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AUGUSTA — Honda Motor Company announced it will cancel the production and development of three electric vehicle (EV) concepts after…
Maine’s congressional delegation has reached out to the Trump Administration seeking support for wild blueberry, potato, and apple farmers, as…
PORTLAND, Maine — The Portland City Council has approved an extension of the city’s moratorium on theater and performance hall…
The familiar Maine department store Renys has now broken even more hearts, going out of business a day earlier than…
A new statewide economic analysis released this month paints a stark picture of prosperity split sharply between the greater Portland…
Google’s parent company, Alphabet, announced on Monday that it will acquire the data center and energy infrastructure company Intersect for…
Maine’s red-hot housing market showed fresh signs of volatility in November, as the statewide median home sale price dropped below…
Some car owners in Maine may now benefit from having joined a 36-state coalition forcing Hyundai and Kia to provide free, hardware-based anti-theft…
In a unanimous vote that underscored deep public skepticism and mounting concerns over transparency, the Lewiston City Council voted Tuesday…
Kelly Hinkle of Columbia Falls has a novel way of celebrating the end of a hard fishing season – by…
The City of Lewiston is preparing to vote next week on whether to approve an artificial intelligence data center at…
Just months after two tragic incidents in which illegal immigrants killed pedestrians while operating under Maine driver’s licenses, the taxpayer-funded…
The top lobbyist for Maine’s lobstering community is again challenging claims the supply is being “overfished.” After a recent meeting…
A routine stop at a fast-food restaurant turned into a question of policy and principle this week after an Augusta…
A Portland cable and internet-service provider is laying off 176 workers from its call center, transitioning their work to other…
Federal regulators voted Thursday to extend a shutdown preventing New England fishermen from catching shrimp. New England fishermen, especially those…
The Maine Department of Labor (MDOL) announced on Wednesday a number of Subway sandwich shop locations throughout the state will…
A citizen’s initiative aimed at ending the sale and production of recreational cannabis in Maine can now begin collecting signatures…
Renys’ decision to close its Congress Street store on December 31 marks more than the end of a 15-year run…
Maine’s unemployment rate held steady in September at 3.2 percent, a figure that remained unchanged from the previous month. Despite…
The Federal Reserve enters its latest policy meeting under the heaviest political and economic pressure in years, with Chair Jerome…
Two out-of-state investment companies that are buying up trailer parks are among six nationwide under congressional scrutiny. The Joint Economic…
U.S. Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) has reached out to members of the Trump Administration urging them to provide relief to…
By Owen McCarthy I grew up in a trailer in Patten, the son of a logger and a lunch lady.…
The Trump administration on Monday rolled out a $12 billion relief package, funded by tariff revenue, aimed at farmers who…
Led by Sen. Susan Collins (R) and Rep. Chellie Pingree (D), Maine’s Congressional delegation has joined together to introduce a…
President Donald Trump took action on Wednesday to repeal the burdensome fuel standards imposed by the Biden Administration that, according…
Maine leaders are sounding alarms over a federal effort to tighten commercial driver’s license rules, but their warnings focus on…
The Zumwalt class of stealth destroyers, built at Bath Iron Works, are under fire from Congress for failed systems, according…
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) is now making relief available to small businesses and private nonprofit (PNP) organizations in…
Portland ushered in the holiday season Friday night as crowds filled Monument Square for the city’s annual tree-lighting ceremony. The…
A full-blown legal fight has broken out between Nova Scotia’s entrenched lobstermen and indigenous fishermen with close relatives in Maine.…
Single-family homes in Cumberland County, Maine became significantly more expensive in October, underscoring a growing inventory and persistent demand in…
The CEO of the Maine Celtics just wrote a real estate check for nearly $60 million. Wycliffe Grousbeck, who heads…
The state’s leading lobster lobby is pushing back against claims that government intervention is an obvious fix for the dwindling…
Maine Senators Susan Collins (R) and Angus King (I) sent a joint letter to several key Trump Administration officials seeking…
A federal appeals court has rejected an appeal from the lobster industry challenging the mandated use of electronic-tracking devices on…
The Maine Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has announced the new standard offer price for Central Maine Power (CMP) customers in…
The U.S. economy added 119,000 nonfarm payroll jobs in September, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data released Thursday morning. The…
Sen. Susan Collins (R) heralded the news on Tuesday that Maine’s $48.4 million plan to expand access to broadband internet…
Art historians had predicted that a portrait previously owned by a Maine billionaire would sell for $150 million. They were…
A Bangor physician was subjected to a barrage of verbal threats connected to his race inside Timber Kitchen and Bar…
The vast majority of Mainers are pessimistic about the projected impact of artificial intelligence (AI) over the next decade according…
A penny for your thought? How about a gift-card for a penny? Grocery chains across the northeast, including in Maine,…
A sprawling national black-market for renting and selling DoorDash accounts has quietly become one of the most widespread and least…
Known for its beautiful foliage, Maine is often a destination during the autumn months for those looking to soak in…
A new report from the Tax Foundation analyzes the burden imposed by states upon their residents, taking into consideration sales…
The board of directors at grocery chain Market Basket is locked in a legal dispute with former CEO Arthur T.…
A sweeping new federal restriction buried deep in Congress’s latest spending bill is poised to wipe out most of America’s…
