Robert Ruffner, director of the Maine Indigent Defense Center, began by saying that whether the state is living up to the ...

Phil Cyr has signed an agreement with First Atlantic Healthcare to sell his nursing homes in Presque Isle and Caribou.

Horn says her office will provide the ‘connective tissue’ local governments need as they work on making communities more ...

Advocates said they would like to see legislation that helps address the shortage of health care workers, among other things.

Penquis Transportation, Waldo Community Action Partners and Modivcare will continue to provide services in their respective regions for another six months while the parties battle in court over the ...

Efforts to build a team of public defenders devoted to representing indigent parents in child protection cases underway in Maine.

A game plan for confronting climate change-fueled floods emerged by the confluence of the Kennebec and Sandy rivers.

Finding housing as a blue-collar worker on Mount Desert Island was tough in 2009. In the intervening years, it has become ...

Between 28 and 57 percent of the state’s coastal marshes could disappear by the end of the century, victims of a rising sea, ...

Fochesato mentioned working with cancer survivors who had difficulty getting to and from their medical appointments — some ...

One of the most important lessons I’ve learned reporting on addiction is to lead with empathy and understanding.