The Coast Guard is asking the public to start removing ice-fishing shacks from the Kennebec River in preparation for ice-breaking operations.

AUGUSTA — A judge on Tuesday morning issued arrest warrants for five former Occupy movement protesters, including a Benton selectwoman, after they failed to appear in court.

AUGUSTA — A Waterville man will spend seven years in prison for robbing a bank and making a bomb threat that forced an evacuation of a swath of the city’s downtown.

GARDINER — Phillip Barter has announced his candidacy as a Democrat for House District 59, representing Gardiner and Randolph.

GARDINER — Where does the city of Gardiner end and the town of Farmingdale begin?

AUGUSTA — School board members are interested in moving some of their meetings into City Council chambers because it’d make for better television.

The home country of skier Resi Stiegler was misidentified in a story on C3 of Monday’s edition. Stiegler is American. It was an editing error.

WINTHROP — The Town Council has set a special election later this month to fill the vacancy created by last week’s resignation of councilor James Lattin.