Lewiston to consider body cameras for police following talks between mayor and police union

Mayor Mark Cayer met with the police patrol union Monday regarding the City Council's resolution condemning racial profiling.

Lewiston mayor to meet with police union following resolution rebuttal

Mayor Mark Cayer said he will discuss the police union's reaction to a City Council resolution that condemned racial profiling.

Police out in force after Lewiston downtown shooting

Agents from the Central Maine Violent Crimes Task Force joined the effort. 

Lewiston stabbing suspect arrested in Knox County

Lewiston man dies after being severely burned while working on car

Steve McCausland, spokesman for the Maine Department of Public Safety, said that a 57-year old Lewiston man caught fire Saturday after an ignition source sparked while he was working on his SUV and engulfed him in flames.

Lewiston police seek teens who ‘eloped’ from a youth shelter

Lewiston police working under new drug-testing policy

The city and police union agreed to the new directive last month and are awaiting approval from the Maine Department of Labor.

Lewiston approves new police union contract more than a year early

The agreement will take the department through June 2024.

Lewiston police search for missing man

Michael Allen Roberts, 63, hasn't been seen downtown since December.

Two days, two hatchet attacks in Lewiston

Lewiston police say a man was bleeding after he was struck by a hatchet during a fight Wednesday night. In an unrelated incident Thursday afternoon, another man with a hatchet reportedly threatened a tow truck driver in Lewiston.