Penobscot Community Health Care plans to open a new pediatric center in the former Verizon Wireless call center at 6 Telcom Drive in Bangor in the fall of 2019. Read More
West Forks plantation, a town of 56 residents, voted Thursday night by a majority not to support Central Maine Power’s project to transmit electricity from Canada to Massachusetts via Maine. Read More
As temperatures dipped Monday across the state, Maine’s new pro ice hockey team started selling single game tickets on Sept. 10. Read More
But the tariffs instigated by the U.S.-China trade war tell only part of the story of the high export numbers, U.S. lobster sellers say. Read More
Shortly after this week’s cold snap had some Mainers turning up their thermostats early, the Governor’s Energy Office said Wednesday that average residential fuel prices per gallon already are creeping up this season. Read More
Hussey Seating Co., which already is feeling the bite of earlier Trump administration tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, expects some of its upholstered seats to be hit with an impending third round of tariffs against China. Read More
The effect of China’s retaliatory tariffs on Maine’s lobster industry could be mixed, depending on how a lobster operation is structured, one expert said. Read More
The Maine Public Utilities Commission said Thursday it will hold public witness hearings in Farmington and The Forks Plantation on Sept. 18 to let citizens comment on a proposed hydroelectric transmission line that will run from Canada to Lewiston and through their towns. Read More
A heavy thunderstorm cut power and felled trees around Brunswick and Bridgton on Thursday, the day after porn star Stormy Daniels brought down the house at PT’s Showclub Portland. Read More
“We have grave concerns for the welfare of the citizens and ratepayers should this project be brought to fruition." Read More
While Maine fishermen catch more lobsters than elsewhere in the United States, the state lacks processing facilities for their meat. Read More
Under the Franklin County proposal, the funds would be distributed over a 20-year period. That’s the same amount of time the contracts for building the project will last. Read More
Demand for construction workers is booming, but hiring qualified salaried or hourly workers is tough in Maine and elsewhere in the country, prompting a construction industry group to label the labor shortage a crisis. Read More
Business executives are getting a stronger voice in how medicine is practiced in the nation’s hospitals, causing ripples in a medical system that doctors have run for decades, at times thinking of care before cost or efficiency. Read More
Sales of single-family homes in Maine showed strong gains in both their prices and the number sold in July, according to data released Wednesday by Maine Listings. Read More
Mainers are near the top nationally when it comes to opening their homes to four-legged friends, and Westbrook-based IDEXX Laboratories is expecting an average 10 percent revenue growth each year from now until 2023. Read More
A federal judge in California on Tuesday granted L.L. Bean’s motion to dismiss a potential class action lawsuit against the Maine-based retailer but at the same time gave the plaintiff a chance to amend his complaint. Read More
Home ownership also depended on age. Up to 10 percent fewer people age 44 and younger owned houses last year compared to in 2006. Read More
Retail store Target and its online marketplace Shipt said they will start delivering more than 55,000 groceries, electronics, home goods and essentials to Portland-area residents starting Aug. 21. Read More
The number of companies nationwide owned by women increased 2.8 percent in 2016 over the previous year, but slid 1.8 percent in Maine, recent U.S. Census data show. Read More
