Seventh-graders must have booster shots starting this year as Maine’s high incidence of ‘nasty’ pertussis persists.

Meanwhile, a Brunswick man helps run a Red Cross evacuation center east of Fort Myers.

Maine’s senior senator says she believes Congress will reinstate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which protects people brought to the U.S. illegally as children.

Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield said opioid prescriptions written to its customers over a one-year period ending June 30 had declined 15 percent compared to the same period a year earlier.

The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which funds services for the disabled, could require the state to change the way it responds to reports of abuse and other critical incidents.