Two Portland City Councilors are seeking to put a 180-day prohibition on the approval of new hotel projects in the…
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Vice Presidential nominee Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) campaigned in New Hampshire on Sunday, two days before the election, after recent…
In business since the 1950s, Cookie Jar Bakery in Cape Elizabeth is now fighting to retain use of the four…
David M. Rollins, the former Democratic mayor of Augusta and a longtime city councilor, is denying allegations leveled by a…
John L. Martin, the longtime Democratic politician and master State House strategist, was found unconscious Sunday morning in his driveway…
The Sudanese refugee who in July was arrested for allegedly threatening to shoot up a fried chicken restaurant in Portland…
Kiernan Majerus-Collins, a former member of the Maine Democratic Party State Committee for Androscoggin County, called Republican voters the “most…
The owner of a Boston-based pizzeria chain with locations throughout Massachusetts was sentenced last week to more than eight years…
An arrest has been made in connection to Monday afternoon shooting in Portland’s Bayside neighborhood that left one man dead,…
Former Republican President Donald Trump has a slight lead over Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris in New Hampshire as Election…
Last month the Maine Department of Education (Maine DOE) launched a first-in-the-nation project aimed at bringing collections of children’s picture…
The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) on Tuesday will hold the first competitive auction for roughly 850,000 acres…
Concerns over the state of the economy loom large in Mainers’ minds, and there are significant partisan gaps when it…
Maine’s Committee on Judicial Conduct has reportedly said that Justice Catherine Connors of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court violated the…
Two men, including one Chinese national, were arrested in Farmington on Monday after police discovered 115 pounds of marijuana in…
A Lewiston man known as “Biggie” was arrested on Wednesday and is now facing federal drug and firearm charges after…
The Maine Commission on Public Defense Services, formerly known as the Maine Commission on Indigent Legal Services, is seeking to…
Maine’s civic health currently is strong, according to Maine’s first Civic Health Report from Colby College’s Goldfarb Center for Public Affairs, Public…
Four people were arrested on drug trafficking charges after authorities found over $200,000 worth of fentanyl and methamphetamine inside of…
The Franklin County Sheriff’s office made back-to-back traffic stops last Wednesday and Thursday that led to involvement from U.S. Customs…
The number of apprehensions of migrants entering the U.S. illegally across the northern border in Maine’s Houlton Sector reached a…
Conflict of Interest: “a situation in which a person is in a position to derive personal benefit from actions or…
Maine voters may be some of the nation’s most powerful in the upcoming election, according to a recent report published…
Portland Mayor Mark Dion on Monday offered an apology to the city’s Jewish community for his vote last month in…
South Portland voters will be asked to make their voices heard on several questions this November, including a proposed charter…
The Portland City Council on Monday rejected a resolution proposed by Mayor Mark Dion that was aimed at reducing the…
Federal officials have rejected Maine’s application for $456 million to construct an offshore wind port at Sears Island. According to…
Monthly abortion numbers grew dramatically in the first six months of 2024, according to a report released Tuesday by the…
Two people are dead and several others were hospitalized from carbon monoxide poisoning at a home in Freedom that was…
Residents of Portland will be asked to weigh in on two ballot questions when they go to the polls in…
The U.S. Attorney’s Office in New Hampshire indicted ten people last Wednesday in connection with a Lawrence and Methuen, Massachusetts-based…
The New Hampshire State Police arrested four people in the state’s capital last Monday, busting a Concord-based drug distribution ring.…
A man previously convicted of felonies in multiple states was arrested on drug trafficking and firearm charges on Friday after…
A political action committee (PAC) affiliated with the progressive Maine People’s Alliance has made a large independent expenditure in support…
A Portland man was arrested Sunday evening after allegedly threatening someone with a firearm and shooting into the ground, Portland…
During their meeting on Monday, the Portland City Council will be considering a resolution that would call upon the City…
Planned Parenthood of Northern New England’s Maine-based Political Action Committee (PAC) this week spent $90,000 on online advertising spread across…
A Hermon resident was arrested on Wednesday after allegedly fleeing the scene of an accident and leading police on a…
As November 5 quickly approaches, Mainers are preparing to make their voices heard at the ballot box in a number…
An investigation into suspected drug activity at a residence in Auburn led to the seizure of a significant amount of…
Gray, Maine issued an indefinite boil water advisory on Wednesday for anyone using the town’s public water supply, warning of…
Ann Cook, a Maine public school teacher who in 2022 was recorded going on a bizarre racially-charged political rant in…
A former Portland educator has been sentenced to three and a half years in federal prison for possessing child sexual…
Portland Police announced on Wednesday that they have arrested a 19-year-old man in connection to an early Tuesday morning shooting…
Families of the people killed in the October 25 Lewiston mass shooting filed a statement Tuesday threatening to sue the…
Two brothers are facing drug trafficking charges after police raided their apartment in Lewiston, discovering a cocaine, fentanyl, guns and…
The principal of a public high school in South Paris forwarded a recruitment email from the Maine Democratic Party to…
The Permanent Commission on the Status of Racial, Indigenous & Tribal Populations (PCRITP), Maine’s taxpayer-funded racial equity board, has hired…
Gov. Janet Mills (D-Maine) has the third-worst fiscal policy of any governor in the country, according to a report from…
The Maine Immigrants’ Rights Coalition (MIRC), a Portland-based immigrant advocacy nonprofit organization, is looking to target recently naturalized “New Mainers”…
