Oakland News

The woman who succeeded in having two bridges renamed to honor domestic violence victims now wants to add memorial gardens at the bridges and to plant perennial flowers by the roadside -- all the way to Dexter.

Waterville - There was a new addition to this year's Memorial Day parade in Waterville- the American Legion Riders of Maine.

Outcome Based Education, a student-centered learning philosophy measuring performance by observation and experimentation, is fine for creating round pegs for round holes.

A pair of men with a history of drug offenses in Massachusetts were arrested early Thursday along with a woman after police raided a local apartment.

Kennebec Valley Gas Co. is proposing to build extra distribution lines off its planned natural gas pipeline in areas of town where there are at least 40 houses or businesses to tap in.

OAKLAND, Maine - The State Police bomb squad has blown up what turned out to be a fake pipe bomb found on the steps of a Catholic church in the town of Oakland.

Town officials have incentive to get the website redesign done: people complain about site glitches and it's inaccessible at times.

9, 2011, in Gardiner; three-year jail sentence, with all but 60 days suspended, two years of probation, $400 fine.

Police say they have solved a series of 20 to 30 home and motor-vehicle burglaries from the past 18 months.

Architecture student Juste Tresor Gatari and English and photography student Michelle Smith are this year's winners of the Distinguished Student Award, based on their academic work, extracurricular leadership and community service.

Police responding to a report of a fight on Summer Street early Friday morning arrested an Oakland man after he allegedly assaulted an officer.