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As promised while when route to the Super Bowl on Sunday afternoon, U.S. President Donald Trump announced increased tariffs on…
Does it make sense to get rid of cents? President Donald Trump ordered U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent…
Maine lawmakers are slated to consider creating protections for workers that will limit how American businesses can use emerging monitoring…
An automotive trade association based out of Washington D.C. has sued Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey over the enforcement of…
A bipartisan group of five New Hampshire state legislators put forward a bill calling on the federal government to declare…
U.S. President Donald Trump and Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum spoke on Monday morning and forged a temporary agreement to delay…
Democrat lawmakers in Augusta have introduced a bill that would impose a three percent sales tax on hotel rentals in…
The Maine Department of Labor (MDOL) released two guides Monday for employers looking to opt out of the state’s new…
Republican lawmakers have proposed creating a minimum “student wage” in Maine, allowing employers to pay some high school students a…
A group of Democratic lawmakers have put forward a plan to restructure Maine’s income tax brackets, a proposal that will…
The Maine State Chamber of Commerce and Bath Iron Works (BIW) have sued the Maine Department of Labor (MDOL) over…
Even as Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) is looking to close Maine’s yawning $450 million FY 26-27 budget gap and…
Maine’s chief cannabis regulator said Wednesday that the Office of Cannabis Policy (OCP) is aware that it’s been issuing licenses…
Maine lawmakers have proposed doing away with the cost-of-living adjustment for the state’s minimum wage this legislative session. Under the…
Maine leaders have decided that the state will not be increasing the minimum legal catch size for lobsters this July…
A universal basic income study published in November found that paying low-income Americans an average of $492 a month led…
More than 80 cannabis industry stakeholders gathered Friday in Augusta to address the myriad challenges facing Maine’s adult-use and medical…
Maine’s Democratic leaders held a press conference in Bath on Thursday to tout the beginning of a new program that…
Beginning on Wednesday, January 1, Maine’s minimum wage will go up to $14.65 per hour — a fifty cent increase…
Maine’s unemployment rate has increased slightly since October, rising to 3.1 percent. Despite this, unemployment in Maine still came in…
The Maine Department of Labor (MDOL) released a report this week exploring the state’s projected job outlook through 2032, outlining…
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) unilaterally decided to codify a previously temporary expansion of work authorization rules for…
Several cryptocurrency stocks gained, while bitcoin surged ahead, following President-elect Donald Trump’s Wednesday announcement nominating Paul Atkins as chair to…
The Maine Department of Labor (MDOL) released Wednesday the final rules for the state’s new Paid Family and Medical Leave…
Gov. Janet Mills (D) announced Tuesday that applications are now open for a second round of funding from the Business…
As Maine Wire reporter Edward Tomic detailed on Friday, agents from the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry (DACF)…
President-elect Donald Trump took to social media on Monday to announce his plan to impose massive tariffs on China, Mexico,…
A Franklin County man who was charged in an alleged marijuana conspiracy is taking his case to the U.S. Supreme…
Tom’s of Maine — a popular toothpaste brand celebrated for it’s use of all-natural ingredients — has violated federal rules…
Friday, a federal judge in Texas blocked the United States Department of Labor (DOL) from increasing the maximum salary threshold…
Dozens of investment advisors warned America’s biggest corporations Friday that their diversity programs will be a liability under the incoming…
The Cape Elizabeth Town Council voted Wednesday night in favor of directing the Town Manager to offer the Cookie Jar…
The developers behind the controversial Yard South project in South Portland have withdrawn their application for special zoning permissions and…
In business since the 1950s, Cookie Jar Bakery in Cape Elizabeth is now fighting to retain use of the four…
Ford Motor Company lost another $1.2 billion on electric vehicles (EV) in the third quarter, according to a Monday press…
The Maine Department of Labor (MDOL) announced Monday that Maine’s unemployment employer tax schedule, which supports the state’s unemployment trust…
Maine’s September unemployment rate and labor force participation rate remained largely unchanged in comparison to recent months, according to the…
The Maine Governor’s Energy Office (GEO) was selected by the federal Department of Energy (DOE) to receive a $65 million…
The second public comment period for Maine’s new Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML) Program closed Monday after receiving nearly…
The International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) has agreed to suspend its strike for a massive pay increase, just three days after…
Businesses throughout Maine are preparing for the state to implement its new payroll tax and a complex series of rules…
The City of Portland is set to conduct a revaluation of residential properties over the course of next year, the…
The Maine Department of Labor (MDOL) announced Monday that it has negotiated the recovery of over $20,000 owed collectively to…
Maine’s August unemployment rate and labor force participation rate remained largely unchanged in comparison to recent months, according to the…
A new poll from Pan Atlantic Research — a Portland-based independent marketing research and consulting firm — revealed this month…
The Maine Department of Labor (MDOL) announced Wednesday that, in compliance with state law, Maine’s minimum wage will be increased…
Google is back in the courtroom this week as its parent company Alphabet faces allegations from the federal Department of…
Volvo announced Wednesday that it has scaled back its plans to make only electric vehicles (EVs) by 2030. Instead, the…
Last week, the Maine Department of Labor (MDOL) unveiled an updated set of regulations for the state’s new Paid Family…
Ford Motors announced Wednesday that it is walking back several of its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies, making it…
