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A glass of cognac is pictured on a bar in Manhattan in a November 2015 file photo.

See how state officials want to change the price of Maine liquors

Electricity Maine insurer doesn’t want to pay to fight customers’ class-action suit

The insurer for electricity seller Electricity Maine says it doesn’t have to pay for the company to defend a class-action lawsuit, and it wants a judge to agree.

A man sorts lobsters at Ready Seafood on Thursday April 28, 2016, in Portland, Maine. China has become a large market for Maine lobster.

Maine lobstermen, wholesalers worry Trump could ruin access to Asian markets

“The market seems endless, but I do absolutely watch China-U.S. relations. The fragility of these relations has potentially huge repercussions for our industry.”

A U.S. company offers to implant chips in its employees

The company is expecting 50 of its employees to voluntarily sign up for the implants.

Catalyst Paper Corp. wants to use two taxpayer-backed incentive programs to attract investors in its Rumford mill, where it wants to add a machine to make tissue paper. The company said it's part of a “transformation strategy” that so far has involved reducing its costs by about 15 percent.

Mill says it has major buyer lined up for tissue paper, taxpayer help would support 62 jobs

The company said the project would allow it to take advantage of a growing market for the tissue paper, and even has a “major paper merchant” lined up.

A report by economist Chuck Lawton estimated the job impacts of Catalyst's Rumford mill adding a tissue machine. The company needed to show the project would create or retain at least 200 jobs, as a direct or indirect result of the investment, in order to get as much as $40 million from investors.

How 25 jobs becomes nearly 2,000 jobs

Catalyst Paper projects a new tissue-making operation in Rumford will support thousands of jobs — a projection necessary for getting access to taxpayer money it can use to attract investors.

This image of a proposed redevelopment of the east side of Saco Island was posted online by the City of Saco.

Developers plan condos, hotel and restaurant for Maine island property

Saco Island, located in the Saco River on the south side of the city, was once a busy factory district.

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Mayor Ethan Strimling speaks to reporters after giving his State of the City address in Portland on Monday night.

Portland mayor wants to require developers to include more low-income housing

Residential neighbors of Gammon Landscaping, located on York Street in York Harbor, say the business is way too intensive for the area and differs from an excavating business that had operated on the site. They will argue their case before the Board of Appeals Wednesday.

Local landscaper says neighbor is a ‘bully’ who wants to shut him down

Workers leave at the end of their shift at Verso Mill in Jay.

Verso paper mill in Jay makes 120 layoffs permanent

Rock of Ages was the final Penobscot Theatre Company show of the 2015-2016 season

Report: Bangor art, cultural nonprofits generate millions in economic activity

George Thibodeau putts on a green at Hidden Meadows Golf Course in Old Town in 2013.

Old Town golf course to celebrate 20th anniversary next month

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New research from the Pew Charitable Trusts shows that small- to medium-sized businesses — those with five to 250 employees — are least likely to offer retirement-savings plans.

Americans’ retirement benefits slashed by a quarter

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan speaks with reporters about the forthcoming 2018 budget at the Republican National Committee in Washington, July 18, 2017.

Paul Ryan just made Trump’s agenda a lot harder to pass

The Portland Press Herald and Maine Today Media offices in One City Center in Portland.

Owner of Portland Press Herald to purchase Lewiston Sun Journal

Chipotle shuts Virginia restaurant on norovirus worries, shares fall

Chipotle’s stock closed down 4.3 percent, or $17.02, at $374.98 on Tuesday.

Nasdaq hits record on Netflix boost; Dow dragged by Goldman

The CBOE Volatility index ticked up to end at 9.89 on its fourth consecutive close below 10.

Bluenose Inn general manager Kent Leonard, right, moves some furniture to access a phone terminal as he helps Leslie Rodriques of Kingston, Jamaica, in her seasonal apartment near the Bluenose Inn in Bar Harbor Tuesday, May 20, 2008. Rodriques, a housekeeper at the inn, is among a handful of seasonal employees participating in the U.S. H-2B program who come to the U.S. to supplement labor shortages in seasonal nonagricultural businesses.

Maine tourism industry says more foreign help better late than never

A 50-milliliter bottle of Fireball Whisky sits on the ground by Route 1 in Orland in this 2014 photo.

Maine to raise price of nips and other cheap spirits

The Libra Foundation, a nonprofit economic development foundation, will be turning the former Brothers auto dealership in Dover-Foxcroft into a sports complex as part of plans to revitalize the local economy.

Plan to revitalize poor Maine county includes indoor hockey rink

Wall Street ends flat; Netflix jumps after the bell

U.S. stocks closed little changed in low volume on Monday as gains in utilities and consumer stocks offset declines in healthcare.

A man inserts his debit card, equipped with an EMV chip, into an EMV reader while making a purchase at a Home Depot store in Burbank, California, Sept. 23, 2015.

The plan to make chip credit cards less annoying

Bluenose Inn General Manager Kent Leonard (right) talks with seasonal bartender Marvin Marshall of Kingston, Jamaica, while making rounds at the Bar Harbor hotel complex, May 20, 2008.

Federal officials order 15,000 new visas for low-wage seasonal workers

Russell Greenberg of Waltham, Mass., collects signatures in West Market Square in Bangor for "an act to allow slot machines or a casino in York county," according to the petition Maine residents are being asked to sign.

Maine casino campaign to hand over documents in ethics probe

Maine town: Lawn business doesn’t have enough lawn to be business

A Planning Board decision stated he does not have enough property to meet the town’s minimum lot size requirements.

The Lincoln Paper and Tissue LLC mill as seen on Thursday, Dec. 12, 2013.

Former Lincoln mill manager will lead early cleanup of hazardous, radioactive waste

The USS Sampson sails away from Bath Iron Works.

Maine regulators offer up $2.5 million to manufacturers who use lots of energy

Lumber in a Maine woodlot.

One town’s effort to save Maine’s forest economy reflects a statewide hope

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