The Republican mayor of Waterville, Maine, issued a proclamation declaring October 14 “Columbus Day” in his city as he bucked a new state law that renamed the holiday “Indigenous Peoples’ Day.”
A referee was shot in the face by a cannon while officiating during a football game in Castine, Maine, over the weekend.
Authorities arrested a Maine woman Tuesday morning nearly one year after her one-year-old daughter died because she rubbed a fatal dose of heroin on the infant’s gums.
Asylum-seeking migrants who were recently welcomed into southern Maine are complaining about being sent to free housing in wooded districts of central Maine, according to the Associated Press.
A coalition of faith-based and pro-life groups in Maine is leading a “people’s veto campaign” to attempt to overturn at the ballot box in November a new law that legalizes taxpayer funding of elective abortions.
Author Stephen King endorsed Maine’s Democratic House Speaker Sara Gideon in her campaign to unseat Sen. Susan Collins (R-MA) in next year’s election, declaring that it is “time” for Collins to leave office.
Maine became the eighth state to legalize assisted suicide Wednesday as Democrat Gov. Janet Mills signed a bill into law that allows doctors to prescribe lethal drugs to terminally ill individuals to end their lives.
One Maine school gave a warm welcome to an incoming six-year-old deaf student by teaching all staff and students American Sign Language (ASL).
Maine is on the verge of joining those states giving up their rights under the Electoral College and changing election rules to award the state’s vote to the winner of the popular vote.
United States authorities announced Monday that a 37-year-old woman was arrested last week for allegedly mailing a threatening letter to Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) in October.
LGBTQ lobbyists are working to achieve control of mental health professionals in Maine as a means to crush the notion that children who claim to be a gender that is incompatible with their biological sex are psychologically impaired.
The #RedforEd movement is now targeting the state of Maine, where teachers plan to converge on the state capital of Augusta on April 17 to support the passage of a bill that would grant them the right to strike.
Maine lawmakers are considering legislation that would expand their current ranked-choice voting system to presidential elections.
The Maine state House on Tuesday passed a resolution to change Columbus Day, a holiday celebrated annually in October, to Indigenous People’s Day.
A Maine Republican sponsored legislation that would forbid teachers from endorsing political candidates and from using their classrooms as bully pulpits for ideological advocacy.
Maine’s new Democrat governor intends to make it easier for women in her state to obtain an abortion.
Democrat-led states allied with Planned Parenthood are challenging the Trump administration’s new rule that would block about $60 million in family planning funding to the organization because it provides and refers for abortions.
SKOWHEGAN, Maine (AP) — Guinness World Records has never had an entry for group moose-calling. Until now.
The city of Portland, Maine is “struggling” due to mass legal immigration primarily from Africa being driven to the region, as public resources and the state’s social safety net are strained.
A judge sentenced a Maine woman to 150 days in prison on Tuesday for cracking her father’s skull using a fire poker while drunk.
Outgoing Maine Gov. Paul LePage decided to troll a Democratic candidate who won a House race on Friday by writing the words “stolen election” on an election certificate certifying the win.
A federal judge ruled against Rep. Bruce Poliquin’s (R-ME-02) constitutional challenge to Maine’s “rank voting” system (also known as “RCV,” or ranked-choice voting) on Thursday.
The recount in Maine’s controversial 2nd Congressional District race, where the state’s new “rank voting” system was used for the first time in American history, is proceeding faster than anticipated.
The Democrat Secretary of State of Maine is refusing to investigate sworn affidavits presented by 17 residents of the state’s 1st Congressional District that they were erroneously given ballots to vote in the 2nd Congressional District race between Rep. Bruce Poliquin (R-ME-02) and Democrat Jared Golden.
The Maine Republican Party called on Maine Secretary of State Matt Dunlap on Thursday to launch an investigation into election irregularities it has uncovered in the controversial 2nd congressional district election held on November 6.
On Monday, Maine Secretary of State Matt Dunlap announced that a recount of the November 6 election in Maine’s Second Congressional District will begin on Thursday and will continue for an estimated four weeks.
Lesperance said GOP losses in the region “were a continuation of a trend that began way before Donald Trump, but his presidency has increased the disconnect between New England Republicans and the broader national Republican Party.”
Frigid temperatures set records across the Northeast United States for Thanksgiving Day as bouts of snowfall and icy cold winds swept through the region.
The Northeastern United States is likely in for a “frigid” Thanksgiving as chilly winds may bring “more rounds of snow and slick travel.”
Maine GOP executive director Jason Savage called for replacing a staffer for the Maine Secretary of State in light of biased tweets against Rep. Bruce Poliquin (R-ME).
The Main Department of Health and Human Services is shutting down attempts by Charlotte’s Legendary Lobster Pound to relieve trauma to lobsters by getting them high before they are killed.
The state of Maine rejected a proposal from the left-wing animal activist organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) on Thursday to build a tombstone to memorialize thousands of dead lobsters.
A new report from the New York Times seemingly blasts the state of New Hampshire, as well as Vermont and Maine, for being “nearly all white.”
The state of Maine’s first Somali Muslim immigrant police officer has been placed on administrative leave after being arrested for a multitude of charges, including assault, at a Ja Rule concert.
Unless Republicans can find a way to address the health insurance crisis, they will lose Congress, and deservedly so.
Among the many factors in Democrat Doug Jones’s victory over Republican Roy Moore in the U.S. Senate race in Alabama on Tuesday, one has been curiously ignored: namely, Jones’s focus on the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP).
An Iraqi immigrant who owned a halal market in Portland, Maine, pleaded guilty to using his store to commit millions of dollars in food stamp fraud.
The most important result on Tuesday was Maine’s vote to expand Medicaid under Obamacare — the first time voters have directly approved that policy.
A former Republican state Senate candidate in Maine is the fourth woman to accuse former President George H.W. Bush of groping her.
A photo of three Maine roofers, who stopped what they were doing to stand while the national anthem played at a nearby high school football game, is gaining a lot of traction on the Internet.
