SIDNEY — The Board of Selectmen will hold a public hearing tonight at 6 in the Town Office.

A task force of lawmakers, state officials and experts in health care and drug addiction is about to submit a report calling for education campaigns and legal reforms to fight painkiller abuse and addiction in Maine.

A Corinna man who illegally possessed a gun after he was committed to a mental institution will not go to jail.

HALLOWELL — The city is on its way to approving a tax break for the construction of a $85 million natural gas pipeline in central Maine.

WINSLOW — The town council Monday narrowly approved a moratorium on the sale of fireworks.

AUGUSTA — A judge on Tuesday rejected the latest efforts to get arson charges dismissed against Raymond Bellavance Jr., allowing his jury trial to get under way this morning in Kennebec County Superior Court.

A $120 million shortfall in the state budget for this year has set off an ideological debate over the future of Maine’s Medicaid program.