The president of the Armenian Cultural Association of Maine on Thursday sent a letter to Gov. Janet Mills calling for…
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The owner of a Rockland massage parlor police believe to be tied to organized crime in New York was arrested…
The Maine Secretary of State’s Office pressured Meta, the parent company of Facebook, to remove posts that they flagged as…
The amount of money taxpayers are spending on Suboxone prescriptions for individuals enrolled in MaineCare has surged to $26.2 million…
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), chair of the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee, suggested during a recent interview with Politico that President…
Several members of Maine’s Armenian community are calling for the resignation of the director of the Maine Office of New…
Maine lawmakers may soon be calling on the United States to convene an Article V convention to amend the nation’s…
Travis Mills, a retired United States Army staff sergeant, motivational speaker and author, known for his advocacy for wounded veterans,…
When you run for office without the backing of a political party, it can seem like a steeper climb so…
Governor Janet Mills’ (D) Office of Policy, Innovation and the Future (GOPIF) announced on Friday thirteen new appointees for the…
When homeless encampments flourished throughout Maine’s largest city in 2023 and 2024, Maine’s newspaper reporters were eager to tell the…
Tired of your straw decomposing before you’re halfway through your drink? Sick of only being able to buy LED bulbs?…
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…
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 Guatemalan national, who was previously deported three times from the U.S. and served a nearly six-year prison sentence in…
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…
The Mills administration is seeking an organization to award $300,000 to administer the state’s “social equity program,” a taxpayer-funded affirmative…
The South Portland Police announced late Thursday afternoon that they had arrested 20-year-old Ahmed Basheer Awad, who is suspected of…
Police have identified but are still attempting to locate the individual suspected of shooting another person inside the Maine Mall…
The Maine Legislature’s Judiciary Committee held public hearings on Wednesday regarding two bills that would bring Maine’s public record laws…
A Lynn man admitted in federal court Monday to running a large-scale drug operation that peddled fentanyl-laced pills disguised as…
Springing forward and falling back may soon be a thing of the past in Maine if lawmakers advance either of…
A federal jury in late January indicted three people for their alleged involvement in a massive 400-acre illegal marijuana cultivation…
A medical ambulance plane carrying a young child and her mother crashed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Friday night in a neighborhood…
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) results for 2024 were released on Wednesday and the results are nothing short…
President Donald Trump’s Office of Personnel Management (OPM) offered on Tuesday to give all federal employees nearly eight months of…
An American Airlines flight out of Wichita, Kansas crashed in the Washington D.C. area Wednesday night near the Reagan National…
President Donald Trump’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) rescinded a memorandum freezing some federal grant spending that could have…
The two suspects accused in the fatal shooting of Vermont Border Patrol Agent David Maland, 44, have been identified as…
A week after President Donald Trump signed an executive order designating drug cartels as terrorist organizations, cartel terrorists opened fire…
Editor’s Note: This story has been updated with a statement from Colombian President Gustavo Petro in response to President Trump’s…
President Donald Trump has fulfilled his promise to embrace cryptocurrency, with a Thursday executive order promoting digital assets and prohibiting…
Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey’s (D) office claimed on Friday that its investigation of the numerous hotels converted into illegal immigrant…
Matt Brackley had a sense of foreboding long before the FBI showed up at his home two days after he…
President Donald Trump terminated Dr. Anthony Fauci’s security detail provided by the National Institutes of Health on Thursday, a source…
The superintendent of Lewiston Public Schools issued an announcement on Thursday on the “real fear” among the school community regarding…
The U.S. State Department, under Trump’s chosen Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, announced its new “One Flag” policy, preventing federal…
Some Maine students are granted the ability to attend a public school outside of their home district through what is…
A federal judge has blocked President Donald Trump’s (R) Executive Order redefining birthright citizenship. This comes just days after several…
U.S. Senator from Maine Susan Collins was one of just two Republicans to join Democrats on Thursday in voting against…
The U.S. military will order more than a thousand additional active duty troops to assist with U.S. Customs and Border…
Cumberland County Sheriff’s deputies arrested two men driving an allegedly stolen vehicle on Friday, following a high-speed car chase, crash,…
Lawmakers in Augusta will be considering a proposal to establish “hope accounts” for Maine students who either are home-schooled or…
The State of Maine, as well as the American Civil Liberties Union of Maine (ACLU Maine), have filed lawsuits against…
Xisen Guo, 68, pleaded guilty Jan. 14 to federal drug trafficking charges, becoming the first individual in Maine to do…
President Donald Trump officially withdrew the U.S. from the World Health Organization (WHO) and cut all funding for the international…
No member of Maine’s congressional delegation has been a supporter of President Donald Trump, with the only Republican, Sen. Susan…
The Senate Armed Services Committee voted Monday along party lines to send President Donald Trump’s pick for Defense Secretary, Pete…
Sanford Police announced Tuesday morning that they are conducting a joint operation alongside the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency and the…
