The troubled Aroostook Centre and Bangor malls received some good news as JC Penney recently renewed its lease at both facilities for multiple years, according to the management for both malls.
A couple days after Maine voters rejected a tax increase to fund universal home care, a new study found that long-term care costs in the state rose during the past year, with the cost of both homemaker and home health aide services showing the highest increases.
Maine’s 11 Lowe’s stores, including those in Presque Isle and the Bangor area, will remain open as the home improvement retail chain said Monday it will shut 20 underperforming U.S. stores and another 31 in Canada.
One out of five Mainers is 65 or older, as is the case in the nation’s other oldest states, Florida and West Virginia. But elder age groups can differ dramatically in their activities, a new U.S. Census Bureau study shows
The fight for equal pay continues globally and at home, where Maine women make 82 cents for each $1 made by the state’s male residents, a new study shows.
The unemployment rate in Maine ticked up a slight 0.1 percentage point in September, making the Pine Tree State one of only four states in the nation to see higher unemployment, new government statistics released Friday show.
Maine Harvest Credit Project said Monday that it has raised the $2.4 million it needs to become chartered as the Pine Tree State’s 56th credit union.
An Irving Oil spokesperson told the head of the state’s Governor’s Energy Office that the Canadian company doesn’t expect any broad-based supply issues following an explosion Monday at a refinery in Saint John, New Brunswick.
The average cost of heating fuel in Maine continued to climb this week, fueled primarily by price speculation ahead of a second round of U.S. economic sanctions against Iran scheduled to take effect Nov. 4.
The effect of the explosion Monday morning at an Irving refinery in Saint John, New Brunswick, on gas and heating oil prices remains unknown, although the Governor’s Energy Office in Maine is watching developments closely because the state relies heavily on that plant for energy.
