A proposed two-year limit on Medicaid coverage for a widely used medicine for opiate addicts would lead to increased addiction and overdose deaths at a time when the state is trying to turn the tide on a prescription drug abuse epidemic, according to physicians and addicts.

Maine’s effort to create a new health insurance marketplace for individuals and small businesses got a $6 million boost Tuesday from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

The money will help create a competitive insurance exchange.

Cases of Legionnaires’ disease are on the rise in Maine and other New England states, and it’s not known why.

AUGUSTA — The head of the state office that oversees Maine’s medical marijuana program has resigned after being placed on administrative leave several weeks ago.

When Gladys Curtis no longer could stand the sharp pain in her back earlier this month, she called her doctor.

SOUTH PORTLAND — Jane Cleaves can remember when nurses didn’t speak directly to doctors and were supposed to stand when a doctor entered the room.

A long-running dispute between Anthem Health Plans of Maine and the state’s Bureau of Insurance goes before the state’s highest court today, and the outcome could affect health insurance premiums in Maine and beyond.

Two men died from gases while working in a sewage tank in Kennebunkport in September.