The Municipal Waste Solutions facility in Hampden has hired Gary Hartmann as chief operating officer. With over 20 years of experience in the waste management industry, Hartmann will oversee the ...

The free Island Explorer shuttle bus that serves Acadia National Park and surrounding communities carried its 10 millionth passenger on Wednesday — a milestone in the service’s 25-year history.

This week's Friday Food Insider rounds up a selection of foodie business news from southern Maine and the midcoast.

Oct. 25 will mark the first-year anniversary of the Lewiston mass shooting, which claimed 18 lives and wounded 13 others. In the immediate aftermath of the tragedy, the Lewiston community and ...

Just a few months after unveiling a proposal to build more than 100 housing units in Portland — half of which would meet affordability criteria — GreenMars Real Estate wants to build a second ...

After considering a proposal to convert a former middle school into a residential development, the South Portland City Council recently approved a $74 million municipal campus proposal for the ...

A Brunswick capital management organization has received $65 million in federal money to deploy as tax credits for economic development projects in rural communities across Maine and nationwide.

A just-released roster of the country's best colleges and universities, published annually by U.S. News & World Report, contains many familiar names. But where some Maine schools show up in the ...

L.L.Bean Inc. said this week it signed a wholesale deal with Von Maur Department Store, a Davenport, Iowa-based retail chain. Starting this fall, the Freeport outfitter’s merchandise ...

Maulian Bryant will succeed the alliance’s first executive director, John Dieffenbacher-Krall, who will retire at the end of 2024.

Two years after its multimillion-dollar restoration, a hotel designed to evoke 1960s York Beach surf culture is going up for auction next month, along with another hotel and an undeveloped lot ...

A growing optics company in Portland won approval of a $1 million loan from the Finance Authority of Maine, and will use the money to pay for new construction that's expected to help retain 10 ...