget next Tuesday amidst concerns over public…
Maine’s largest paper buried the lead in announcing the retirement of a top veteran editor whose exit comes in the…
Maine’s House and Senate have been going back and forth for the past couple of weeks over whether or not…
House lawmakers engaged in a lengthy and impassioned debate Thursday morning over a bill requiring a photo ID to cast…
The Maine State Legislature has unanimously approved a bill increasing the number of children for whom childcare providers may be…
A Guatemalan national was sentenced in a Maine federal court on Wednesday for illegal reentry into the U.S. after a…
The internet has blown up with speculators discussing how two Mount Katahdin hikers died amid obvious warning signs to abandon…
President Donald Trump and Elon Musk, once allies, clashed publicly Thursday in a bitter dispute over the “One Big Beautiful…
President Donald Trump (R) invoked federal law to block foreign students from entering the country to study at Harvard University…
The Democrats of the Kennebunks and Arundel (DKA) is looking to form a “Rapid Response Team” in case of U.S.…
An Egyptian national with alleged ties to a terrorist organization was arrested by U.S. Border Patrol (USBP) agents in Pittsfield…
Advocates of gun control measures often speak of a “cooling off period” — usually in reference to a delay on…
The Maine House passed a net neutrality bill Wednesday with bipartisan support, as three Republican lawmakers crossed party lines to…
The Maine State Legislature’s Judiciary Committee came to three different recommendations on Wednesday to three bills prescribing how state and…
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published a list of jurisdictions with “sanctuary” policies that obstruct immigration enforcement late…
Long-time U.S. House Speaker Tip O’Neill famously said “all politics is local,” and he could just have easily been talking…
A Harpswell Democrat’s bill to levy an additional four percent tax on income earned over $1 million in order to…
You learn every day talking with people, listening to their stories, absorbing their anger, fear, and concerns and channeling that…
After rejecting a number of bills aimed at repealing or amending Maine’s new Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML) Program…
A Portland homeless man was arrested Wednesday morning for allegedly stabbing another homeless man in the city’s downtown area. Portland…
The latest version of a Maine political dynasty may be about to take down another electorally powerful family in the…
U.S. Border Patrol (USBP) in Maine is reporting a recent spike in apprehensions, including the removal of 42 illegal aliens…
The FBI arrested two Chinese citizens, Yunqing Jian, 33, and Zunyong Liu, 34, on Tuesday after they were caught allegedly…
One Maine GOP lawmaker has sought to establish a new special committee tasked with reviewing routine technical rule-making by state…
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), with the help of multiple federal agencies, arrested nearly 1,500 illegal aliens during the…
The Maine House of Representatives considered an additional series of bills during Monday’s session pertaining to the state’s new Paid…
A Portland sex offender, Steven Ricci, 61, is set to be released at the end of June despite what the…
Maine’s House of Representatives narrowly voted to decriminalize the possession of one ounce or less of psilocybin for persons 21…
In a democratic republic, such as ours, power is vested in the people. And the people are guided by a…
The Opportunity Alliance, a homeless and substance abuse service provider based in South Portland, has agreed to a nearly $350,000…
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Early frontrunners in the 2026 Maine gubernatorial race suggest the field is still just beginning to develop on both the…
It may be a sign of the times that both chambers of the Maine Legislature passed a bill on Monday…
Tensions flared in the Maine House chamber Monday night as Republican lawmakers staged a walkout in protest over extended legislative…
Flight Deck Brewing in Brunswick is under investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Wage and Hour Division for…
Who’s afraid of a public hearing? Maine legislative Republicans held a press conference on Monday to call out a move…
An effort to make the process of Maine public school students transferring from one district to another more transparent was…
Taking your car in every year for its inspection sticker is a familiar ordeal to all Maine drivers, and a…
Maine legislators have killed a bill that would have abolished the state’s income tax and required agencies to regularly engage…
by Robert Muldoon When Bates College did not release its admissions applications figures this March or April — as it…
Ogunquit police officers will be wearing new “LGBTQ+ pride patches” throughout June for “Pride Month,” which is typically celebrated through…
Portland Police last week apprehended a fugitive wanted by federal law enforcement after officers chased him down and found him…
The Maine Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) sent 42 illegal immigrants out of state for further deportation proceedings on a…
Lawmakers in Maine’s House of Representatives voted unanimously on Monday to pass “An Act to Adopt Eastern Daylight Time Year-round…
The Maine School Administrative District (MSAD) 52 school board voted Thursday night to send a potential change to its transgender…
An Egyptian man using a makeshift flamethrower and incendiary devices attacked a peaceful event on Boulder, Colorado’s Pearl Street pedestrian…