Maine's official day of celebrating sweet, sticky maple is almost here, and producers around the state are getting ready for enthusiastic crowds of maple syrup fans. Read More
The closure, announced Friday by the Maine Department of Labor, leaves 12 locations in Maine for the coffee and doughnut chain. Read More
Unemployment in Maine remained below 4 percent for the 38th straight month, continuing a record stretch. Read More
A hospital in Lewiston is one of 71 medical centers nationwide, and the only one in Maine, to test a procedure that it said holds promise of helping millions of Americans with blocked heart valves get treatment without requiring surgery. Read More
Gerald Nessmann, a Sebec resident who helps oversee the hospital as a member of its publicly elected board, filed a lawsuit last fall seeking to halt the merger and make more information about it publicly available. Read More
While the Fed is predicting slower growth in 2019, Chairman Jerome Powell indicated that there was little worry about a recession. Read More
Ford’s first wave of autonomous vehicles will be produced at a new center in southeast Michigan, as part of a $900 million investment to reshape its manufacturing operations in the state. Read More
Business Events
The final Maine Technology User’s Group webinar of the 2018-19 season will feature Kent Goodrow of Systems Engineering and Nate Flynn of Residential Mortgage Services (RMS) discuss the nuts and bolts of creating and working with Microsoft Teams at the RMS implementation, including: what happens when you create… Read More
BAR HARBOR — The Bar Harbor Chamber of Commerce will hold its annual job fair from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, April 27, at the Bar Harbor Municipal Building, 93 Cottage Street. Member businesses will be meeting candidates and accepting applications for the upcoming season. Read More
Premium Choice Broadband is nearing the final stages of its latest project to bring high-speed fiber internet connections to rural Maine. The company has invested $2 million in private funds and installed more than 40 miles of fiber-optic cable connecting Dover-Foxcroft and downtown Monson with what… Read More
PORTLAND — Verrill Dana, LLP recently announced the elevation of executive board member, Regina Hurley, to chair of the firm’s executive board, and the election of new board member Barbara Young. With the election of Young, Verrill’s executive board is now led by a majority of women, significantly… Read More
A complaint by customers seeking a class-action lawsuit against Central Maine Power for alleged high billing is on hold until the end of October. Read More
The Wednesday vote was one of several approvals that are required before the 25-bed facility can join the Northern Light system. Read More
The effort is the latest thrust in the give-and-take over what veteran midcoast lobsterman John Powers called an “onslaught” of new aquaculture licenses “resulting in lost fishing grounds and income.” Read More
This reminder from the old policy still stands, though: Be civil. Stay on topic. Don't abuse people. Don’t embarrass your mother. Read More
A district court judge in California has dismissed the third of four lawsuits filed against L.L. Bean after it changed its lifetime return policy in February 2018. Read More
The restaurateur hoping to open the pizzeria is skeptical the town will ever allow him to open after 10 years of permitting battles. Read More
A second Ada’s Kitchen location will be opening on Congress Street in Portland this summer. Read More
A group of drivers with the Kennebec Valley Community Action Partners program in Augusta voted overwhelmingly Monday to form a union and affiliate with the International Association of Machinists District Lodge 4. Read More
Mainers preparing their 2018 taxes are finding out just how President Donald Trump’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is affecting them in its inaugural year, and not everyone is happy. Read More
Members of the largest union at Bath Iron Works on Saturday passed a vote of no confidence in their president and withdrew charges alleging misconduct against the local chief steward. Read More
Members of the lobster industry from the United States and Canada will meet in Maine's largest city next month for a meeting about the state of the business. Read More
Angus King and Jared Golden hope the legislation will "level the playing field for the logging trade with other agricultural fields." Read More
Fishermen hope again to be paid more than $2,000 per pound for the baby eels that swim into their nets this spring, but some things will be different for the licensed dealers who buy them. Read More
Maine's cod fishery, once one of the most lucrative in the Northeast, has declined to the point that it had its least valuable year in more than a half-century in 2018. Read More
Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Patrick Gallagher was just 23 when he was killed in action in DaLoc near Da Nang, Vietnam, just one day before his tour of duty was due to end. Read More
An investment firm from Boston is making a bid to buy a popular Maine ski resort than has been closed for four years. Read More
The civilian labor force unemployment rate rose in Maine’s three largest metropolitan areas during the past couple months but remained around the national average of 4 percent in January. Read More
Two new businesses in downtown Bangor — one that’s already open and another that’s opening in just a few weeks — both focus on natural options for health, wellness and beauty. Read More
Maine exports increased 4 percent, compared with 2017, but it was less than in 2016. Read More
L.L. Bean’s net revenue nudged up 1 percent in 2018 to $1.6 billion, the company said Friday. Read More
