The Maine Drug Enforcement Agency (MDEA) arrested two people and seized over two kilograms of illegal drugs on Tuesday during a Bangor raid. [RELATED: Fairfield Drug Bust Leads to Arrest of Two Repeat Offenders…] Law enforcement executed a search warrant at an apartment located at 94 Sidney Street, secured as a result of a months-long investigation into cocaine and fentanyl trafficking in the area, they said. The investigation included several undercover fentanyl purchases. During the…

Maine lawmakers have voted to expand the use of ranked choice voting to gubernatorial elections, as well as races for seats in the State House and Senate. Ranked choice voting has, until now, been used to ensure that the winner of a given election secures majority support, yet Sen. Cameron Reny’s (D-Lincoln) new bill LD 1666 purports to take a different approach. Maine has used ranked choice voting for federal offices since 2018, but the…

A group of men charged with running an illegal marijuana farm in rural Maine have extensive ties to a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) organ responsible for intelligence gathering and foreign influence operations, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation found. Two of the men, who pleaded not guilty, are leaders of the Sijiu Association of New York, a Brooklyn-based nonprofit, which works closely with the New York Chinese Consulate and United Front Work Department (UFWD) — one of Beijing’s main…

As Maine’s Department of Corrections (DoC) loses federal funding for transferring one transgender-identifying male murderer to a women’s prison, the question may arise: is too much being made out of a single case? Are the state’s prisons simply accommodating the special needs of inmates, or is the system itself being taken for a ride? [RELATED: DOJ Pulls Federal Funding from Maine’s Department of Corrections for Housing a Dangerous, Biological Male in a Women’s Prison…] Andrew…

If the crash Wednesday night of a plane into the Potomac River is reminiscent to Mainers, it’s for good reason. A Cape Elizabeth woman was one of five survivors of the last plane to slam into the Potomac in 1982. Priscilla Tirado was on Air Florida Flight 90 with her husband and her baby when it crashed into the icy river Jan. 13, 1982. When Tirado lost her grip on a life ring, she was…

The Department of Defense (DOD) under President Joe Biden spent more in September than in any previous month since 2008, with some funds being used for multi-million dollar splurges on luxury items, according to an Open The Books report published Tuesday. The DOD spent a grand total of $79.1 billion in September 2024, with $33.1 billion of the amount spent within the last five working days of the fiscal year, according to the report. The sudden increase…

Maine lawmakers are set to receive a 61 percent higher salary than their predecessors when they reconvene next week. This comes as a result of legislation included in the most recent budget signed into law raising lawmakers’ compensation from $28,000 for a two-year term to $45,000. Legislators will receive $25,000 for the first session and $20,000 for the second session. Beginning in 2026, after Gov. Janet Mills (D) is termed out of office, the governor’s…

Editor’s Note: The endorsement covered below reflects the opinion of the Maine Republican Party and not the Senate Republican or House Republican caucuses. The Maine Republican Party announced Tuesday that they intend to nominate Robert B. Charles for the position of Maine Attorney General. In Maine, Constitutional Officers — including the Attorney General, Secretary of State, the State Auditor, and State Treasurer — are selected biennially as the start of the first session of the…

A new report from the U.S. Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) has revealed that the U.S. State Department has likely given at least $293 million to the Taliban since President Joe Biden ordered the disastrous — and deadly — withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan in 2021. [RELATED: Collins Probes U.S. National Security Heads Over Biden’s Failed Afghanistan Withdrawal, Terrorism, and Foreign Criminal Operations in Maine…] “In total, State could not demonstrate compliance…

The Biddeford Gazette mistakenly blasted its competitor Monday for allegedly claiming exclusivity in republishing a story from Maine’s largest paper.Randy Seaver, the Gazette’s editor, accused the Biddeford Buzz of stealing, and then claiming originality of, a throwaway column that first ran in the Portland Press Herald.Seaver, meanwhile, had taken the Buzz piece without confirming its ownership and reposted it on his website, bogusly labeling it as a Buzz “exclusive.” Yet he’s accusing Buzz founder Joshua…

The Brunswick Police Department confiscated a firearm on Tuesday from a suspect who allegedly threatened another man and booby-trapped his own apartment with a flash-bang grenade. [RELATED: Bomb Squad Responds After Limington Resident Finds Grenade Near Dumpster…] At approximately 5:21 p.m., the Brunswick Police Department responded to a Federal Street residence after receiving a report that an unnamed male suspect had threatened another man with a firearm. Officers arrived and learned that the suspect had…

Sam Patten is a contributor to the Maine Wire. Is the government about to charge national media personality Tucker Carlson with being a “foreign agent”? What is the Foreign Agent Registration Act of 1938 anyway, and why does the U.S. government fall back on weaponizing it against those it views as politically undesirable? Understanding these questions requires a little background. A decade before the civil rights movement in America reached its tipping point, the federal…

The Pine Tree State’s most famous lifestyle icon says she may be about the only one who can afford a lobster roll this summer.“Lobster rolls are going to be more hideously expensive, like $60 each,” Martha warned. “This winter was cruel to the lobster production, and I just read that lobster rolls are going to be about $50 or $60.”Stewart, who owns a home in Downeast Maine, just opened her first New England restaurant, in…

The Falmouth School Department and Superintendent Steve Nolan are facing a lawsuit for allegedly not providing students the opportunity to recite the Pledge of Allegiance. A high school student and his father filed suit on March 3, 2026, alleging that the school violated a 2011 state statute requiring that students be offered the chance to recite the Pledge at some point during the school day. As reported by the Portland Press Herald, plaintiff Christopher Hickey,…

Congressman Seth Moulton’s (D-MA) illegal immigrant guest at the State of the Union address was revealed to be named in Milford, Massachusetts, police reports involving “sexual assault and juveniles,” according to the Boston Herald. The congressman has praised Gomes da Silva as both “a patriot” and a “great American,” illustrating him as a reminder of what courage should look like. The revelations surfaced after the Boston Herald obtained information via public record request to the…