The developer of one of the biggest housing projects in city history has proposed another one: an $8.7 million, 51-unit apartment complex he hopes to finish building by the end of next year. Read More
A mill that once employed 6,000 workers and supplied textiles to Union Army soldiers during the Civil War — but has sat empty for almost two decades — is on the brink of being repurposed with three new tenants that could bring about 200 jobs to Lewiston. Read More
Nearly a month after a local contractor seemingly vanished overnight, a multi-agency investigation is trying to understand the scope of what is shaping up to be the largest case of alleged contractor fraud in midcoast Maine. Read More
About three years after its expansion into New Hampshire and Vermont, a Bar Harbor-based bank has decided to close five branches in those states. Read More
Bangor Savings Bank and University of Maine athletics have announced a new, five-year sponsorship agreement. Read More
Two researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a third from Harvard University won the 2019 Nobel Prize in economics on Monday for groundbreaking research into what works and what doesn't in the fight to reduce global poverty. Read More
Exports to the United States, China's biggest foreign market, fell 21.9 percent to $36.5 billion. Read More
Business Events
WATERVILLE — Maine Technology Users Group will hold its “Peers & Beers” 4:30-6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 23, at Waterville Brewing Company, Hathaway Creative Center, 10 Water St., Suite 111. To register, visit mtug.org. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes… Read More
ELLSWORTH — Union River Center for Innovation will hold “Avoiding Legal Pitfalls” talk 5:30-7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 24, at Ellsworth City Hall Auditorium, 1 City Hall Plaza. Many entrepreneurs have an idea for a product or service, but do not know how to appropriately protect themselves from legal… Read More
AUGUSTA – All divisions of The F.A. Peabody Company were recently named as one of the 2019 Best Places to Work in Maine. The awards program was created in 2006 and is a project of the Society for Human Resource Management – Maine State Council and Best Companies… Read More
BANGOR — OTELCO is pleased to welcome new employees in its Maine market. Joseph Arsenault joins OTELCO as a technical support technician in the company’s Bangor office. Arsenault attended the University of Maine for Electrical Engineering and worked with Network Maine in a student position for the… Read More
Olympia Sports, a Westbrook-based chain, may close some of its more than 150 stores, a spokesperson for the company said Tuesday. Read More
Local restaurateur Thomas Shanos announced last week that Whiskey River Smokehouse, his new barbecue restaurant, will open in late 2019 or early 2020, in a location adjacent to Brewer’s Riverwalk. Read More
State animal welfare investigators are looking into the alleged cruel treatment of Atlantic salmon at a Bingham fish hatchery run by a Canadian company that raises the fish for food. Read More
Voters approved legal adult-use marijuana at the polls in November 2016, and the road to legal sales has been long and bumpy. Read More
Victor News, a convenience store on Park Street, opened in 1905 and has stayed in family hands for four generations. Read More
Central Aroostook area employers questioned Maine Department of Labor officials Wednesday on how the state’s new employee earned paid leave statute would affect the migrant and other temporary workers they depend on to harvest crops. Read More
“The lawsuit alone is very wearing on the soul. It’s very heavy." Read More
Grand Rounds said it plans to greatly expand its office space in Lewiston and boost its employee count for the second time since it located in Maine three years ago. Read More
Executive Editor Ed Pierce announced Tuesday that Biddeford’s Journal Tribune will cease publication after its Oct. 12 run. Read More
The head of the Canadian company that plans to buy Emera Maine said Monday that the company won’t have to borrow the full purchase price of $959 million to complete the deal. Read More
A contractor has examined part of the former Verso Paper mill site in Bucksport to ensure that a proposed $180 million Atlantic salmon farm does not disturb archaeological remains that might be there. Read More
Household incomes dropped 3.3 percent from 2017 to 2018 based on the Census Bureau's American Community Survey. Read More
The 35-year-old retailer will close 350 stores as it pulls its business from 40 countries. About half of the closures will be in U.S. Read More
As restaurant owners, many of whom face tight margins, wrestle with the decision to slash or consolidate kitchen positions rather than pay higher wages, the cannabis industry is another way for cooks to make money with their skills. Read More
The widely noticed marketing initiative created tension in its first year, as doctors questioned how it would help them better serve patients and a credit rating agency singled it out as a "significant" cost to the health system as it looks to repay debts and borrow more money. Read More
The menu includes pulled pork, brisket, pit-pulled chicken sandwiches and the "hillbilly sundae." Read More
A New Hampshire company has won a nearly $60 million contract to build a new facility at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine. Read More
Small businesses need to find a way to differentiate their services from the competition. Apps are one way for small businesses to create a new experience for customers while also creating a new way to stay connected. Apps are booming, with over… Read More
A Bangor ambulance service has agreed to pay $138,285 to settle allegations that it improperly charged the federal Medicare program for transporting patients by ambulance when they didn’t need the emergency service. Read More
A company that spent years trying to bring two resorts, 1,000 second home lots, a golf course and other tourist attractions to the Moosehead Lake region appears to have finally given up on those efforts. Read More
