Republican lawmakers in Augusta have introduced a bill that would reverse the changes made by a controversial abortion law signed…
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The owner of a Rockland massage parlor police believe to be tied to organized crime in New York was arrested…
President Donald Trump and Maine Governor Janet Mills traded legal ultimatums on Friday afternoon in a dispute arising from the…
The Maine Secretary of State’s Office pressured Meta, the parent company of Facebook, to remove posts that they flagged as…
The Franklin County Sheriff’s Office arrested two Massachusetts men on Wednesday after they allegedly scammed a Rangeley Plantation woman out…
As Armenian-Americans in Maine voice their outrage with past anti-Armenian advocacy by Gov. Janet Mills’ (D) newly appointed Director of…
Newly obtained emails show a wave of heated, anti-Christian opposition from community members and University of Maine staff after UMaine…
Joanne O’Brien, a far-left Maine MSAD 11 School Board member overseeing public education in Gardiner, has garnered nationwide attention in…
Several members of Maine’s Armenian community are calling for the resignation of the director of the Maine Office of New…
When Heather Sanborn served in the Maine State Legislature not so long ago, she voted in support of granting credits…
A question on whether Maine should require some form of valid identification in order to vote, or voter ID, will…
The Maine State Legislature’s Government Oversight Committee voted unanimously on Friday to investigate a possible conflict of interest between Director…
Frenchville resident and Voice of the People radio host Dan Smeriglio calls himself “an activist first,” so he was ready…
Travis Mills, a retired United States Army staff sergeant, motivational speaker and author, known for his advocacy for wounded veterans,…
A Canadian family that was planning its annual foray to the Maine Moxie Festival is canceling, blaming President Trump. Conrad…
A transgender-identifying male, competing under the name “Katie,” from Cumberland’s Greely High School, came out on top in the girls’…
Gov. Janet Mills announced on Tuesday that Commissioner of the Maine Department of Marine Resources (DMR) Patrick Keliher, who shouted…
As you prepare your annual return, you may already be sensing what a national financial website has found for yet…
When you run for office without the backing of a political party, it can seem like a steeper climb so…
The privileged son of Woody Allen and Mia Farrow came to Maine to blame cable news, Facebook and X for…
The popular old David Letterman gag “Will It Sink or Will It Float?” could use an abandoned Arrowsic boat as…
Governor Janet Mills’ (D) Office of Policy, Innovation and the Future (GOPIF) announced on Friday thirteen new appointees for the…
A Democrat lawmaker has proposed allowing candidates for Attorney General and Secretary of State to participate in the Maine Clean…
Augusta is the worst state capital in the nation, according to a report from the financial outlet WalletHub, based on…
An illegal immigrant is facing deportation after he was caught allegedly scamming an elderly woman in Hermon with an aggressive…
The Trump administration has fired Darcie McElwee, the Biden-appointed U.S. Attorney for the District of Maine, according to the U.S.…
Two Maine Border Patrol stations that cover areas of responsibility of over 100 miles of the U.S.-Canada border have new…
A York woman has proven that even liberals sometimes have a sense of humor. Wendy Werner just became a finalist…
If you thought it couldn’t get any more insane at the Portland Press Herald, consider this: the publisher canceled the…
University of Southern Maine wants to make sure that new students are comfortable in their space or else it might…
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) this week announced the arrest of an illegal Guatemalan national who was released by…
A middle school teacher from Claremont, New Hampshire, was arrested last week for stalking one of her students after she…
President Donald Trump is on track to have all of his Cabinet nominees confirmed despite a slim Republican majority in…
Portland Public Schools will be working with the Portland Education Association, the district’s teachers’ union, to form a task force…
The Lewiston Police Department will hold two information sessions for parents later this month regarding the city’s youth, gun safety…
The push for boilerplate ‘Red Flag’ laws that would give authorities the ability to remove firearms and deny Second Amendment…
Judge Lance Walker issued a federal preliminary injunction on Thursday, halting Maine’s recently established 72-hour waiting period between purchasing and…
Maine’s education system – like that of much of the nation – is in a free-fall, maybe even has already…
Hedge fund tycoon S. Donald Sussman – who once took an ownership stake in the ailing Portland Press Herald -…
Two people are dead after a tractor-trailer crashed through a median and hit two vehicles on the Maine Turnpike in…
The Maine Legislature’s Committee on Veterans and Legal Affairs held a public hearing on Wednesday to consider Rep. Benjamin Hymes’…
Just when you thought all hope for real-time media watchdogging was lost comes a blog devoted to Portland Press Herald…
A man was shot and killed by police in Lincoln after allegedly trying to attack officers with a knife. Officers…
A massive carbon monoxide leak at Building Blocks Daycare in Kittery left seven children hospitalized on Wednesday, along with four…
A shortage of regional emergency dispatchers has triggered a personnel crisis for coordination first responders in at least one county…
A lifetime sex offender registrant from Lewiston was arrested this week after he attempted to meet what he thought was…
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have taken a total of 12 suspected illegal aliens into federal custody at the…
When homeless encampments flourished throughout Maine’s largest city in 2023 and 2024, Maine’s newspaper reporters were eager to tell the…
The Maine Drug Enforcement Agency (MDEA) executed a high-risk search warrant at a Portland apartment building on Tuesday and arrested…
Border Patrol agents recently apprehended five individuals who illegally crossed the U.S.-Canada border near the northernmost Border Patrol station in…
