Columbia University is seeking federal money to test a majority of Kennebec County’s 17,000 wells.

The chairman of the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee said the hiring means the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs must ‘look very closely at their hiring practices.’

The city wants to borrow $8 million to renovate the 118-year-old building, which can be done without a tax increase.

Linda M. Gallant, with a long criminal record, was charged with arson after telling a policeman she was drinking again days after the blaze.

Maine Forward is supported by a cadre of liberal groups that spent hundreds of thousands in 2012 to influence legislative races.

A Connecticut man and a West Gardiner man who are said to have fled the scene were tracked to Gardiner, where they were apprehended on Tuesday morning.

The Kennebec Local Food Initiative says its store, featuring groceries, coffee and prepared food, will ‘bring local food to the entire community.’

The Kennebec River isn’t expected to flood, but a county emergency official says crews are ‘keeping an eye on things.’

‘People are just coming out of the woodwork’ to help beat back the second effort in 10 years to ban bear baiting, hounding and trapping in Maine.

Transportation officials want to take down or move 68 signs advertising places from York County to Fort Kent, but stiff opposition is expected.