Three years after getting fried in a devastating fire, Penobscot McCrum, which has harvested and processed Maine potatoes since 1886,…
Let’s see … Maine needs an economic boost, it’s on the Atlantic coast, it already has a major Coast Guard…
The state that supplies 90 percent of the U.S. lobster supply is trying to navigate the waters of an international…
A dizzingly-expensive art collection that belonged to a cosmetics heir and his Maine widow is expected to fetch a half-billion…
A months-long legal campaign by a Canadian ostrich farm to “save” 300 of its birds from government culling has gone…
Maine’s Sen. Susan Collins (R) has asked U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Brooke Rollins to provide disaster assistance to…
Woodland Pulp of Baileyville has announced it is going dark temporarily due to lack of business and in the face…
U.S. Senators Susan Collins (R-ME) and Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) introduced bipartisan legislation Wednesday aimed at protecting American specialty crop farmers…
After many months of negotiations, Northern Light and Anthem have finally agreed upon a new contract, allowing patients to continue…
By Paul T. McCarrier Maine’s October 27 recall of Yani vape cartridges wasn’t a fluke—it was a warning. The Office…
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday in a major challenge to President Donald Trump’s global tariff program, a case…
Voters in Maine’s largest city decisively approved a minimum wage increase on Tuesday, endorsing a city councilor’s proposal to raise…
Saddleback ski area, which underwent a period of tough sledding, has grabbed the No. 1 best place to ski in…
President Donald Trump’s long-standing battle over tariffs — a defining element of his presidency and economic worldview — will face…
The sudden shutdown of Catalina Yachts has hundreds of Cat owners across Maine dumbfounded – and worried. The sailboat manufacturer…
A senior U.S. senator is calling for an investigation into a wedding planning conglomerate used by many young Maine couples.…
How smart would it be to tie the economic fate of Midcoast Maine to Artificial Intelligence (AI)? Some residents of…
The Lewiston Police Department is asking local looters to return items stolen from a condemned convenience store during a Sunday…
With Halloween just a few days away, the latest deadline for Anthem and Northern Light to negotiate a new contract…
Unsafe levels of chlorfenapyr present in cannabis vape cartridges have led the Maine Office of Cannabis Policy to issue a…
A Virginia medical cannabis company has filed a sweeping lawsuit naming DoorDash Inc. among several defendants accused of selling and…
Voters in Portland will head to the polls a week from tomorrow to decide whether to raise the city’s minimum…
A future destroyer to be built by Bath Iron Works will be named for a former Navy secretary and WWII…
Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey (D) joined 38 other Attorneys General in signing a letter Friday that calls on Congress…
Experts suggest that buyers and sellers in Maine’s housing market are on a more level playing field this fall with…
A new analysis by the North Atlantic right whale protectionists actually shows the species thriving, not declining. But as predictable…
Chicken magnate Frank Perdue’s marketing genius killed Belfast, Maine as the Chicken Capital of the World – but his magic…
Maine’s first large-scale AI data center is being planned for the former Loring Air Force Base in Limestone. Developed by…
Pumpkinfest — what has long been a non-political, family-oriented festival of seasonal fun in midcoast towns of Newcastle and Damariscotta…
An experimental electric-plane manufacturer that chose a midcoast Maine airport to debut cutting-edge technology is falling on hard times both…
A fishing boat built in Boothbay that went missing without a trace nearly 100 years ago has finally been located.…
If Maine’s embattled crustaceans are crawling to Canada, the prevailing reason was always thought to be greenhouse-gas oceanic acidification south…
The Senate passed a $878 billion defense policy bill late Thursday by a vote of 77 to 20, advancing legislation…
The bankruptcy of ModivCare, a Colorado-based transportation company contracted to manage MaineCare’s nonemergency medical transportation program, has thrust one of…
As the United States Supreme Court returns to the bench, there are a number of key cases expected to be…
Maine Governor Janet Mills (D) has indicated that she will not enact some of the changes made by federal lawmakers…
Chinese illegal immigrants are obtaining commercial driver’s licenses (CDL) and landing jobs in the U.S. trucking industry with support from…
Ten years after the container ship El Faro sank in 40-foot seas, Rockland will be memorializing crew members who perished…
A Maine mother has filed a lawsuit against the makers of several popular video games, alleging that they profited off…
Although Maine’s unemployment rate has remained steadily low in recent months, the state has begun losing jobs during this same…
Central Maine Power (CMP) — the state’s largest electric utility, serving nearly 650,000 households — is again looking to implement…
The state’s shrimp industry, traditionally known almost as much for its sweet delicacy as Maine lobster, is praying for relief…
The state with already among the highest electric costs nationwide is looking at a massive rate increase by its largest…
Mainers sounded off earlier this week to weigh in on the implementation and administration of the state’s new Paid Family…
A bitter internacine family food fight is fraying the nerves of drama-weary shoppers wondering whether their favorite supermarket is going…
Maine is set to raise its minimum wage is to $15.10 per hour statewide beginning on January 1 of next…
The Maine Legislature’s Health and Human Services (HHS) Committee held a meeting Tuesday afternoon to discuss the state’s relationship with…
The invasive European green crabs taking a toll on New England lobster breeding grounds pose a double-edged threat to Maine’s…
A new $2.2 billion Bath Iron Works contract for another Arleigh Burke destroyer is giving Russian Navy commanders heart palpitations.…
So much for Democrat Gov. Janet Mills’ warning that this summer’s tourism numbers would be a bust due to Trump.…