Three people were displaced after city officials found defects in the home at 44 State St., which entered the tax foreclosure process earlier this year.

Scott Phair and wife Karen Laverty plan to spend a year in the tropical islands of the Federated States of Micronesia.

The gas company is asking state regulators to approve a 62 percent delivery rate increase that would be phased in over three years.

Selectmen have scheduled a special town meeting for July 20 to seek voters’ permission to accept donations that could be used to pay the town’s legal bills in the tower fight.

A proposed contract calls for a five-year term in which the state would pay the city $550,000 a year to run the airport.

The hope is that the Augusta fort will become a regional repository where the public can enjoy the artifacts.

Although officials speculated in 2013 that part of the old fort’s roof may have drifted down the Kennebec River, additional research has shown that’s not the case.