Maine’s Democratic members of Congress, Jared Golden and Chellie Pingree, supported a $500,000 taxpayer-funded “environmental justice” grant for a left-wing…
Shocking audio obtained by The Maine Wire reveals a Maine public school teacher subjecting a student to a racially charged…
Democrat Rep. Jared Golden (ME-CD2) urged U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Jamieson Greer to crack down on ascendant Chinese shipbuilding in…
Maine lawmakers in the state Senate have rejected a push to call for an Article V Convention to amend the…
Maine’s Democratic legislators have returned once again to one of their favorite legislative priorities: cracking down on Second Amendment rights.…
Maine’s Judiciary Committee is set to hold a massive public hearing this Friday on a slate of abortion-related legislation. The…
Republican lawmakers in Maine have proposed an amendment to the state’s constitution that would prohibit the governor from calling the…
Tomorrow the legislature gavels in for a day of work in the Governor’s new special session. Both the House and…
The Legislative Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety voted unanimously on Monday in favor of a bill from Rep.…
As Secretary of State Shenna Bellows launches her campaign to succeed Gov. Janet Mills (D-Maine) in 2026, she has not…
Democrat lawmakers are now looking to amend Maine’s constitution to cap property tax increases for senior homeowners. Sponsored by Sen.…
Struck by how quickly Augusta has changed, I look back to when I got my start in the capital. In…
The Portland Public School Board will be considering changes to its multiple equity-related policies in order to avoid an appearance…
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday cracking down on voter fraud through a slew of election integrity…
The legislature’s Committee on Labor held a public hearing on Tuesday for a bill from Rep. Valli Geiger (D-Rockland) to…
Chief Patrol Agent Juan Bernal, the U.S. Border Patrol’s top official in Maine’s Houlton Sector, on Monday released a promotional…
The U.S. reached agreements with Ukraine and Russia on Tuesday to stop attacks on maritime traffic in the Black Sea…
An Eddington man was arrested on Tuesday in connection to social media posts in which he allegedly made threats against…
China’s growing foothold over the Panama Canal isn’t just fueling its own commercial interests, it also appears to be helping…
As U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pushes forward with his Make America Healthy Again…
The Maine Department of Economic and Community Development (DECD) has sponsored a pilot computer programming training project specifically targeted to…
A group of Maine House Democrats is working to enshrine the commemoration of the January 2021 Capitol protests into law…
A Maine Republican representative has filed an application to begin collecting signatures for a People’s Veto of the $11.3 billion…
Maine House Democrats voted again on Tuesday to impose controversial rules on Rep. Laurel Libby (R-Auburn) that deprive her of…
Abigail Adams, wife of John Adams and mother of John Quincy Adams, was an insightful, “to the point” writer. Without…
Lawmakers on the Veterans and Legal Affairs (VLA) Committee are divided along partisan lines over whether or not to advance…
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Administration for Children and Families (ACF) issued a memo on Monday…
You get a censure! and you get a censure! and you get a censure! Action in the House seems to…
The Maine state government is Frigged Up Beyond All Recognition (FUBAR, as the military acronym is politely known). It’s obvious…
This past week in Augusta, Democrat lawmakers pursued a relatively obscure parliamentary maneuver to pass an $11.3 billion spending bill…
A former student at Bonny Eagle High School in Standish is facing two counts of gross sexual assault for allegedly…
Tarlan Ahmadov, the director of the Maine Office of New Americans (ONA) who has recently faced calls for his resignation…
A multi-day Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operation in the Boston, Massachusetts area last week led to the arrests of…
Plot : Star of “The Blair Witch Project” retires from acting, moves to small town in Maine, gets elected to…
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has suspended funding for migrant shelters as it investigates possible misuse of the funds…
Former President Joe Biden has offered to come back into politics after dropping out of the 2024 presidential race to…
The Department of Defense (DOD) and Department of Energy (DOE) have funded more than 100 research projects using Chinese government…
President Donald Trump’s administration has removed the Biden-era Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) advisory designating gun violence as…
The Maine Legislature’s Committee on Environment and Natural Resources voted against two Republican-led bills that would prevent geo-engineering in the…
Majority Democrats in the Maine Legislature approved an $11.3 billion budget in the late hours of Thursday night after repeated…
An illegal alien was among two New York-based individuals who were arrested in Auburn on Thursday in connection to a…
Ryan McLaughlin, a sports reporter with The Ellsworth American, deleted his X account on Thursday following intense backlash after he…
Somali-American Abdullahi Ali has had a prolific life since arriving in Lewiston, Maine as a refugee in 2009. Ali has…
President Donald Trump signed an executive Thursday that represents the first step toward officially abolishing the federal Department of Education…
A new bill introduced this week looks to amend the laws governing Maine’s new Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML)…
An illegal alien from Uganda who was released into the U.S. under the Biden administration after trying to enter illegally…
Rainbow bullies have hijacked Maine’s state government and our allegedly democratic institutions. After winning majorities in the Maine State Senate…
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) confirmed on Wednesday that the University of Maine system of state-funded schools will comply…
The Maine House Democrats endeavored to move forward with what will be a nearly $12 billion biennial spending program on…
Three illegal aliens from the People’s Republic of China are currently being held in the custody of U.S. Immigration and…
The Maine House Democrats selected self-described “Transgender Death Educator” Quinn Gormley, former executive director of the far-left transgender advocacy group…
