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A Brownfield man was arrested on multiple drug and firearm charges following a raid conducted by the Maine Drug Enforcement…
A traffic stop in Lewiston shortly after midnight on Thursday led to the arrest of two men and the seizure…
Amid discussion regarding recent property tax hikes at a South Portland City Council meeting last month, Mayor Misha Pride suggested…
Six police departments across Maine have been awarded a total of just over $2 million in federal grants to support…
Mainers appear largely divided over the five ballot questions set to go before voters this November, according to a new…
Sanford city officials and members of the city council were in agreement during their Tuesday meeting on the need to…
During a town hall event Monday evening in Portland, Somali-American Maine State Rep. Deqa Dhalac (D-South Portland) claimed that immigrants’…
A motor vehicle crash on Main Street in Westbrook on Tuesday that left one car flipped on its side led…
A Portland man who in 2020 sold fentanyl-laced fake pills that killed a York County woman has been sentenced to…
The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Maine CDC) announced on Tuesday that a Maine resident has tested positive…
Maine’s Congressional delegation sent a joint letter to Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro urging cooperation on the cleanup effort at…
At a Portland town hall event Monday evening hosted by a collection of progressive nonprofit organizations, a lawyer from the…
Bangor Animal Control is continuing to investigate the mysterious disappearance of cats in Bangor’s Fairmount neighborhood, with officials saying multiple…
On Tuesday the Sanford City Council is expected to discuss a “public health crisis” caused by a large number of…
The City of Portland is now seeking applications to fill the vacancy at the top of the city’s Justice, Diversity,…
Just ahead of the anniversary of the tragic mass shootings in Lewiston on Oct. 25, 2023, U.S. Senator from Maine…
A Salvadoran national living illegally in the U.S. was arrested last week on Nantucket Island by federal immigration officers after…
The Bangor refugee resettlement office run by Catholic Charities Maine is planning to move 150 migrants into cities and towns…
The New York man charged in April with criminal threatening and aggravated sex trafficking for running his “massage parlor” as…
A joint operation by the Portland Police Department and Maine Drug Enforcement Agency (MDEA) led to the arrest of a…
A Bangor-based homelessness fundraising organization is propagating educational materials aimed at helping homeless individuals avoid arrest for a variety of…
On Tuesday the Portland City Council’s Health and Human Services and Public Safety Committee voted to advance a proposal from…
The owner of multiple massage parlors throughout Maine has been arrested in connection to a police investigation into alleged sex…
During a Tuesday meeting of the Portland City Council’s Health and Human Services and Public Safety Committee, City Councilor Kate…
A University of Maine employee who worked at the school for nearly four decades with a “completely unblemished” record was…
Maine Governor Janet Mills’ (D) Office of Policy Innovation and the Future (GOPIF) has granted $15,000 to a Portland-based consultant…
In the span of less than two weeks since Lewiston city officials and the Androscoggin County district attorney announced their plans to…
Settlement funds received by the City of Portland from a nationwide lawsuit against several opioid manufacturers and distributors could go…
A new program aimed at protecting elderly Mainers from scams by attaching informational brochures to prescription bags at Hannaford pharmacies…
The Mills Administration and the Maine Service Employees Association (MSEA-SEIU Local 1989) have reached an agreement Thursday to resolve a…
On Wednesday, the Portland City Council voted unanimously to pass a resolution calling upon City Manager Danielle West to divest…
A traffic stop early Tuesday morning in Lewiston led to the arrest of a felon out on bail after a…
U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced on Tuesday the arrest of an illegal alien charged with five counts of…
Last week, the Maine Department of Labor (MDOL) unveiled an updated set of regulations for the state’s new Paid Family…
A Dixfield man has been arrested after authorities found a 9-month-old baby girl suffering from an opioid overdose at a…
Long Creek Youth Development Center in South Portland, Maine’s only juvenile correctional facility, will be offering its high school-aged incarcerated…
At a special meeting this Wednesday, the Portland City Council will consider adopting a resolution to divest the city from…
Maine’s ongoing effort to resettle non-citizens will get a $5.4 million boost thanks to a Biden-Harris Administration grant that will…
A fugitive wanted in Maine for multiple firearms violations was apprehended by the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) in Auburn on…
Several Aroostock County Republicans hosted a gathering in Madawaska Wednesday night to discuss concerns over residents’ rising property taxes and…
The search of a residence in Palmyra by the Somerset County Sheriff’s Office on Thursday led to the seizure of…
Planned Parenthood of Northern New England (PPNNE), the largest provider of abortions in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont announced last…
Lewiston city officials, the chief of police and the Androscoggin County district attorney held a press conference on Thursday alongside…
Mainers statewide have been experiencing sticker shock when reviewing their property tax bills for the upcoming fiscal year, and Republican…
Tensions ran high at Portland City Hall on Monday evening as the city’s “justice, diversity, equity and inclusion” (JDEI) office…
Former House Democratic Leader Maureen Terry of Gorham scoffed at then-Rep. Billy Bob Faulkingham (R-Winter Harbor) for proposing a 2021…
A homeless man who in January was charged with assaulting people with a machete outside a Portland apartment complex was…
Firefighters in Lewiston battled a fire that broke out Wednesday afternoon at a College Street home that has been subject…
The Yarmouth Police Department was dealt an unexpected surprise on Monday when resident came to them seeking help disposing of…
