1+ day, 2+ hour 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…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (147+ words) Republican gubernatorial nominee Bobby Charles’ sister, Bates College education professor Anita Charles, endorsed Democrat Hannah Pingree on Wednesday in a Portland Press Herald op-ed and subsequent press conference. Anita Charles wrote that she and her brother “have never agreed politically,…...

5+ day, 23+ hour ago   (809+ words) At Monday’s Labor Day gathering in Brewer, Dave Sullivan, General Vice President of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers’ Eastern Territory, had praise for the media covering Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Troy Jackson. “The press has been…...

6+ day, 4+ 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, 32+ min ago   (1297+ words) When President Donald Trump singled out Maine while discussing government fraud last week, the comment was impossible to miss. “If you look at California, if you look at Minnesota, if you look at Maine — who would think Maine?” Trump said....

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (737+ words) Former Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Graham Platner has been removed from the speaking lineup at an upcoming Labor Day rally in Ellsworth, a significant change as Maine Democrats work to move beyond the controversy surrounding their former nominee and focus on…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (744+ words) Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Troy Jackson kicked off his town hall campaign Tuesday evening at Lewiston’s Franco Center, drawing roughly 275 people to hear the former Maine Senate president make his case for representing Maine in Washington. One news organization, however, was…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (1069+ words) Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Troy Jackson will launch a series of public town halls Tuesday in Lewiston, part of a campaign strategy aimed squarely at Republican Sen. Susan Collins and what Jackson says is her unwillingness to face Maine voters in…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (222+ words) A new bridge on Route 11 near Millinocket now bears a special plaque naming it the Detective Benjamin Campbell Memorial Bridge. Col. William Ross of Maine State Police and U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, spoke about Det. Campbell’s bravery and service as…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (1650+ words) Maine is a small state about to experience an enormous political war. Political advertising surrounding the state’s 2026 U.S. Senate race could approach $400 million, according to projections from Ad Impact, roughly twice the staggering amount spent during Maine’s record-setting 2020 Senate contest....