More than 100 people attended Tuesday's forum at Gardiner Regional Middle School.

Police on Wednesday handed out fliers announcing a larger police presence in the city in coming months.

The 'angel' program, first started in Massachusetts, pairs addicts with people who can guide them through rehabilitation.

A cross section of experts, from law enforcement to physicians, have teamed up to address the state's opiate addiction crisis.

Damik Davis, 25, of New York, is being held at the Kennebec County jail in Augusta on a murder charge, and police are looking for two others for questioning.

The state wants him to take medicine in hopes that he can be made competent to stand trial in the death of his father, Leroy Smith Jr.

Even without a lease, landlords don't have the power of immediate eviction, according to an attorney at Pine Tree Legal.

A judge heard testimony Friday on a request from Jason Begin, 37, who was found not criminally responsible in 2004 for hijacking a plane and crashing in Canada in an apparent suicide attempt.

Thousands of dollars and supplies have been donated to help about 30 people displaced by the Highland Terrace fire earlier this month.

Three weeks after a fire damaged three downtown buildings, help continues to come in from the public while investigators try to determine how it started.

C.M. Bailey Library will close Friday for three weeks to allow time to move back into its expanded, renovated home on Bowdoin Street.

The $11 million project is expected to take about 18 months to complete.

Construction on the 2 1/2-acre site on Winthrop Street began in earnest in fall 2012, and the four-story building will now house district, superior and family courts.

Residents should be able to move into the old flatiron building on Cony circle sometime between mid-June and mid-July.

The $4.3 million reconstruction project is expected to continue through June of next year, but the one-way traffic restriction should be lifted by late November.

The company is complying with an order from the Public Utilities Commission to inspect pipe couplings across the Kennebec valley that contractors may have installed incorrectly, meaning roads will be dug up across the region.

The group plans to donate the land to the city with a conservation easement after paying off a bank loan it took out to buy the property.

Christopher Knight, who spent decades in the woods in Rome and Smithfield, begins three years of probation.

With 2 feet in many parts of the state – including a snowfall record in Portland – the forecast calls for two storms just ahead.