Rent control could be coming to Brunswick if Ramona Thieme, the only candidate across the state currently running to receive an endorsement from the Maine Democratic Socialists of America (MDSA), wins the race for the town’s District 6 Town Council seat. [RELATED: Portland City Official Rebuts Press Herald, Claims City is Enforcing Rent Control Ordinances…] “I think that a big part of the solution, ideally, would be a form of rent control, something tailored to…

Kennebunk Select Board Vice Chair Leslie Trentalange issued a non-apology during Tuesday’s board meeting after she claimed that parents concerned about transgender-identifying males in girls’ sports and restrooms had pedophilic tendencies. [RELATED: Kennebunk Select Board Member Suggested Parents Who Don’t Want Trans-Males Competing in Girls’ Sports Have “Pedophilic Tendencies”…] “I made a statement that one could say pushed some boundaries at the recent school board meeting. If there are folks in the marginalized queer community…

This November’s question 1 has quickly become a polarizing topic in the State of Maine, with those on either side of the issue presenting seemingly disparate pictures of what the proposed legislation would actually do if approved by voters at the ballot box. While supporters argue that the law would help to secure Maine’s elections by requiring voters to show identification when casting their ballots, opponents frame the bill as an existential attack on the…

A Greene man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to illegally trafficking in whale and bird parts between June 2023 and March 2024, including the sale of whale bones and hawk skeletons. [RELATED: New York Man Sentenced to Ten Years in Prison For Trafficking Drugs to Midcoast Maine…] Sergey Bachkovsky of Greene imported the contraband animal parts from Eastern Europe and sold them online across the country. The items included sperm whale teeth, aquatic mammal bones, including…

Auburn police arrested a 21-year-old alleged domestic abuser on Wednesday, reportedly responsible for two separate shooting incidents within the span of a week. [RELATED: Auburn Man Sentenced to 56 Years for Kidnapping, Raping, and Attempting to Murder a 13-Year-Old Girl in 2022…] At about 8:43 p.m. on September 10, Auburn police received multiple reports of gunfire coming from the area of Willow and Hampshire Streets. Police responded and interviewed witnesses, but at the time, they…

A native and resident of Lubec, Maine was the oldest to die in the 9/11 terrorist attacks that killed 2,983 souls just a year short of a quarter-century ago. Robert Grant Norton, 85, was flying with his wife Jacqueline on their way to California for a wedding. The World War II Navy veteran from Lubec, Maine, the small fishing community on the eastern tip of Washington County that borders Canada, never made it to 86.…

A Thomaston man was arrested on Monday after he allegedly tried to run over border patrol agents while they were taking suspected illegal immigrants into custody in Washington, Maine, following a truck crash. [RELATED: Passenger of Illegal Alien Driver who Killed a Lewiston Woman was Also an Illegal, Had Maine Drivers’ License…] Deputies from the Knox County Sheriff’s Department arrested Olivia G. Wilkins, 24, of Thomaston, also known as Stevie Wilkins, on Tuesday after he…

Augusta Republicans issued a statement Monday morning in response to the news that ModivCare—the out-of-state company awarded a multi-million dollar contract by the State of Maine to provide transportation to MaineCare patients—filed for voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy last week. In addition to raising concerns about the quality of services provided by ModivCare, Senate Republicans, they urged state officials to reconsider their plans to expand their partnership with the company. Although ModivCare’s statewide contract is currently…

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) revealed that not one, but two illegal aliens from Angola killed pedestrians in Maine last week on two consecutive days. [RELATED: Passenger of Illegal Alien Driver who Killed a Lewiston Woman was Also an Illegal, Had Maine Drivers’ License…] “It seems to be almost a daily occurrence where an illegal alien driving kills innocent Americans,” said Assistant DHS Secretary Tricia McLaughlin. “All of these deaths are preventable because these…

The FBI arrested a Chinese national on Tuesday night as part of a sting operation after he allegedly tried to solicit sex from an undercover agent he believed to be a 15-year-old girl. [RELATED: New Hampshire School Teacher Arrested in Sting Operation After Soliciting Sex from a 12-Year-Old While on the Job…] Qichen Yuan, 31, a Chinese national living legally in Boston, allegedly responded on Saturday to a listing posted on a website commonly used…

One candidate for governor of Maine was recently in the peculiar position of having to ask another about the role Ranked Choice Voting [RCV] will play in next year’s election for the state’s chief executive. It was peculiar for two reasons: first, the person charged with administering Maine’s elections, Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, is herself a candidate for the Democrat nomination. And second, the person asking – fellow gubernatorial candidate and state senator Jim…

Federal authorities have moved further to reverse course on the Biden administration’s embrace of offshore wind power infrastructure in recent days, earning praise from regional fishermen. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has taken two key actions in the past week in pursuit of bringing an end to offshore wind development throughout the country, including in the Gulf of Maine. At the end of July, BOEM said that it would be rescinding all designated…

Mainers are facing the highest year-over-year energy rate increase in the nation, surging by over a third, according to a Monday report from Axios, as average energy costs skyrocketing by over 36 percent in just one year. [RELATED: House Republicans Decry Recent Finding in National Survey that Maine’s Infrastructure Ranks Dead Last…] Maine’s average residential energy costs increased by a staggering 36.3 percent in just one year, from May 2024 to May 2025. Ratepayers in…

The group behind last fall’s ballot initiative placing new limits on Super PAC contributions has appealed a federal judge’s ruling that voided the law early last month. In mid-July, U.S. Magistrate Judge Karen Wolf permanently enjoined the State of Maine from enforcing the law limiting Super PAC contributions as approved by voters by referendum last November. According to Judge Wolf, the Supreme Court’s fifteen-year-old ruling in Citizens United “forecloses limits on contribution to independent expenditure…

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) announced a contract awarded to Bath Iron Works on Thursday for the construction of a new DDG-51 Arleigh Burke-class destroyer. [RELATED: Dem Senate Candidate Jordan Wood’s “Courage” on Full Display as Staffer Bars Maine Wire Reporter from “Public” Town Hall…] “This award is a testament to the highly skilled and hard-working men and women of BIW and once again shows that ‘Bath Built is Best Built,'” said Collins. “This destroyer will…