Maine’s top housing and public health officials issued an extraordinary warning Monday about how a new federal mcap would affect…
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A Lebanon, Maine, man was arrested by the New Hampshire State Police on Friday after he allegedly fled from a…
The Maine State Fire Marshal’s Office is investigating a fatal house fire in Washington County after firefighters discovered a body…
The vast majority of Mainers are pessimistic about the projected impact of artificial intelligence (AI) over the next decade according…
Cumberland County leaders on Monday rejected a proposal that would have ended a federal contract allowing the county jail to…
Trees may be nice at a cemetery, but Southwest Harbor burial bosses are putting their foot down. Their view is,…
A penny for your thought? How about a gift-card for a penny? Grocery chains across the northeast, including in Maine,…
With the City of Lewiston facing crises on multiple fronts, from homelessness to gun violence and drug addiction to lingering…
Former Saco Mayor Bill Doyle is one of two candidates vying for the vacant Ward 3 City Council seat in…
U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-ME) wants the world to know about her decision to vote against the bill allowing the…
A special election is likely on the horizon for Maine House District 94 in Lewiston after longtime Democratic Rep. Kristen…
Former Maine Senate president and 2018 Republican gubernatorial primary candidate Garrett Mason filed paperwork with the state to form an…
A long-running and divisive fight over whether the Cumberland County Jail should continue holding Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees is…
Maine’s administration of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is receiving renewed attention as federal officials enforce stricter data-reporting requirements…
Auburn Republican Laurel Libby will not run for another term in the Maine House next year, she announced Monday morning.…
A sprawling national black-market for renting and selling DoorDash accounts has quietly become one of the most widespread and least…
A few years back, a man who was then a state representative shared with me a frustration he had about…
Maine’s Senator Susan Collins (R) announced Friday that she and two other lawmakers led a bipartisan group of senators in…
Maine’s electricity costs have risen faster than those of any other state in the nation, and the trend has become…
A man fell from the roof of a bus onto the Maine Turnpike on Friday after hoisting himself aloft to…
Known for its beautiful foliage, Maine is often a destination during the autumn months for those looking to soak in…
A new report from the Tax Foundation analyzes the burden imposed by states upon their residents, taking into consideration sales…
A 40-foot red spruce from a Portland Housing Authority property will become this year’s Monument Square holiday tree, with crews…
New York just elected a communist, antisemitic, Muslim mayor, and Maine is tipping that way. There is plainly trouble in…
The House of Representatives is poised to vote next week on legislation that would compel the Department of Justice to…
Earlier this week, The Maine Wire ran an op-ed by Larry Lockman entitled “Ballot Box Boomerang: Will Maine Republicans Overcome…
The board of directors at grocery chain Market Basket is locked in a legal dispute with former CEO Arthur T.…
A new federal restriction on commercial driver’s licenses (CDLs) is poised to disrupt public transit across southern Maine, leaving Greater…
A sweeping new federal restriction buried deep in Congress’s latest spending bill is poised to wipe out most of America’s…
Old Thom, a North Atlantic orca known for being the only killer whale regularly sighted in the Gulf of Maine,…
The Houlton Police Department arrested a man on Monday after he allegedly stole cartons of cigarettes from a local smoke…
The Rumford Police Department arrested a convicted felon on Thursday after he allegedly cashed a $6,000 canceled check following over…
Three years after getting fried in a devastating fire, Penobscot McCrum, which has harvested and processed Maine potatoes since 1886,…
Justice John O’Neil declared a mistrial on Wednesday in the high-profile manslaughter case of Aziayh Scott, 24, of Louisiana, who…
While conducting a welfare check on Tuesday, Fairfield police discovered a dead body in a circumstance they termed unusual. [RELATED:…
A coalition of more than twenty states, including Maine, have sued the Trump Administration over its decision to disqualify some…
Sanford Police Chief Eric Small announced he will run as a Republican for a seat in Maine’s State House District…
State Sen. Joe Rafferty, a Democrat from Kennebunk who has represented Maine’s District 34 for the past five years, announced…
Human remains discovered last month in northern Maine have been identified as those of a woman missing since July, authorities…
Conservative activist Nicholas Blanchard, widely known by his online persona “Corn Pop,” has entered the race for the Augusta School…
Mexico tops the list when it comes to burglary – Mexico, Maine that is, according to a new crime survey…
Three former York County Corrections Officers were indicted on November 4 after they allegedly accepted bribes from a prisoner to…
President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed legislation to reopen the federal government, ending the longest shutdown in U.S. history after…
Iman Osman, recently elected to represent Ward 5 on the Lewiston City Council and currently serving on the Lewiston School…
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner’s campaign has been paying his wife a biweekly salary, according to recent filings with…
A former York County corrections officer was in a romantic relationship and living with a wanted fugitive and former prisoner…
The dynastic trials seem to be rearing their ugly heads as a Maine prince-in-waiting delicately shadows The King. When Democrat…
Let’s see … Maine needs an economic boost, it’s on the Atlantic coast, it already has a major Coast Guard…
Radically left-wing Senate hopeful Graham Platner is polling far below incumbent Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) in a new poll obtained…
The state that supplies 90 percent of the U.S. lobster supply is trying to navigate the waters of an international…
A new grassroots movement calling itself Common Sense for Maine is kicking off its first annual “Tailgate for Common Sense”…
