As Maine Wire reporter Edward Tomic detailed on Friday, agents from the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry (DACF)…
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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The developers behind the controversial Yard South project in South Portland have withdrawn their application for special zoning permissions and…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…
On Tuesday, the Maine Legislature sustained Gov. Janet Mills’ veto of a bill that would have placed restrictions on the…
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday that total nonfarm payroll employment in March rose by 303,000, with the…
The Sanctuary Inn, located in downtown Ellsworth, bills itself as a place for recovering drug addicts, people experiencing homelessness, and…
A Maine banking executive says that for the United States, “evolving to a cashless environment” should be a priority because…
All members of the Maine State Legislature’s Innovation, Development, Economic Advancement and Business (IDEA) Committee have supported the passage of…
U.S. Sen. Susan Collins is urging federal bureaucrats to avoid reclassifying the potato as a vegetable, a move which could…
A Chinese national living in the Guangdong Province, China, became the proud owner of a “fixer upper” in Penobscot County…
The proliferation of Asian Transnational Criminal Organizations (TCOs) in America — especially illicit drug trafficking groups operated by Chinese nationals…
In an unexpected development that could spell ongoing challenges for the U.S. economy, the U.S. Labor Department reported Thursday that…
Big Picture: A major bill that would overhaul Maine’s marijuana regulations is moving through the State House, with $100s of…
John Barnett, longtime employee of aircraft manufacturer Boeing who had turned whistleblower, was found dead from a gunshot wound in…
The last of four Dick’s Sporting Goods locations in Maine has stopped the sale of all firearms in the state,…
Maine lawmakers have approved a bill prohibiting many entities — including schools, grocery stores, and small businesses — from sending…
Maine’s new Director of Labor Standards wants to change the state’s Bureau of Labor Standards (BLS) into an enforcement agency,…
Following a mysterious cyberattack, Maine pharmacies have been instructed to fill prescriptions of MaineCare members without the ability to verify…
Republican lawmakers in Washington, D.C., are advancing an effort to ward off the potential threat of a Central Bank Digital…
Maine politicians announced Tuesday that the state has been awarded $10 million in taxpayer funding to subsidize the installation of…
Google’s parent company, Alphabet, lost roughly $90 billion in market value on Monday after the disastrous launch of its “Gemini”…
Early Thursday morning, thousands of cell customers reported that their phones were stuck on “SOS only” mode, meaning that they…
The Maine Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is poised to levy a $250,000 fine against the company responsible for Worcester…
MaineHousing is launching a pilot program that will help older homeowners list their spare rooms for rent online, an effort…
Three Maine airports have received a combined $18,024,800 in federal funding from the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Fiscal Year 2024…
The Maine State Legislature’s Judiciary Committee has voted nine-to-zero against a bill that would have amended the Maine Human Rights…
Maine lawmakers are considering a bill that would institute a statewide consumer products rule — dubbed the “right to repair”…
Maine Sen. Eric Brakey (R-Androscoggin) has scored a victory in his fight against the implementation of legislation that would pave…
The Maine State Senate rejected a bill Tuesday aimed at extending search warrant requirements to cover a wide range of…