Authorities in Quebec say they’ve had no contact with Pittsfield-based Cianbro in regards to the proposed east-west highway since 2008.

DOVER-FOXCROFT — Scores of protesters, many carrying signs and wearing blaze-orange shirts and armbands, were assembled here this afternoon to oppose plans to build an east-west highway across central Maine.

AUGUSTA — Suzanne Tanner sat up straighter and leaned across a table to hear what a truck driver had to say about the crash that killed her 12-year-old daughter last summer.

State Treasurer Bruce Poliquin, one of six Republican candidates for Maine’s open U.S. Senate seat, has angered some of his competitors by producing a television ad and sending out a mailer that imply he has Gov. Paul LePage’s endorsement.

AUGUSTA — The board that oversees county jail systems throughout Maine on Thursday voted to maintain funding levels for the upcoming fiscal year, even as it deals with unrest created in large part by the state government’s refusal to live up to its financial promises.

AUGUSTA — A city teenager is wanted in connection with a shooting Wednesday night in which a gun was fired at a car while two people were inside, police said.