Actor John Travolta, superstar scientology cultist and sometime summer resident of Maine, is struggling to sell is gorgeous Maine mansion, located on 48 acres of Islesboro Island’s oceanfront. “This is a one of a kind property,” the listing agent says of the 20-bed, 8-bath lux manse measuring 10,830 square feet. According to the New York Post, the 68-year-old Grease star redesigned the home in 1991 along with his then-bride Kelly Preston, who died in 2020.…

Question are swirling among Maine Republican insiders following the transfer of more than $86,000 from a committee aimed at helping elect Republicans to the House of Representatives to the personal leadership PAC of a former House Minority Leader. The House Republican Fund transferred $86,567.22 to One Maine, a committee run by former Rep. Kathleen Dillingham (R-Oxford), on November 17, 2022. That big transfer raises two question. First, why wasn’t that money spent during an election…

Congress is back in Washington, D.C., and so it’s back to business as usual. On Wednesday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) called for legal amnesty for every illegal alien present in the United States, including a pathway to citizenship. “Now more than ever, we’re short of workers,” he said. “We have a population that’s not reproducing on its own with the same level that it used to. The only way we’re going to have…

Gray-New Gloucester Middle School Teacher Ann Cook’s politically charged conversation with an 8th grader, first reported on by The Maine Wire, was unacceptable and unkind, MSAD 15 School Board Chairman Sam Pfeifle said Monday. “I’m disappointed,” Pfeifle said in a phone interview. “It’s clearly unacceptable for a teacher to be saying those things to students in their classroom. It doesn’t follow our controversial topics policy. I don’t think it follows our mission. I don’t think…

The Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) has implemented a new rule to detect and deter EBT card trafficking. Under the new requirement, the Department’s Office for Family Independence (OFI) can withhold a fifth EBT replacement card within a 12 month period until the client makes contact with the Department and provides an explanation for the volume of requested cards. “This is another common sense measure to protect benefits for those who are…

You Can Come Out Now! Today marks the end of Kaci Hickox’s incubation period!  Hickox has faced numerous threats of quarantine over the 21 days since she returned from treating Ebola victims in West Africa.  The outspoken nurse has been a fierce critic against quarantines for individuals not showing symptoms of the deadly disease.  After a brief standoff with the governor, Hickox was ordered by a court to undergo continued monitoring for the remainder of the…

Conservative muckraker James O’Keefe has struck again, this time in North Carolina, where State House Speaker Thom Tillis, a Republican, is up against incumbent U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan, a Democrat. In O’Keefe’s undercover video, multiple Democratic campaign workers affiliated with Hagan are willing to help non-citizens vote — a potential felony under North Carolina law.

They may be on welfare, but that doesn’t stop them from vacationing. According to an analysis of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, Maine welfare cash has been spent in every other state in the Union, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Department of Health and Human Services records related to TANF, a program intended to provide cash assistance to low-income families, was obtained by The Maine Wire pursuant to a Freedom…

Everyone believes that mainstream media outlets have a liberal bias, right? Well, a UCLA professor says he has actually proven it. Furthermore, while some conservative outlets may lean to the right, their bias is less than the liberal bias of most mainstream outlets. These are the results determined by Dr. Tim Groseclose, a professor of political science and economics at UCLA who has spent years constructing precise, quantitative measures of the slants of media outlets.…

New data released on MaineOpenGov.org shows MaineHousing payrolls jumped nearly $1 million between 2010 and 2011 In the final year of former director Dale McCormick’s leadership at MaineHousing, salaries and benefits at the agency went up eight percent, with the annual payroll topping $10 million for the first time. The payroll data, which is posted online at MaineOpenGov.org, a website of The Maine Heritage Policy Center, shows that in 2010 MaineHousing paid out a total…

TRENTON, Maine – An early morning fire heavily damaged the Open Hearth Inn in Trenton on Saturday, March 28, 2026. According to officials, the Trenton Fire Department responded at approximately 2:55 a.m. to a reported structure fire at the inn, located at 1147 Bar Harbor Road. When crews arrived, they encountered a well-involved fire that had spread rapidly throughout the building. Two individuals were inside the inn at the time of the fire and were…

The Cumberland County Sheriff’s Department was forced to respond on Friday to yet another hoax call reporting a threat against a school, prompting a lockdown at the Lake Region High School. [RELATED: Hoaxer Reporting Shooting at Bonny Eagle High School Leads to Lockdown and Police Response…] At approximately 7:30 a.m., Cumberland deputies responded after a call was placed to the Lake Region High School in Naples reporting that someone in the parking lot was armed…

State lawmakers have advanced a bill giving Mainers the “right to repair” their electronic devices, but the House and Senate are in disagreement over which version of the bill to support. LD 1908, a bipartisan bill presented by Sen. Mike Tipping (D-Penobscot), looks to create an electronic “right to repair” law in the state, requiring that original equipment manufacturers make it possible for individuals and unauthorized repair shops to fix their products. Earlier this year,…

It’s apparently news to Maine’s largest newspaper that police investigators often need secrecy to do their jobs.The Portland Press Herald with an assist from Cumberland County’s top prosecutor published a takeout reading like a Watergate journalistic exercise.“Portland police are using an encrypted app with disappearing messages for stakeouts, investigations,” read the newspaper’s breathless headline.Knock me over with a feather.Cops using a secret messaging app to keep you safe from harm.What should they do – publish…

A Brunswick woman who had been missing two months was found dead Saturday following an exhaustive search, authorities said.Rebecca Dorr, 56, disappeared in late January, the second time she recently walked away from her house.Brunswick Police, Maine Warden Service, Maine Search and Rescue Dogs and the Maine Association for Search and Rescue were looking for her. Dorr’s body was located Saturday morning in a wooded area near a network of trails, according to WMTW-TV.Mark Latti…