A U.S. Department of Education’s (DOE) Office of Civil Rights (OCR) investigation found on Wednesday that the Maine DOE is…
A French member of European Parliament made headlines on Sunday when he said it was time for the United States…
Portland Public Schools Superintendent Ryan Scallon on Tuesday doubled down on the district’s commitment to “equity” and to continue allowing…
A Stoneham woman was arrested this week after allegedly speeding near an elementary school and leading an Oxford County Sheriff’s…
Republican lawmakers are pushing for Maine to eliminate the state’s vehicle excise tax and replace it with an annual mileage-based…
Sen. Joe Baldacci (D-Penobscot) wants the state to either purchase or use eminent domain to seize control of the Bangor…
The question now isn’t whether President Trump will ever invite the country’s top judge to his Mar-A-Lago hideout for a…
Madness comes in many forms. Maine seems to be ground zero for it. Despite historic support for mandatory minimum sentences…
The transgender-identifying Waterville City Councilor Rien Finch—formerly known as Hannah Heidt—resigned from her position without warning on Monday, claiming that…
Maine Democrats are spending money like crazy. Is anything in Maine actually getting better?Senator Matt Harrington and Maine Wire Editor-in-Chief…
The FBI successfully extradited Francisco Javier Roman-Bardales, 47, thought to be a key leader of the MS-13 terrorist gang, on…
Democrat lawmakers are now looking to extend funding that makes community college free for all Maine residents — a benefit…
With over 10,000 overdoses last year alone and fatalities — many of them adolescents — ranging from 40 to 70…
Senate Minority Leader Trey Stewart joined Maine Wire Editor-in-Chief Steve Robinson to describe the largest spending package in Maine history,…
Three Dominican nationals were arrested Wednesday morning and charged in connection to an alleged conspiracy to distribute cocaine and crack…
On Tuesday, Portland Police took three suspects into custody accused of displaying handguns and making threats against an individual at…
The State of Maine has now awarded the last of the $60 million relief package approved last year in response…
An investigation into a shoplifting complaint by the Oxford County Sheriff’s Office led to four arrests and the seizure of…
Maine lawmakers are on track to reject a proposal to soften the restrictions surrounding candidates’ ability to communicate with voters…
As Maine faces a potentially substantial loss of federal education funding for refusing to comply with one of President Donald…
The Maine Legislature’s Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Committee considered a bill from State Rep. Nina Milliken (D-Blue Hill) to restrict…
GOP lawmakers are looking to reinstate the property tax stabilization program for Maine’s older homeowners that previously had been repealed…
After failing to secure a $120 million MaineCare bailout package at the State house last week, the Democrat-controlled State Legislature…
Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to a limited 30-day ceasefire in the ongoing conflict with Ukraine after a nearly two…
A new Republican-led bill introduced on Tuesday looks to amend the citizens petition process with respect to agency rule making…
The City of Portland and Maine taxpayers will be footing a nearly $4.5 million annual bill for operating a 179-bed…
Maine’s legislature held a public hearing on Monday for a bill from Rep. Chad Perkins (R-Dover-Foxcroft) that would expand Mainers’…
A midcoast Maine homeowner who was annoyed his neighbor’s trees were ruining his harbor view may have found a solution…
Flickr: Official White House Photo by Erin Scott
Rep. Kristen Cloutier (D-Lewiston) wants to put tampons in high school and middle school boys’ bathrooms with a new bill…
Lawmakers on the Veterans and Legal Affairs Committee have unanimously voted to recommend that a bill allowing candidates for Attorney…
A public hearing has been scheduled next week for a bill that aims to support Maine’s hospitality industry by eliminating…
The next and perhaps final phase of the budget battle is starting to gear up in Augusta. This week the…
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on Friday announced that they have awarded the first border wall construction contract of…
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights ruled Monday that Maine’s education authorities and a…
The U.S. military began a large-scale operation Saturday against the Iran-backed Houthi terrorists in Yemen to defend American interests and…
President Donald Trump made a bombshell announcement on Sunday night, declaring that all the pardons signed by former President Joe…
The Democratic Party has dropped to a new record low among Americans, reaching only a 29% favorability rating, according to…
Maine Democrats have proposed levying an additional four percent tax on income earned over $1 million to fund public education.…
The Oxford County Sheriff’s Department conducted a raid on a large-scale illegal marijuana operation in Dixfield on Friday, seizing over 1,600 illegally cultivated plants. The Sheriff’s Department procured a search warrant after receiving information that a house on Porter Rd. in Dixfield had been converted into an illegal marijuana grow site. The address — 142
A Portland man accused of throwing a rock through the window of a motor vehicle was arrested on Sunday and…
Images from Houlton Sector Border Patrol
Update: After the publication of this article, Rep. Reagan Paul (R-Winterport) contacted The Maine Wire saying that she has reconsidered…
The public will now get a chance to weigh in on whether to give Maine voters the opportunity to approve…
Democrat lawmakers in Augusta have introduced a bill that aims to prohibit “housing discrimination” based on a person’s source of…
Online Satanist networks targeting children for sexual abuse keep gravitating toward a gaming site that has pledged to crack down…
Protest at Cornell University in 2023 (Screenshot/YouTube/ NewsChannel 9 WSYR Syracuse)
A 13-year-old Cassidy Carlisle got an unwelcome shock when she encountered a biological male in the girls’ locker room at…
The White House withdrew the nomination of President Donald Trump’s pick for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)…
The third rail of life in summertime Maine – competition for limited beach parking – is heating up in one…
Lewiston’s Rep. Mana Abdi (D) has introduced a bill to allow state workers to get the Muslim holidays Eid al-Fitr…