Augusta DAR chapter, museum staff, take part in Bells Across America

Augusta high school receives grant to provide preventive health services, expand access to behavioral care

Cony High School has received $56,000 from the Maine Center for Disease Control & Prevention to establish a more robust school-based health center.

UMA French Club presents screening of award-winning film ‘The Intersection (Le Carrefour)’

UMaine Augusta French club to present documentary film

It will be streaming Sept. 23-30, with in-person screening Sept. 30.

Video: State’s first ‘comfort dog’ starts paw patrol duty at dispatch center

Photos: State’s first ‘comfort dog’ starts paw patrol duty at dispatch center

Baxter, a 5-month-old chocolate lab, will become the state's first "comfort dog" and will be based at the Augusta Regional Communications Center. Baxter was trained by Hero Pups, a nonprofit based in New Hampshire, and his mission is to "provide health and mood-boosting benefits" to the emergency-service personnel and the community. Photos taken by Kennbec Journal photojournalist Joe Phelan.

Proposal for housing on Augusta’s Western Avenue approved, awarded 30-year tax break

Developer of Stevens Commons in Hallowell plans to build a 38-unit apartment building at 99 Western Ave. in Augusta.

Skehan endowment established for St. Michael School in Augusta

Man who killed father in Gardiner granted some unsupervised time in Augusta community

Leroy Smith III was found not criminally responsible by reason of insanity for the 2014 killing of his father at their Gardiner apartment and officials say medications have been effective in controlling his mental illness.

Winthrop Street fire fills apartment with smoke, sends person to hospital

Fire marshals are investigating the cause of a Thursday fire in Augusta that briefly sent one person to the hospital.