At his final pre-inauguration rally on Sunday night, President Trump promised to order the military to begin construction on a…
President Donald Trump is expected to issue hundreds of Executive Orders on his first day in office, including several orders…
Just hours before leaving office, President Joe Biden issued presidential pardons for retired Gen. Mark A. Milley, former Chairman of…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) told House Republicans that if they can’t support raising taxes as outlined in her budget,…
President-elect Donald Trump tapped three actors on Thursday to serve as his special ambassadors to Hollywood, California, to help advise…
A federal judge has denied a Belfast church’s request to halt the sale of a former University of Maine (UMaine)…
Rep. Josh Brecheen (R-Okla.) proposed a bill on Thursday that would prevent people on welfare from using Supplemental Nutrition Assistance…
A high-ranking official at the cabinet-level state agency admitted Wednesday that she intentionally withheld a report from lawmakers last year…
Maine’s chief cannabis regulator said Wednesday that the Office of Cannabis Policy (OCP) is aware that it’s been issuing licenses…
President-elect Donald Trump announced a plan on Tuesday to create a new External Revenue Service (ERS) to collect revenue from…
Gov. Janet Mills (D) has again proposed implementing a tax on streaming service subscriptions in Maine that would raise the…
President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, a decorated combat veteran and former Fox News host, faced…
A Republican Member of Congress wants to get rid of the Income Tax and move the United States to a…
A federal court in Kentucky has blocked the Biden Administration’s effort to redefine the term “sex” in Title IX to…
The United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments Friday morning in the case concerning a potential ban of the popular,…
The Biden administration announced on Friday it will provide protections to hundreds of thousands of El Salvadoran nationals living in…
The Mills Administration warned lawmakers Tuesday that Maine’s looming half-a-billion dollar budget shortfall and a $118 million projected MaineCare deficit…
Oral arguments were heard Tuesday in the cases filed by two Maine Christian schools — St. Dominic Academy in Auburn…
After a year in which many Mainers were burdened with skyrocketing property tax bills, state lawmakers are poised to consider…
The Mills administration managed to botch the rollout of their own new Paid Family and Medical Leave program, mistakenly listing…
A consulting firm based in Massachusetts has been awarded a $300,000 taxpayer-funded contract to advise the Maine Public Utilities Commission…
Going into the first session of the 132nd Legislature, lawmakers have already submitted two bills aimed at rolling back restrictions…
Honduran President Xiomara Castro threatened President-elect Donald Trump during her New Year’s address that if he moves forward with his…
More than 80 cannabis industry stakeholders gathered Friday in Augusta to address the myriad challenges facing Maine’s adult-use and medical…
The Democratic majority on the Joint Rules Committee voted Monday to preserve the controversial practice of “concept drafts,” brushing aside…
Maine’s Secretary of State received more than 170,000 petition signatures on Monday from a conservative group that is looking to…
Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) has officially been reelected as Speaker of the House, allowing lawmakers to move forward with their…
Maine lawmakers are set to receive a 61 percent higher salary than their predecessors when they reconvene next week. This…
The FBI issued an update Thursday on the terrorist attack that took place in the early hours of the day…
Maine’s Democratic leaders held a press conference in Bath on Thursday to tout the beginning of a new program that…
Illegal immigrants from the violent Venezuelan Tren de Aragua (TdA) gang assaulted an El Paso, Texas, border crossing in December,…
Advocates for Voter ID laws in Maine will mark a significant milestone on Monday with the submission of over 170,000…
The South Portland Police Department is investigating a shooting that occurred late Sunday night at an apartment complex. Police responded…
President-elect Donald Trump (R) has endorsed Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) to again serve as Speaker of the House for the…
Senator Rand Paul released his annual Festivus Report highlighting the most egregious examples of government waste on Friday, as Elon…
The shooting of a 34-year-old Virginia man whose body was discovered in Edgecomb on Dec. 3 is tied to an…
The U.S. launched a probe into China’s semiconductor industry on Monday with just weeks remaining in President Joe Biden’s term.…
President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 out of the 40 federal death row inmates in the U.S. on…
Two Californians arrested after allegedly stealing $1,836 worth of products from various stores in Seal Beach, California, went viral on…
President Joe Biden has pulled the plug on his most ambitious pre-election promise to cancel student loan debt for more…
The Rockland Police Department and U.S. Border Patrol were involved in a raid at an Asian massage parlor in Rockland…
The Cape Elizabeth Town Council voted unanimously Monday in favor of covering both the employer and employee contributions to the…
Three Chinese nationals — only one of which was present in the U.S. legally — have been arrested in York…
United States Congressional leaders released another short-term funding agreement Tuesday night that, if passed, would keep the government open through…
The City of Portland’s lobbyist the to Maine Legislature admitted during a Tuesday meeting with the city’s elected officials that…
Update: The Lewiston Police Department released the following Facebook post, including images of the alleged suspects, after this story was…
A total of 30 inmates at Cumberland County Jail have booking records that indicate that they were either arrested by…
Two Iranian men who illegally conspired to arm the Islamic Republic of Iran with U.S. drone technology, culminating in an…