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.

When Rob Edgerley, founder and CEO of Maine Life Real Estate saw a “hottest towns” real estate sales list for another state a few years ago, he thought it might be fun to do one for Maine.

Maine’s craft brewing industry is concerned that sales could go flat during the federal government shutdown because the agency that processes licenses and approves labels for out-of-state beer sales has been closed since the shutdown began three weeks ago.

Gov. Janet Mills proposes an $8 billion plan that would increase General Fund spending 11%, saying Maine can afford to put more money into schools, public safety and municipal revenue sharing.

Plans call for a lumberyard and a showroom.

In confidential documents, the power company and its partners offer incentives over 40 years if regulators approve the 145-mile project through western Maine.

Maine Public Utilities Commission has scheduled a settlement conference for Tuesday on Central Maine Power’s proposal to create a 145-mile transmission line through western Maine in order to deliver hydro-power from Hydro Quebec to electricity customers in Massachusetts.

The grants are made possible by the Maine Coastal Program, Department of Marine Resources, which provides funding through Maine’s federal coastal zone management award from the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration. Each project involves regional or local-level partnerships and each grantee provides a minimum of 25% in matching funds or services.

The bill, which will be considered by the Legislature, would use low-interest revenue bonds to buy the transmission and distribution assets of Maine’s two largest for-profit utilities.