Bill Belichick, the longtime head coach of the New England Patriots foot team, has cited Massachusetts’ income surtax as a…
The Portland City Council voted earlier this week against placing two wage-related proposals on the ballot this November. The first…
Conservative American consumers have become a massive problem for left-wing corporate leaders thanks in large part to conservative activist Robby…
Ford Motor Co. announced Wednesday that it will be shifting to a new strategy for the development of electric vehicles…
Harley-Davidson, the famous motorcycle brand, has issued a statement recanting its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) company policies after it…
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) job growth numbers have been revised down once again under the Biden-Harris Administration, this…
Vice President Kamala Harris will unveil a plan to use the federal government to control grocery stores prices at Friday…
The price Mainers will pay for tobacco-free nicotine pouches, a popular alternative to chewing tobacco and cigarettes, has begun to…
A report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (N.Y. Fed) published last week revealed a new all-time high…
A new report from The Financial Times has revealed the disastrous state of the various industrial and infrastructure projects often…
Vice President Kamala Harris, facing questions and criticisms about the policies she’s running on as the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee,…
As of Friday, the Maine Department of Labor (MDOL) will have the authority to order employers to pay back wages,…
A federal judge ruled Monday that Google has illegally maintained a monopoly over the search engine industry through anti-competitive business…
The July jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has revealed the highest unemployment rate in almost three…
The controversial Yard South project in South Portland submitted its application to the city for a contract zone Wednesday. If…
Nineteen Maine children have accidentally ingested cannabis products in 2024, according to a new report from a government panel, while…
Former President Donald Trump has called for abolishing another tax, this time aiming at older voters with calls to stop…
The public comment period for a set of rules proposed by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has now…
U.S. Senator from Maine Angus King (I) on Monday joined four of his colleagues on a letter pressing OpenAI for…
Compared to June of last year, home sales in Maine have decreased by more than 10 percent, while prices have…
The Maine Department of Labor (MDOL) released the state’s June employment numbers Friday, revealing that while Maine’s unemployment rate is…
A catastrophic software error from the cybersecurity company CrowdStrike led to outages in major systems globally, grounding flights, impacting hospitals,…
Freeport-based L.L. Bean, one of Maine’s most iconic outdoors brands, has been sued in federal court by Skechers for allegedly…
Gov. Janet Mills (D) announced Wednesday that Maine technology companies may now apply for $7 million worth of federal taxpayers’…
A newly released internal email from the former lead of one of Microsoft’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) teams show…
The Portland Development Corporation (PDC), a division of the city’s Housing and Economic Development Department that is in charge of…
Members of the Maine Public Utilities Commission (PUC) have recommended that a formal investigation not be opened into the Casco…
Maxwell’s Farm of Cape Elizabeth announced Sunday that 2024 marked their final season after more than 50 years in business.…
On Tuesday, Gov. Janet Mills (D-Maine) announced the recipients of $2.9 million in Domestic Trade Grants for Maine businesses intended…
Liberal media outlets have celebrated new data from the Department of Labor (DOL) that showed an unexpected growth in job…
The hardware giant Tractor Supply Company has promised to stop its LGBT pride and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs…
California’s job market isn’t as rosy as official state and federal employment figures suggested in 2023, according to a bombshell…
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a 2017 policy imposing a one-time tax on certain shareholders regardless of whether or…
A group of Congressional Republicans are taking steps to block a proposed federal regulatory scheme that would require the tracking…
Minimum wage hikes for fast food workers touted by California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) and Democratic state lawmakers have caused…
A&D Mortgage, a Florida-based lender, announced Monday that it has increased the maximum loan limits for Foreign National and Foreign…
A new report from the Maine Department of Labor (MDOL) has revealed that the rise of remote work in recent…
Maine has the ninth worst economy in the country, according to a recent study by personal finance website WalletHub. This…
Just days after the First Circuit allowed for Bar Harbor’s daily 1,000 passenger limit on cruise ships to remain in…
The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed a lawsuit against Ticketmaster and its parent company Live Nation for…
The U.S. Department of the Interior has announced a series of public meetings following its Proposed Sale Notice (PSN) for…
Dozens of Mainers have signed onto a petition asking the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to investigate the rate hikes recently…
The Maine Department of Labor (MDOL) released the state’s April employment numbers Friday, revealing little change from March and a…
A recent study has found that electric vehicles (EVs) cost 63.6 percent more per 1,000 miles driven each year compared…
The legal battle against generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies continues as a group of eight newspapers files a lawsuit against…
U.S. Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) called out President Joe Biden’s (D) Fiscal Year 2025 budget for not doing “nearly enough…
Lawmakers in Augusta voted nearly-unanimously this past Friday to advance a bill guaranteeing Mainers the right to repair their electronic…
A Republican bill passed the Maine House of Representatives late Thursday evening that will result in tax increases on high-earners…
Maine’s House of Representatives voted Tuesday to require that farmworkers be paid the state minimum wage despite concerns that artificially…