Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor has received $255,000 from U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to support research into substance use disorder.

Since 2006, the Specialty Crop Block Grant Program has awarded nearly $6 million in Maine to support the growing number of specialty crop producers who are selling into local and regional markets. The program provides federal funding to projects identified as critical at the local level. Projects should enhance the competitiveness of Maine-grown specialty crops.

Tyler Technologies Inc., which has more than 800 employees in Maine across its offices in Bangor, Falmouth, Portland, and Yarmouth (shown above), where the company’s ERP and Schools Division is based in a new $28 million 95,000-square-foot campus that opened a year ago. The company reported double-digit growth in total revenues for both the fourth quarter and full year in 2018.

Governor Janet Mills announced today that the State of Maine will not participate in the Outer Continental Shelf Governors Coalition (OCSGC). In a letter to OCSGC Chair, Alabama Governor Kay Ivey, Governor Mills wrote that the organization’s “work promoting the expansion of offshore oil and gas drilling is incompatible with Maine’s interests.” Governor Mills emphasized Maine’s bipartisan opposition to offshore oil and gas drilling and her commitment to instead protecting Maine’s coastline, marine resources, and ocean economy.

Passive house construction — super-insulated energy efficient design — is catching on in Maine, but passive house retrofit of historic buildings hasn’t.

The University of New England and the University of Southern Maine announced an agreement today that will make it easier for students from USM’s Department of Biological Science to apply to UNE’s College of Pharmacy.

The mayors of Portland and South Portland voiced their opposition Wednesday to a proposed bill that would block municipalities from prohibiting short-term rentals such as Airbnb.

Supporters of the measure to amend the state constitution say out-of-state special interest groups are using the referendum process to raise taxes with ballot questions that voters don’t understand.

POLAND — The Ricker Memorial Library board of trustees wants to “gauge interest” from residents on whether to expand, renovate or keep the facility as is.

The governor signs on to a deal that would give Maine $258 million in benefits in exchange for a permit to build the 145-mile project to send power from Canada to Massachusetts.

The Genesis Community Loan Fund, a Brunswick-based lender, was awarded $1.165 million through the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Community Development Financial Institutions Fund.

U.S. Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Angus King, I-Maine, have signed on as cosponsors of bipartisan legislation that supports employers assisting employees in paying off their student loan debt.

Officials hope to move the Sweatt-Winter Child Care and Early Education Center into 274 Front St., a former medical call center, by the end of the summer.

Councilors will also vote to update business loan programs.

A pair of conservation groups says it is purchasing the forestland.

Restoring the simple and meaningful 1901 design would be a great way to mark our bicentennial.

Gov. Janet Mills Thursday signed an executive order ending a year-old moratorium on wind turbine permits.

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration has chosen ConnectME as one of eight initial partner states to broaden and update the national broadband availability map.

Thursday night, the RSU 73 board of directors hired Robert Webster as interim superintendent.