Animal Tales: Two organizations are dedicated to fostering and finding forever homes for pit bulls and other maligned dogs throughout Maine.

The rules would expand seasonal slow zones off the East Coast, and require more vessels to comply with the rules.

About 20 miniature horses from across Maine compete Sunday.

Draft proposal under consideration by City Council would require people to own lakefront property to have a mooring on the increasingly popular pond.

The male prisoner was found unresponsive early Sunday morning, officials said.

A 30-year-old woman was struck by a truck whose driver fled the scene, police said.

Battery-powered outboards are seen as a first step in 'electrifying' the working waterfront. Are pleasure boats next?

The nonprofit held Toast to the Coast parties in different locations, including Fore Points Marina in Portland.

The Maine Technology Institute, which awarded the taxpayer funds, makes very little data available about the investments.

Patients told the Sun Journal that their experience seeking care for a mental health crisis at a hospital emergency department has been uneventful at best and extremely traumatic at worst.

Glen Mitchell Simon was sentenced Friday after pleading guilty to a charge of disorderly and disruptive conduct at the Capitol.

The event was held Saturday in a big field next to the animal shelter at 100 Webb Road.

Though one annual activity elicited some controversy online, residents of all ages found various other ways to enjoy their town Saturday.

The public is invited to attend the session to hear an overview of the project, including the territory it will cover.

The city's Planning Board approved an Augusta Housing Authority proposal for 32 new apartments off Bangor Street and will soon take up a proposal for a 38-unit building on Western Avenue.

Schools around the country are struggling to fill vacancies, and Maine schools are having mixed success.

The Republican candidates for governor and U.S. House, respectively, had vigorously denounced the FBI search of former President Donald Trump's Florida home.

An undisclosed amount of cash was taken from the Circle K store on Norridgewock Road early Friday, Fairfield police said.

Club staff will spend the next two weeks moving into the new building next door in Gardiner before it opens at the end of the month.

Augusta- and Waterville-area arrests for Aug. 5-12, 2022.

Organizer Dennis Price has assured that the event, a part of Readfield Heritage Days, will abide by state rules and will be done with care. The Maine Animal Coalition feels differently.

Golden joined the rest of his party's members in passing the legislation after being the only House Democrat to vote against the larger Build Back Better package that passed in the House but failed in the Senate last year.

The Hallowell Woodstock and Arts Festival will take place Sunday at Granite City Park from noon to 6 p.m.

The $26 million hotel built by Colby College has been housing students for the last two years because of the pandemic, but is now ready to receive guests.

Behind the scenes, workers have created a three-dimensional model of the Sequoia because the original design plans couldn't be found.

The unidentified child is the third person known to be infected in Maine.

After five superintendents stepped down over three years, officials from Regional School Unit 2 hope that conducting a longer search will yield a candidate who wants to stay.

Cole Libby, 27, had a warrant out for his arrest from three counties. Police found him at his home in Liberty with two other convicted felons.

Aaron Nickerson, 47, is facing 10 charges, including domestic violence terrorizing, and was being held without bail Friday after the standoff earlier this week, according to the Waldo County Sheriff's Office.

Robert Kelley, 77, born in Waterville, was found dead Monday in a hotel room in rural North Dakota and the county coroner there has been unable to find any family to claim his remains, Amy Calder writes.

Supply-chain issues have further driven up the price of carbon dioxide, which is used in several aspects of brewing.

A fire destroyed the dairy barn at Flaggy Meadow Farm, and now the Youngs must decide the future of their family business.

Jonathan Sahrbeck declined to release a copy of a report on the independent investigation on the altercations last summer, but felt confident after reviewing it that the use of force was reasonable.

Estimated to be about 100 years old, the section of the Exhibition Hall closest to the racetrack was torn down Wednesday, Aug. 10, after it was determined needed repairs would be too expensive.

There is no clear reason why Maine's average price is about 40 cents higher than the national average of $3.99, but several industry experts said the Northeast generally has higher gas prices than the rest of the nation.

The Governor's Energy Office filed Thursday for intervenor status to oppose the increase, which would add about $10 a month to an average customer's bill.

City councilors will finalize the language for the nonbinding ballot questions next month. The projects are expected to cost up to $7 million total.

Parker Redlevske is a 14-year-old with an aptitude for technology who raised $15,000 to open a technology repair franchise in Waterville.

Here are some of our favorite Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel photos from the past week.

The culvert washed out in March from rainfall.

Paul LePage and Bruce Poliquin denounce the FBI search, taking a stance that experts say undermines the rule of law and health of democracy.

Maine's U.S. senators sponsor legislation that would halve the travel time from Millinocket to the national monument.

Workers Smokey Greater Shows this week assembled rides and made other preparations for the opening Thursday of the Skowhegan State Fair, which runs until Aug. 20. Photos taken by Morning Sentinel photojournalist Michael G. Seamans.

Casco Bay Lines will scale back some trips starting this weekend, while the state ferry services has had to cancel dozens of trips this summer.

The singing contest recently wrapped up its second season, and organizers are already looking ahead to its third year.

Richard Rockwell says the houses will be improved and used for employee housing, assisting chefs, accountants and workers in the trades.

The MRC announced the $1.5 million purchase Wednesday and intends to reopen the plant in nine to 12 months after it establishes a partnership with a financial firm.

As Joseph Connors takes on the selectman's job, a second special election is scheduled for November to fill the seat that will be vacant with the expected resignation of Selectman Tyler Tripp.

Robert Santerre of Chelsea said he fell asleep at the wheel before his car went off Cony Road and struck and killed Barbara Maxim-Hendsbee, Rosalyn Jean and 1-year-old Vada-Leigh Peaslee.

It is alleged that the bus driver gave a New Hampshire student cellphones with instructions to take inappropriate photos of himself, placed tracing devices on his parents’ vehicles and made nighttime visits to their home.

Glen Mitchell “Mitch” Simon is scheduled for sentencing Friday for his participation in the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol in 2021.

Four people turned out Tuesday for the Waterville Republican Committee caucus to choose candidates, but City Clerk Patti Dubois says the committee had missed the deadline to put a notice in the newspaper to alert voters it was happening.

Arcon Realty is expected to begin building a 23-unit multifamily complex this fall at the site of the former John Martin's Manor restaurant.