Former U.S. Senator Alan Simpson, R-Wyoming, delivered the 2013 Mitchell Lecture at Colby College, talking national debt and health care costs, among other topics.

Messalonskee High School’s robotics club will move on to the national level after overcoming all competitors at the Pine Tree FIRST Robotics Competition at the Androscoggin Bank Colisee in Lewiston.

U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree has opened a district office on Waterville’s Main Street in the same location that, until recently, was the site of one of U.S. Rep. Mike Michaud’s offices.

Rather than place their mother, who suffers from Alzheimer’s disease, into an institution, two Oakland siblings have made helping family into the family business.

After 12 years in the position, Ken Young announced Tuesday he is resigning as executive director of the Kennebec Valley County Council of Governments.

Family members of Kitty McGuire, the 13-year-old middle school student who committed suicide last week, said she was bullied in the months leading up to her death and organized a protest Monday in front of Mount View Middle School.

Interfaith Food Pantry has received $13,682 so far from donors, and a $25,000 pledge from a Windsor businessman, just weeks after it announced a $100,000 goal to move out of its current, cramped quarters and into a new home.

Across-the-board sequestration cuts to federal programs have left the Meals on Wheels program unable to deliver meals to some area seniors, leaving them struggling to feed themselves.