A group called Silent No More Against Maine's Department of Health and Human Services rallied outside of the DHHS office in Skowhega...

A Buxton man faces several charges after police said he pushed two Maine Department of Health and Human Services caseworkers at his home as ...

A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed an Eddington woman’s lawsuit that sought to force the Maine Department of Health and Human Services to ...

Members of a newly-formed Facebook group were at the State House Wednesday protesting the Maine Department of Health and Human Services. ...

An Eddington woman is asking a federal judge to force the Maine Department of Health and Human Services to allow her contact with her 7-year...

In the 15 or so months since two Maine children died from abuse in their homes despite having had repeated contact with child welfare casewo...

State lawmakers are contemplating a bill that would limit the caseloads for state child protective workers, a shift aimed at closing cracks ...

The Legislature’s watchdog agency reported Friday that Maine’s child protective system is hobbled by overburdened caseworkers, staffing shor...

Early findings in a new report evaluating eight child welfare cases handled by Maine’s Office of Child and Family Services show a system-wid...

From 90 minute call wait times to slow responses, a new report highlights the problems with Maine's child welfare office. WMTW News 8...

A Maine father has been pardoned nearly five years after being accused of abusing his infant son. Brandon Ross had said a medical conditio...

In the more than 10 months since 10-year-old Marissa Kennedy was abused to death allegedly at the hands of her mother and stepfather, the nu...

A new Maine law calls for state officials to make "reasonable efforts" to keep families together instead of making it a "prio...

In 2012, the state of Maine began an effort to address a disturbing part of its history and present: the systematic removal of Indigenous ch...

Less than fifty years ago, one in four Native American children lived away from their families. They were in boarding schools or foster c...

Nearly 30 percent of foster children in Maine who were prescribed powerful psychiatric drugs did not receive a basic “treatment plan” or reg...

The last time Maine’s system for providing children with mental health services got a comprehensive look was in 1997. That’s when state of...

With all the issues with the Department of Health and Human Services, I feel compelled to write. Being raised in foster care system along ...

American Kevin Battle, a Harbor Master from Portland, Maine, recently found out that he was adopted from Co. Tipperary after taking a DNA te...

Maine's DHHS will use this case as a growth opportunity as the Legislature throws money at them to fix the problems, excluding th...