Did people know that Maine is one of only 14 states that doesn’t require voters to provide identification? In October 2024, a Gallup poll found that 84% of Americans support voter ID. This is not a partisan issue, it’s an election integrity issue and it’s common sense. Voter ID increases voters’ trust in the election […]

Everywhere I go, Mainers are talking to me about property taxes. I hear it from retirees who have lived in the same house for 40 years and now worry they can’t afford to stay. I hear it from young families struggling to buy their first home and are worried property taxes will keep home ownership […]

Chair Sande Updegraph, the district 4 councilor, will resign effective Dec. 31.

The Maine Department of Corrections has ordered the jail to stop new intakes, return boarded inmates to their original facilities and create a plan to address its shortcomings.

A report that residential prices rose in Maine by more than a third raised some alarms, but state officials say the true cost to ratepayers is much lower.

The project began fours years ago and is finally expected to wrap up in November. Final steps include paving Route 1 underneath the bridge.

As Gardiner's football coach from 1975 through 1985, Wolfgram laid a foundation still in place.

The fact that Donald Trump won the election is a huge red flag. A Canadian once told me they feel Americans are greedy, angry, armed racists. It was offensive, but now it appears we are achieving all these. Civility, compassion, respect for diversity and fairness is in decline on all levels, global, national, state, town […]

Hunter Cox began his role as Saco's human resources director this week.

I interned for Sen. Susan Collins 20-plus years ago. Back then, I admired her reputation for independence. But recently, her career has become defined less by independence than by a profound weakness — when it counts, she rarely leads, rarely persuades. The forces shaping her party and our politics simply roll over her while she […]