A Harpswell Democrat’s bill to levy an additional four percent tax on income earned over $1 million in order to…
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After rejecting a number of bills aimed at repealing or amending Maine’s new Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML) Program…
The Maine House of Representatives considered an additional series of bills during Monday’s session pertaining to the state’s new Paid…
The Maine House narrowly passed a bill on Monday that will make life and work more difficult for Mainers employed…
Flight Deck Brewing in Brunswick is under investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Wage and Hour Division for…
House lawmakers in Augusta rejected two bills during Monday’s session taking aim at Maine’s new Paid Family and Medical Leave…
Maine’s attempt to establish a so-called student wage has been rejected along nearly partisan lines in the State Legislature. Under…
A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that President Donald Trump (R) will temporarily be allowed to continue collecting tariffs under…
Starting this month, the state of Maine has begun rolling out new license plates featuring a nod to the 1901…
President Donald Trump took to Truth Social on Tuesday to celebrate Maine fishermen and to discuss his work to remove…
In the wake of famed Rockland world-champion canner Rita Willey’s golden sardine era, Maine’s shuttered canneries have taken far-divergent directions…
Lawmakers on the Legislature’s tax committee are expected to unanimously reject a bill that would impose an additional four percent…
Governor Janet Mills (D-Maine) is signaling her disapproval of the Trump Administration’s rocky relationship with Canada by using taxpayer funds…
Lawmakers in Augusta have unanimously rejected the Democrat-led effort to eliminate a clause in the state’s new Paid Family and…
Lawmakers have rejected two bills introduced with the intention of expanding employment opportunities for young Mainers. While LD 618 would…
Almost everyone agrees doing business in Maine is much harder than it needs to be. According to the Maine Jobs…
The Legislature’s Veterans and Legal Affairs (VLA) Committee heard a number of regulatory proposals for the cannabis industry on May…
Democratic lawmakers in Augusta have brought forward a bill that looks to enact a statewide prohibition on “dynamic pricing” in…
A Democratic lawmaker has proposed allowing cities and towns throughout Maine to adopt a local option sales tax on adult…
Maine lawmakers are divided over a proposal to do away with the cost-of-living adjustment for the state’s minimum wage. Under…
Lawmakers in Augusta considered a series of bills Thursday afternoon pertaining to the regulation of Maine’s sometimes corybantic cannabis industry.…
By Matthew Cortez As inflation cuts into Mainers’ savings, individuals and businesses are actively seeking ways to protect their hard-earned…
The number of homes available for sale in Maine has increased substantially since last year, and home prices have also…
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Gov. Janet Mills (D) has signed a bipartisan bill into law prohibiting banks from charging customers a fee for opting…
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Imagine two nuclear-armed, global superpowers sleepwalking into a war that would, by conservative estimates, cost at least 10,000 American lives…
Maine’s new Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML) Program was the center of sustained attention Wednesday afternoon in Augusta as…
A Guilford-based business is touting a simple trick to avoid disruptions caused by President Donald Trump’s tariffs and trade negotiations:…
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President Donald Trump moved to reinvigorate the U.S. seafood industry and restore U.S. dominance on Thursday with an executive order…
When anti-Trump Maine businesses called a news conference recently to lobby against the administration’s proposed and imposed tariffs, the fawning…
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) will begin chip production at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company’s (TSMC) facility in Arizona, marking the first…
President Donald Trump announced a 90-day pause on tariffs for roughly 75 countries that did not issue retaliatory tariffs, and…
Lawmakers on the Taxation Committee have unanimously rejected two bills that would have imposed new taxes on the cost of…
The Consensus Economic Forecasting Commission (CEFC) on April 1 revised its economic outlook for Maine, signaling slower growth ahead through…
Maine has been found to have the fourth highest total tax burden in the country, according to a new study…
Could Maine become the site of a radical uptick in black market tobacco sales? If the experience of a nearby…
Republican lawmakers are taking steps to make Maine’s new Paid Family and Medical Leave Program voluntary. Currently, all employers and…
The legislature’s Committee on Labor held a public hearing on Tuesday for a bill from Rep. Valli Geiger (D-Rockland) to…
A new bill introduced this week looks to amend the laws governing Maine’s new Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML)…
A public hearing has been scheduled next week for a bill that aims to support Maine’s hospitality industry by eliminating…
Mainers gathered in Augusta Wednesday for a public hearing on two bills that look to allow cities and towns throughout…
Democrat lawmakers in Maine are looking to impose an additional four percent tax on capital gains earned by residents over…
Democrat lawmakers are looking to add new penalties and enforcement measures to Maine’s Paid Family and Medical Leave Program that…
Democratic lawmakers have proposed replacing Maine’s statewide minimum wage with a regionally based structure tied to an assessment of the…
Already reeling from recent bad news in rankings on national scales when it comes to educational performance and overall tax…
Two Democratic lawmakers are attempting to prevent Maine business owners from having a say in when their employees take leave…
The Maine Department of Labor (MDOL) announced Thursday that twelve insurance policies have been approved as substitutes for the new…
When Heather Sanborn served in the Maine State Legislature not so long ago, she voted in support of granting credits…
The Maine State Legislature’s Government Oversight Committee voted unanimously on Friday to investigate a possible conflict of interest between Director…
As you prepare your annual return, you may already be sensing what a national financial website has found for yet…
A defense contractor that supplies parts for American military aircraft and advises the U.S. government on supply chain security is…
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…