Gov. Janet Mills is calling for targeted tax increases on cigarettes and cannabis as part of her proposed $11.7 billion budget for the final two years of her administration, setting the stage for ...

Maine buyers had more homes to choose from in December and prices continued to edge up, with the median sales price back at $400,000. Across the state, 1,178 single-family homes sold last month, a ...

Norway Savings Bank has promoted Jacob Ouellette to vice president and investment officer within the bank’s asset management group. The Saco resident has been an asset management group team ...

Len Libby Candies in Scarborough dates back nearly a century, but its workforce faces a modern challenge. Most are part-time workers, with flexible hours — and that’s typically a group that ...

Wolfden Resources Corp. — a mining exploration and development company based in Toronto, Ontario — has agreed to sell a 3,770-acre parcel from its 6,862-acre Penobscot County timberland for $1 ...

A journalist-turned-finance-professional is making another unusual turn in his career with the development of an indoor mini-golf course, bar and restaurant in Portland’s East Bayside neighborhood.

Dry Dock Portland, a seafood restaurant in Portland, is getting ready to relaunch with an award-winning chef at the helm. The Luke’s Lobster team leased the mainstay restaurant last fall and ...

Seven years after landing in the coastal Waldo County city of Belfast with a proposal to build a 900,000-square-foot land-based salmon farm, Nordic Aquafarms has abandoned the project. “This ...

ACE advises: Joel Kurtzman, founding editor of Strategy+Business magazine, originated the concept of “thought leadership,” a term which has now taken on buzzword status. A thought leader is a ...

Norway Savings Bank has hired Dawn Mugford as senior vice president of risk. Most recently, Mugford served as executive vice president and chief risk officer at Rockland Trust Bank, based in ...

In March 2024, Gretchen Johnson succeeded Anne Heros as executive director of the Center for Grieving Children, a Portland-based nonprofit founded in 1987. She hosted Mainebiz one quiet morning ...

Mainebiz offers 25 predictions about Maine's economy in 2025.