Mount View High School teacher arrested on several charges following Waterville altercation, police say

Karina Beadling, 39, was with her 7-year-old daughter last week when she was taken into custody after Beadling confronted an ex-boyfriend, officials say.

Farmington-based healthy coalition gets $1 million federal grant to help vaccine efforts in five counties

The project’s target population includes the unvaccinated in the service areas of Franklin, Androscoggin and Oxford counties.

Kennebec County Administrator Robert Devlin to retire at year’s end

Devlin was hired as Kennebec County's first administrator, after he lobbied the Maine State Legislature to allow counties the independent authority to hire professional managers without seeking permission from state lawmakers.

Waterville program offers child abuse prevention training

Man to serve 8 years in prison for Waterville drive-by shooting that injured 7-year-old girl

The father of Emahleeah Frost says his daughter, who was shot while in her bedroom, may suffer consequences of the shooting for the rest of her life.

Central Maine residents indicted on fentanyl trafficking charges, could forfeit $75,000

A Kennebec County grand jury indicted more than 20 people recently on drug charges.

For Oakland man, trapping beaver a lifelong avocation

Caleb Jones, 28, sets traps in large waterways all over Kennebec County, and helps remove beavers from people's property, where the rodents chew through trees.

Kennebec commissioners vote to move Augusta’s Melville Fuller statue

The unanimous decision at Tuesday's commissioners meeting is not the end of the process, as a committee is expected to be named to make a recommendation where the statue will go.

Kennebec County official facing sexual assault charges has history of prior job misconduct, documents say

James Saucier, 58, of Belgrade, who has been on paid administrative leave since April 9, 2020, has a track record of misusing county property and violating direct orders.

Kennebec County maintenance manager sexually assaulted female inmate assigned to work for him, police allege in documents

James Saucier, 58, of Belgrade, was arrested last week on three counts of gross sexual assault in connection with the case, and the alleged victim told authorities she wasn't the first incarcerated female he had assaulted.