The Kennebec Journal (KJ) is a six-day morning daily newspaper published in Augusta, Maine.

It covers Augusta and the surrounding capital area, as well as southern Kennebec County.

The Kennebec Journal began publishing as a weekly newspaper in 1825, five years after Maine had become a state.

[5] For much of the 20th century, the Journal (along with its sister papers the Press Herald and Morning Sentinel) was part of Guy Gannett Communications, a family-owned media company based in Maine.

[6] MaineToday Media sold the newspapers to Masthead Maine in 2015,[7] which in turn sold them in 2023 to the National Trust for Local News, a non-profit organization who operates the papers under its subsidiary, the Maine Trust for Local News.