Augusta-based education program to offer online classes in October

Le Club Calumet celebrates 100 years of Franco American culture

After a century of making a community for French Canadian residents of Augusta and of civic accomplishment, the club looks toward a strong future.

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.

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.

As need for autopsies increases, plans approved for bigger medical examiner’s office in Augusta

The $18.8 million facility would help the state perform more autopsies and meet the needs of the Office of Chief Medical Examiner for the next 30 years, officials say.

Maine fishermen are fighting to harvest more pogies, used as lobster bait

A complex quota system governs how many of the fish, also known as menhaden, can be harvested by states on the East Coast. But there's debate about how or if the quotas should be changed.

Ag department offers Specialty Crop Block Grants Program funding

Augusta’s 2nd sinkhole in a month repaired on Western Avenue

A failing brick manhole caused a sinkhole to form Tuesday in front of the Augusta Plaza. The unusual leak has prompted a review of other manholes in the city.