U.S. Senator from Maine Angus King (I) is renewing his push for his “Kids Off Social Media Act,” a bipartisan…
If you think it’s hard running Maine’s biggest embattled newspaper chain, try doing it while you’re also flipping two eggs…
After reaching the next-to-last step in passing a $120 million supplemental spending package, Democratic leaders put off a final vote…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills and her Democratic allies in the Legislature were poised Monday afternoon to once again invoke an…
Fifty years ago, the freshman town manager of Old Orchard Beach angered a state official over the way he was…
Republican U.S. Senator from Maine Susan Collins has stated that she will be voting to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr.…
Three people were arrested are facing a slew of narcotics and other charges after police found methamphetamine, fentanyl, a handgun…
A Maine Democratic lawmaker made a Facebook post for Black History Month celebrating Assata Shakur, an FBI’s most wanted terrorist…
On her second day as Maine’s new public advocate – the official responsible for representing the interests of low-income ratepayers…
A Maine Democratic lawmaker has introduced a bill that would launch a two-year, state-funded pilot program to provide inmates recently…
Portland Police announced Monday morning that they are investigating two deaths in the wooded area behind Hannaford on Riverside Street.…
A traffic stop following a police chase in South Portland early Saturday morning led to the arrest of two Massachusetts…
The head of U.S. Border Patrol operations in Maine’s Houlton sector, which covers encompasses the entire state, coastline and U.S.-Canada…
A group of Republican lawmakers are looking to end the controversial practice of same-day voter registration in Maine. Rep. Barbara…
As Maine faces an impending half-billion dollar budget shortfall, and Gov. Janet Mills (D-Maine) considers a flurry of tax increases…
Maine lawmakers are slated to consider creating protections for workers that will limit how American businesses can use emerging monitoring…
The annual tradition of visiting an auto mechanic to get an inspection sticker could come to an end if a…
A well-connected New England media analyst says he’s “heard from serious people that substantial cuts may be coming” to the…
A Maine man who wanted to be buried in the town cemetery but was told there was no more room…
A Guatemalan national, who was previously deported three times from the U.S. and served a nearly six-year prison sentence in…
A wealthy Maine philanthropist who quietly used his access and money to promote social good is being remembered by the…
The Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) told 8 Investigates that a records request aimed at exposing the…
Democratic Maine Rep. Jared Golden urged his party to pump the brakes on their reflexive, hair-trigger responses to Republican advances…
In the face of a new executive order issued by President Donald Trump on Wednesday imposing significant penalties on schools…
Over a year after the tragic mass shooting that rocked Lewiston in October 2023, scrutiny has emerged over how one…
A man previously arrested for a stabbing in Portland is now being accused of trying to grab, kiss and give…
The Mills administration is seeking an organization to award $300,000 to administer the state’s “social equity program,” a taxpayer-funded affirmative…
The Portland International Jetport has been ordered to stop cutting trees near the runways until authorities can determine whether the…
The South Portland Police announced late Thursday afternoon that they had arrested 20-year-old Ahmed Basheer Awad, who is suspected of…
An automotive trade association based out of Washington D.C. has sued Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey over the enforcement of…
The Kennebec County Democratic Committee pulled its support from a planned protest outside the State Capitol in Augusta on Wednesday…
A Maine-based nonprofit funded entirely by U.S. taxpayers is using its social media presence to teach illegal aliens tips and…
Maine may gradually increase its current limit on charter schools if lawmakers pass a Republican-led bill introduced in late January.…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills’ (D) Office of Policy Innovation and the Future (GOPIF) is partnering with a Brunswick-based nonprofit organization…
The Maine Trust for Local News, already reeling from a string of executive resignations, is now losing the publisher of…
The Trump Administration’s rapid moves to impose fiscal restraint on the sprawling federal bureaucracy will hit at least one governmental…
Police have identified but are still attempting to locate the individual suspected of shooting another person inside the Maine Mall…
Lift tickets are already expensive, but they just got a lot more so for a man who thought he was…
The Maine Legislature’s Judiciary Committee held public hearings on Wednesday regarding two bills that would bring Maine’s public record laws…
Local officials in Bangor, Lewiston, and Portland were reluctant to say whether they would comply with deportations promised by President…
Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey on Wednesday joined with the attorneys general of 14 other states in issuing a statement…
Springing forward and falling back may soon be a thing of the past in Maine if lawmakers advance either of…
U.S. Border Patrol agents in Caswell recently located and captured two Romanian nationals who illegally crossed the northern border into…
A Maine Republican lawmaker has introduced a bill that would classify political affiliation as a protected class under the Maine…
A contractor who’s suffered lengthy zoning delays on a $15 million Portland-area project is now wondering whether it’ll ever get…
A Maine State Police K9, Preacher, was killed in the line of duty on Monday night during a Portage Lake…
A bipartisan group of five New Hampshire state legislators put forward a bill calling on the federal government to declare…
A group of Democrats in the legislature, led by Rep. David Sinclair (D-Bath), put forward a radical criminal justice reform…
Speaker of the House Ryan Fecteau (D-Biddeford) and Senate President Mathea Elizabeth Larson Daughtry (D-Cumberland) will name members of special…
A bill introduced in the Maine Legislature by a Democratic lawmaker seeks to help alleviate the caseload on the state’s…