Rockland Police announced on Tuesday that they have arrested a man suspected of burglarizing a museum and stealing tools from…
In response to a series of shooting incidents in recent weeks, the Lewiston Police Department, alongside city officials and the…
Mainers statewide have been experiencing sticker shock when reviewing their property tax bills for the upcoming fiscal year. From higher…
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. narrowly met the Maine Secretary of State’s deadline to withdraw his name from…
The director of Maine’s Bureau of General Services has resigned his position with the state less then two months after…
Following a surge in the amount of money spent under the municipal welfare program known as General Assistance, the Mills…
On Friday, the Maine Wire reported on a leaked ICE memo that listed hundreds of jails and police agencies around…
Just a day after Republican candidate for Maine’s 2nd Congressional District Austin Theriault announced that he would be participating in…
A homeless man is facing robbery and criminal threatening charges after allegedly entering a U.S. Post Office in Portland and…
At a “Year of the Gen Z Vote” panel discussion during last week’s Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago, a…
More than 40 percent of Mainers feel that the state is currently on the wrong track — nearly 10 percent…
A back-to-school event with over 300 attendees at Lewiston’s McGraw Park on Friday was interrupted by a teen male firing…
Mainers are divided over the Legislature’s decision to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact — as well as with…
New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella has filed Civil Rights Act complaint against a man accused of vandalizing a Jewish…
The Portland public schools are aiming to ensure that all students have equal outcomes and equal experiences, according to a…
Maine’s Democratic members of Congress, Jared Golden and Chellie Pingree, supported a $500,000 taxpayer-funded “environmental justice” grant for a left-wing…
Two county jails in Maine have been designated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as being in “limited cooperation”…
Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows (D) has ruled that independent presidential candidate Cornel West will be allowed to appear…
A man who led police on multiple chases through the Portland area late last year has pleaded guilty to the…
The Independent Commission to Investigate the Facts of the Tragedy in Lewiston on Tuesday released its final report on the…
Sens. Susan Collins (R) and Angus King (I) have signed onto a letter urging the Acting Secretary of the Department…
A 38-year-old Auburn man who is the subject of a long-term drug trafficking investigation related to the sale of marijuana…
A juvenile male was injured in a drive-by shooting that occurred early Monday morning near the intersection of Pine and…
A man is facing multiple assault charges after being arrested in connection to a baseball attack outside Portland’s Homeless Services…
The Maine Department of Labor (MDOL) released the state’s July employment numbers Friday, revealing that while Maine’s unemployment rate is…
Two days after Christmas 2023, the bodies of Jean C. Robinson, 76, and her daughter, Allison “Joy” Cumming, 53, were…
The Sagadahoc County Democrats have decked their Topsham HQ out with signs in support of Democratic Sheriff Joel Merry for…
The price Mainers will pay for tobacco-free nicotine pouches, a popular alternative to chewing tobacco and cigarettes, has begun to…
Maine’s Public Utilities Commission (PUC) voted unanimously on Tuesday to reject a proposal from Versant Power that would have helped…
The Maine Supreme Court has dismissed a lawsuit against Gov. Janet Mills (D), Senate President Troy Jackson (D-Aroostook), and Speaker…
At a Sanford City Council meeting last week, during which it was decided that the city’s three polling locations would…
The City of Portland is expected to reopen discussion of implementing a Payment-in-Lieu of Taxes (PILOT) program in order to…
A lawsuit filed in federal court on Thursday challenges the constitutionality of Maine’s Interest on Lawyers’ Trust Accounts (IOLTA) program,…
A section of Route 1 in Mid-Coast region was shut down Friday after a tractor trailer truck carrying a wind…
After more than a week of investigating without an arrest, Portland Police announced on Friday that they have arrested a…
A registrant in the Maine Sex Offender Registry was arrested on Thursday after a juvenile victim and witnesses came forward…
A man found guilty of committing a stabbing attack in a Westbrook parking lot this January has been received a…
Just 90 days away from the presidential election this November, the City of Sanford is moving forward with a proposal…
The University of New England (UNE) announced on Wednesday that it is launching four new online courses this fall for…
A man wanted for a felony domestic violence charge was found on Tuesday by Auburn Police in possession of a…
Wells voters overwhelmingly approved an ordinance Tuesday establishing a temporary moratorium on large-scale residential developments. According to the unofficial results…
Maine’s Department of Economic and Community Development (DECD) is looking to spend an estimated $2.7 million in grants on efforts…
Maine has the seventeenth most underprivileged children nationwide with the sixth worst health, according to a recent study by WalletHub.…
While no arrests have yet been made, Portland Police announced on Tuesday that the investigation into last week’s fatal shooting…
A Portland man was struck and killed by a train near Morrill’s Corner on Tuesday evening, according to the Portland…
Following the cringe-worthy fundraising Zoom call from “White Dudes for Harris,” Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign has unveiled its newest…
An investigation launched early last year into a fraudulent vehicle purchasing scheme that targeted online sellers has concluded with the…
A declassified report by the Canadian National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP) revealed earlier this year extensive foreign…
The Maine Secretary of State revealed Monday the final design for the proposed state flag upon which voters will be…
Lewiston City Council President Scott Harriman last week weighed in on a debate surrounding the installing of public toilets in…