Waterville News

The Inside Out Playground will close later this month after 16 years in the city.

Sixteen people will graduate today from a program designed to give them an added advantage in the workforce.

Councilors on Wednesday voted 6-1 to approve a tax plan for an affordable-housing project on Gilman Street.

The plant manager of General Electric Security, the town's largest employer, wants employees who need hospital care to travel 22 miles south -- not one mile down the road.

H1N1 virus has hit the central Maine schools. At least two students who attend Waterville and Oakland schools have tested positive for H1N1 recently, according to school superintendents.

Halloween is just hours away. Depending on where you live you could have hundreds of kids knocking on your door.

AUGUSTA : Dr. Dora Anne Mills, director of the Maine Center for Disease Control, said Oct.

As I contemplate another career change, I admit to a lurking sense of unease. ... The most consistent factor in my life has been growing peas.

A Halloween parade, of sorts, wound its way around part of Waterville - encouraging young girls to get scary this holiday, instead of sexy.

Wayne David DuPlessis of Bethel died Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009. He was born Jan. 10, 1952, in Van Buren, the son of Ludger and Theresa DuPlessis.

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Mark McAuliffe, a managing partner of Apothecary by Design on Marginal Way in Portland, is in favor of TABOR because he believes that it will lure business and economic development to the state.

Foreign correspondent Paul Salopek, who was imprisoned for five weeks in 2006 while reporting from Darfur, is being recognized by Colby College for his courageous journalism.

Dozens of school districts across the state have merged with the goal of cutting administrative costs under Maine's school district consolidation law.

About a dozen local elected officials from Eastern and Central Maine stood on the steps of Bangor city hall this morning to show their support for same sex marriage.

Officers from seven local, county, and state police agencies met with the media to discuss the details of a major drug bust in central Maine.

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Colby College announces the following upcoming events that are free and open to the public.

A 38-year-old Waterville, Maine, man who spent time in prison for the 1989 murder of his mother has been charged with attempted gross sexual assault.

Food for Maine's Future announced that Friday, Oct. 16, 2009, is International Day of Opposition to Monsanto.