The wording of the citizens’ initiative question entitled “An Act To Create the Pine Tree Power Company, a Nonprofit, Customer-owned Utility” will be:…

Winter is the best time to spot, clip and destroy the caterpillars lying dormant in their winter webs. Web removal prevents more caterpillars from emerging, thus reducing the risk of toxic hairs……

The requests are for projects of statewide significance, community conservation, and working forests and build on……

The MaineHousing Outlook Report 2023 includes several key metrics and analysis from 2022 used to forecast which factors will help and or hurt affordable housing development in 2023.…

Nonfarm wage and salary jobs decreased by 2,300 to 644,600, following a large upward revision to the November estimate. The number of jobs in December was the second highest on……

The proposed referendum targets automobile diagnostic data that’s transmitted wirelessly to vehicle manufacturers — information that independent shops cannot access.…

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?…