9+ hour, 3+ min ago   (1639+ words) America is being introduced to Troy Jackson as a fifth-generation logger from the remote northern Maine town of Allagash, a working-class populist who never imagined himself becoming the Democratic nominee for the United States Senate. Mainers know a considerably more…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (376+ words) Steve Scheibner, former Navy pilot and Baptist minister in Brunswick, Maine, recalls being pulled from the September 11 assignment by American Airlines 25 years ago. Steve Scheibner, a Maine-trained Navy veteran and commercial airline pilot, was originally scheduled to co-pilot ill-fated American…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago   (405+ words) The Trump administration has asked the United States Supreme Court for an emergency stay that would allow the federal government to use an expanded federal database to verify citizenship information on state voter rolls ahead of the upcoming midterm elections....

3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (163+ words) A fishing charter has won $55,000 for catching the largest bluefin in the Boothbay Harbor Tuna Challenge. The tuna caught by the Molly Jane was so heavy the captain couldn’t winch it in to the 45-foot boat for fear he’d snap…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (1091+ words) Maine has opened its first high school specifically for students recovering from substance-use disorders, launching an ambitious experiment with just four students and more than $600,000 in opioid-settlement funding as state officials continue searching for answers to Maine’s addiction crisis. The…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (557+ words) Michael Touhey was behind the U.S. Airways ticket counter at the Portland International Jetport on September 11, 2001 when two foreign-looking men approached for their flight check-in. In an interview with Reuters, the former Portland, Maine, ticket agent recounted the moments when two…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (1460+ words) A Maine Wire investigation finds Leonardo’s ELSAG cameras held Maine drivers’ plate data past the state’s 21-day legal limit, that the company was first alerted to the defect as far back as December 2022, and that when the problem resurfaced this…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (763+ words) Republicans from across the country are gathering in Dallas Wednesday for something the GOP has never attempted before: a full-scale national convention built around a midterm election. President Donald Trump will take center stage at the Republican National Committee’s two-day…...

5+ day, 11+ hour ago   (362+ words) Former Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Graham Platner failed to appear Monday at an Ellsworth Labor Day event where organizers had publicly said the Marine veteran would lead a veterans’ march through downtown. A source told The Maine Wire that Platner did…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (657+ words) Gloria Steinem, the journalist and activist who became one of the most influential figures in the American feminist movement and helped push abortion rights, the Equal Rights Amendment and gender politics into the center of the nation’s political debate, has…...