Jordan Wood, a Bristol Democrat who had been seeking to challenge Republican U.S. Sen. Susan Collins in next year’s election,…
Four of the eight Republican candidates for governor marked Veterans Day with a spirited debate Monday night, trading views on…
The deal now making its way from the Senate to the House that will bring an end to the record-long…
During the first Trump administration, some wondered why the president so proficient at parceling out nicknames insisted on calling the…
The Bangor City Council voted unanimously on Monday to end public comments held remotely via Zoom at its first meeting…
Portland’s City Council on Monday approved an ordinance requiring owners of vacant storefronts in the city’s pedestrian district to register…
Sanford Police Chief Eric Smalls ended his Republican bid for Rep. Chellie Pingree’s (D-Maine) First Congressional District (CD1) House seat…
The day before the crushing defeat of Question One on November 4th— which would have reformed absentee voting and mandated…
Despite dozens of approved projects and strong demand for new housing, several major developments in Portland are stalled as rising…
A chimney fire early Monday left a single-family home on Wolff Farm Lane in this York County coastal town as…
Maine will only resettle 50 refugees through the federal refugee program in the 2026 fiscal year after President Donald Trump…
A Saco physical education teacher has cinched his third Guinness World Record, this time for the most high school three-pointers…
A new poll from the University of New Hampshire Survey Center offers some early insight into the 2028 presidential primary…
Four-term congressman Jared Golden’s (D-Maine) surprise announcement on Wednesday that he would not be seeking re-election drastically altered the high-stakes…
President Donald Trump has granted “full, complete and unconditional” pardons to several high-profile allies accused of attempting to overturn the…
Police in Rockland arrested a sex offender from Arkansas on Saturday after he was found sleeping in an unmarked van…
A months-long legal campaign by a Canadian ostrich farm to “save” 300 of its birds from government culling has gone…
The reports of ballots turning up in unexpected places during elections are often described by officials as isolated and unlikely…
The University of Southern Maine (USM) is hosting what it describes as “the largest campus and community drag show in…
The Cumberland County Sheriff’s Department is searching for an alleged scammer who attempted to steal $19,500 from an elderly Maine…
Maine School Administrative District (MSAD) 54, encompassing Skowhegan and surrounding towns, held an event for Maine’s “Seventh Annual Day of…
A King Middle School student on the way to school in Portland was attacked Thursday by a stranger, the second…
The nation’s first-ever transgender-identifying state lawmaker, a former New Hampshire Democratic representative for Nashua, pleaded guilty this week to the…
Deputies of the Penobscot County Sheriff arrested an armed, homeless sex offender in Stetson with help from some canine friends…
The headlines back then were: Mississippi became the 20th state, the Erie Canal’s construction began, and James Monroe was sworn…
Maine’s Sen. Susan Collins (R) has asked U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Brooke Rollins to provide disaster assistance to…
A Lewiston man with an extensive criminal history pleaded guilty on Thursday to a manslaughter charge after a 2023 shooting…
Woodland Pulp of Baileyville has announced it is going dark temporarily due to lack of business and in the face…
The Maine State Housing Authority announced Wednesday that an initial round of Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP) payments will be…
California voters have approved Proposition 50, a redistricting measure that temporarily removes congressional map-drawing authority from the state’s independent redistricting…
Conservatives picked up an additional seat on the Augusta City Council election on Tuesday after a newcomer defeated the incumbent…
The U.S. Marshal Service apprehended an alleged New York murderer on Tuesday after he was found riding an electric scooter…
After many months of negotiations, Northern Light and Anthem have finally agreed upon a new contract, allowing patients to continue…
A federal appeals court on Tuesday allowed Florida to begin enforcing a state law that restricts real estate purchases by…
Police in Paris, Maine, arrested two alleged drug abusers on Monday while enforcing a writ of possession to remove squatters…
Fur better or fur worse, the Democrat state rep and congressional hopeful looking to skin incumbent Chellie Pingree alive was…
State Rep. Tiffany D. Roberts (D-South Berwick) launched her campaign for Maine’s First District Congressional seat in her home town…
By Paul T. McCarrier Maine’s October 27 recall of Yani vape cartridges wasn’t a fluke—it was a warning. The Office…
The public health and safety threat posed by discarded needles used most likely for intravenous drug use has been a…
Gov. Janet Mills said Wednesday that voters delivered a clear rebuke to proposed changes to Maine’s absentee voting laws, rejecting…
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday in a major challenge to President Donald Trump’s global tariff program, a case…
Rep. Jared Golden (D-Maine) will not seek re-election in the upcoming 2026 midterm elections, he announced on Wednesday, citing increased…
Maine litigator Joshua Dunlap has been confirmed to the U.S .Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, becoming the only…
State Rep. Tiffany Roberts (D-South Berwick) has formally filed paperwork to run for Maine’s First Congressional District, setting up a…
Falmouth residents have narrowly rejected an effort to repeal the town’s new pesticide and fertilizer ordinance, with about 55 percent…
The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) member and transgender-identifying male Wil Theime, who goes by Ramona, secured victory in the…
Lucas Sirois, the Franklin County businessman accused of leading a multimillion-dollar marijuana conspiracy in western Maine, is now facing new…
Liberal candidates dominated in Augusta’s school board election on Tuesday, retaining two seats and gaining a third previously held by…
There was a ray of hope for Maine conservatives amid a string of failures at the voting booth on Tuesday,…