The Capital Weekly, established in 2002, is a comprehensive free weekly newspaper covering all the news of the Augusta, Hallowell, Gardiner, Winthrop and the surrounding communities of central Maine.The Capital Weekly is Maine owned and managed.

The Capital Weekly's Digital Main Street^™ website is a leader in the industry and features writers from the paper along with unfettered and unfiltered posts from neighbors, business and organizations. The site provides a place for all those with an interest in the Augusta area to:

1. Learn the news that affects their community
2. Share the events and ideas that unite their community; and
3. Shop the goods and services that sustain their community.

TheSoup reaches beyond online and print news to create a place for community based discourse, debate and commerce. Here in Maine, four of the state’s most-established weekly newspapers - The Herald Gazette, The Republican Journal, The Capital Weekly and the Bar Harbor Times feature their writers, their neighbors and their businesses and organizations on Knox, Waldo, Capital and MDI Digital Main Streets.