A juvenile is in stable condition after being shot early Tuesday morning at an apartment building on Forest Avenue in…
Maine’s Congressional delegation announced Friday that two commercial fishing associations have been awarded a significant amount of federal grant funding…
Portland Police responded late Sunday night to reports of gunfire on Eleanor Street. At about 11:00 p.m. on Sunday, Oct.…
At a workshop on Tuesday the South Portland City Council will discuss a proposed ordinance that would eventually prohibit the…
A search of a Lewiston apartment by police and agents with the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency (MDEA) last week resulted…
Maine’s Attorney General and Secretary of State sent a letter to the Mane Wire on Friday asking the investigative news…
Just one day after the Maine Wire dropped a bombshell report on whistleblower records indicating multiple noncitizens have illegally voted…
A temporary injunction halting enforcement of a Maine law blocking foreign spending in local and state elections and referendums was…
A Cornville man will serve two years in prison after pleading guilty to multiple counts of sexual assault, following an…
A Guatemalan national living illegally in the U.S. since at least 2011 has been arrested by U.S. Immigrations and Customs…
At their meeting next Tuesday, the Sanford City Council will consider adopting a resolution seeking to reform the city’s state-licensed…
The ex-wife of State Rep. Holly Eaton (D-Deer Isle) allegedly stole a political sign supporting the independent candidate trying to…
The Maine Department of Education (Maine DOE) entered into a “partnership” with the nonprofit Maine Trust for Local News in…
The New England Fishermen’s Stewardship Association (NEFSA) will be sending Gov. Janet Mills a petition with over 2,500 signatures urging…
Law enforcement seized three firearms from an Ogunquit inn housing 20 noncitizen “scholar” visa holders after a report of shots…
The Maine State Board of Nursing suspended the medical license of nurse Matthew Clifford Field after he allegedly sexually harassed…
A Peru, Maine woman has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for drug trafficking charges after selling more…
At the close of a Monday evening forum between Maine’s Second Congressional District candidates Congressman Jared Golden (D) and State…
Police are actively looking for a suspect believed to be responsible for a stabbing at a dollar store in Sanford’s…
On the anniversary of terrorist attack against Israel carried out by the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023,…
The number of veterans experiencing homelessness in Maine nearly quadrupled from 2021 to 2022, and remains at levels higher than…
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced in September that it would be reducing certain Medicare prescription drug…
The U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) on Friday announced that they have arrested 40 fugitives wanted for various violent offenses as…
Add Bath to the long and growing list of Maine towns set to see property taxes head higher. Residents of…
The Maine Labor Climate Council, a purported coalition of labor unions pushing for offshore wind development in the Gulf of…
Maine cities and towns — but not all of them — have already begun voting in the 2024 elections, with…
A political action committee (PAC) founded by the Maine Education Association this week spent $75,500 on digital advertisements in support…
An Ellsworth man on federal supervised release for a previous conviction for possessing child pornography this week was sentenced to…
The National Border Patrol Union endorsed State Rep. Austin Theriault (R-Fort Kent) Thursday in his bid to unseat incumbent Democrat…
The Gorham Police Department is warning residents to lock their cars after responding to more than 20 motor vehicle burglaries…
The Maine State Library is spending nearly $13,000 in taxpayer funds to create a toolkit meant for “caregivers” to teach…
A Lewiston man was sentenced to 35 years in prison on Tuesday in a Portland federal court for sexually exploiting…
The State of Maine is projected to face a massive shortfall of nearly $1 billion for fiscal years 2026 and…
Electric Vehicles (EVs) have become a flashpoint in Maine politics over the past year thanks to an effort by the…
The Lewiston Police Department on Tuesday announced that they had executed two search warrants, resulting in the seizure of a…
The Rockland Police Department announced on Tuesday that their officers will now be equipped with a new Kevlar cord restraint…
According to the Public Access Ombudsman’s 2023 Report, state-level agencies received nearly three thousand requests under the Maine’s Freedom of…
A Lewiston man pleaded guilty on Friday in a Bangor federal court to filing a fraudulent application to obtain an…
What started in 2008 as a small school for orphaned refugees living in Uganda is an operation that now provides…
A member of a Portland Public Schools committee charged with redrawing the school district’s attendance boundaries in order to address…
A longtime Democratic politician and government employee has been hired in a $121,000-a-year position at the Maine Department of Education…
U.S. Sen. Angus King (I-Maine), who has for years fashioned himself as an “independent” or a “moderate” despite backing exclusively…
A homeless man who earlier this year was charged with assaulting people with a machete, and who a month ago…
York County District Attorney Kathryn Slattery this week touted the sentencing of a Maine man convicted of manslaughter in connection…
An investigation into a string of over 20 package thefts from a Westbrook senior citizen living facility has led to…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D), who during the COVID-19 pandemic implemented stringent prohibitions on public gatherings and stay-at-home directives, will…
The Hampden Police Department in Massachusetts busted a large-scale illegal marijuana growing operation on Tuesday. Hampden Police Department along with…
Lewiston was rocked by a series of violent incidents Tuesday evening, with police responding to two separate reports of gunfire…
While the mayor of South Portland recently recommended that elderly residents reverse mortgage their homes to handle a growing property…
A Lisbon man with multiple previous state convictions for possessing and distributing child pornography pleaded guilty this week to a…