The first time Sam Cheeney saw a green crab was in the early 2000s, as part of an ecology class at the University of Maine at Machias. He and his classmates ventured out across the mud flats and rocky ...

Democratic Rep. Jared Golden, a perennial Republican target representing a rural Maine seat, has drawn a primary challenger in a potential wrinkle to his bid for a fifth term. State Auditor Matthew ...

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Authorities in Maine are investigating a claim that hundreds of blank ballots for this year's November election were delivered to a woman as part of her Amazon order. Officials in Ellsworth, a coastal ...

In October 2025, a rumor circulated online that an unnamed woman in Newburgh, Maine, received hundreds of 2025 state referendum ballots alongside her order in an Amazon delivery package. Snopes ...

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Jonathan Bush, the nephew of one former president and the cousin of another, is seeking to extend his family’s political dynasty as the next Republican governor of Maine. The health care entrepreneur ...

Democratic Rep. Jared Golden (Maine) criticized “far-left groups” for demanding Democrats vote against a Republican-backed proposal to fund the government. “This government shutdown is the result of ...

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