The proposal – which is balanced, does not raise taxes and leaves the Rainy Day Fund untouched – continues the Governor’s free community college initiative & invests in health care, housing, and infrastructure…

MaineHousing is pleased to announce its Homeownership Department has set a new record for the……

A referendum campaign backed by the parent company of Central Maine Power is hoping to qualify for next November’s ballot in an effort to counter a second campaign to create a consumer-owned utility in the state…

From lobster to big UMaine money, here’s what Maine gets in the federal budget bill…

Nonfarm wage and salary jobs increased by 3,000 to 645,100, the highest level on record; the unemployment rate was little changed at 3.7 percent; and labor force participation decreased to……

Gov. Mills and Maine’s top Senate Republican attacked each other Monday after the failure of a heating aid bill that would’ve sent $450 to nearly 900k Mainers.…

This boycott of Maine’s best-known export strikes at the livelihoods of over 5,000 Mainers employed in the lobster-fishery and thousands more on the processing and distribution ends of the business.…

In preparation for the new year, the Maine Department of Labor is reminding employers of upcoming labor law changes, such as updates to minimum wage and……

The director of Maine Housing is reiterating support for an energy assistance bill that stalled in the Legislature last week, saying the issue isn’t whether his agency has money to help low-income families but how much oil or k1 that money will buy.…

Forgoing the standard process and skipping public hearings requires two-thirds of the Legislature to support the package, which means Republicans have the power to force hearings for the bill…

SmartAsset recently published its 2022 Cost of Living Calculator which charts the average cost of living and per capita income of every county in the United States……

A team of federal, state and University of Maine geologists said it has found a rare deposit of potentially valuable minerals on part of Pennington Mountain in Aroostook County.…

The “Right to Know” Advisory committee, a legislative body that deliberates on matters concerning access to government records, heard testimony Thursday regarding alleged abuses by citizens of the law.…

Rising unemployment in an environment of strong job gains occasionally occurs from increased labor force participation as the positive hiring environment prompts some people to enter the labor force. That is not what preliminary estimates have portrayed since summer. How should the contrary indications from these two surveys be interpreted?…

The Portland Planning Board is recommending that the city adopt zoning changes requested by the developers of a new graduate school and research center in order to facilitate its construction at the former B&M Baked Beans factory site.…

…after 16 years of operating in Maine, and nearly $40 million in federal funds, the company still has no tidal turbines producing power in Eastport.…

Ongoing efforts to preserve Maine’s 207 area code have resulted in an extension of about 15 months from the previous exhaustion date prediction of the fourth quarter of 2025.…

Brunswick will spend $4 million to buy 283 acres from a developer that hoped to build a large-scale housing project. The land deal would kill the project……

The development of the plan began in 2020, months after Weyerhaeuser pulled the plug on the former plan to build home lots and resorts.…

In Maine, a state commission has said they want $182 million per year in taxpayer funding to accommodate ERA benefit recipients, an unknown number of which are non-residents currently living in hotels and motels — mostly in southern Maine — with the ERA program picking up the tab.…