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Poll: Mainers want transgender athletes barred from competing under their gender identity

By Ethan Andrews on Mar 27, 2025 05:48 pm
Sixty-four percent of respondents voiced opposition to transgender female athletes competing in women’s sports, versus 29 percent in support.
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2 UMaine hockey freshmen have stepped up as Black Bears face Penn State on Friday

By Larry Mahoney on Mar 27, 2025 03:49 pm
Last year, Oskar Komarov and Thomas Pichette were competing for British Columbia Junior Hockey League honors. Now they're trying to win an NCAA Division I championship.
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Boothbay waste district suspends manager amid FBI probe

By Jules Walkup on Mar 27, 2025 03:21 pm
An FBI spokesperson said agents were doing “routine law enforcement activity” at the transfer station in Boothbay on Wednesday.
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Maine’s international border agents are using drones to make more arrests

By Kathleen Phalen Tomaselli on Mar 27, 2025 03:03 pm
Apprehensions by the Houlton Sector are up this year, despite a 40.5 percent drop across the whole northern U.S. border.
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Susan Collins voted for Donald Trump’s budget chief. Now she doesn’t like his cuts.

By Billy Kobin on Mar 27, 2025 02:13 pm
Russell Vought, the architect of “Project 2025,” has advocated for Trump’s aggressive cuts to government agencies and going around Congress on certain spending decisions.
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Maine loses millions in COVID-era funds under Donald Trump’s new cuts

By Billy Kobin on Mar 27, 2025 01:15 pm
The federal grants also helped with tracking, preventing and controlling infectious diseases such as bird flu and measles.
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Cooper Flagg has been a ‘coach’s dream’ for a long time

By Matt Junker on Mar 27, 2025 12:35 pm
According to people who have coached him over the course of his career, Flagg's talent almost takes a back seat.
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UMaine pauses new financial offers to grad students amid funding uncertainty

By Billy Kobin on Mar 27, 2025 12:06 pm
That comes as the Legislature has kept support for the university flat and the Trump administration has frozen and unfrozen funds.
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Maine school district won’t sign Trump’s Title IX agreement

By Marie Weidmayer on Mar 27, 2025 11:39 am
Both Maine School Administrative District 51 and the MPA will continue to follow Maine state law and the Maine Human Rights Act, they said.
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2 Maine town officials charged after they got into altercation during budget talks

By Molly Rains, Lincoln County News on Mar 27, 2025 11:25 am
Both Don Chase and Michael Cox were charged with disorderly conduct after the fight at the Somerville Town Office.
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