The cost of recycling and getting rid of waste is rising, and manufacturers must help pick up the tab, writes the manager of the Ogunquit Transfer Station.

It has been a few generations since doctors made house calls, and if they did, there are many large, rural parts of Maine that are beyond the reach of the “local” doctor. There is, however, one part of our health care system that will still respond to your home to provide emergency care — the […]

I am writing to advocate for passage of L.D. 967 to decriminalize possession and use of scheduled drugs. As a recovering alcoholic (over 50 years sober) and a counselor (LCPC and former LADC) who has worked with substance use disorders for decades, I am certain that this bill is a step in the right direction. […]

If the proposal goes through, it will bring much uncertainty, and subject residents to the open-ended prospect of daily, weekly, small and large crowd events, a neighborhood resident writes.

As the highly addictive synthetic opioid has come to dominate the drug supply, policy has not kept up, writes an Augusta-based physician of addiction medicine.

As a society, we should be trying to build resiliency in children and their families, writes the president of the Maine Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics.