Maine Business Wire News Desk

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The Maine Business Wire News Desk covers openings, closings, deals, hires and the day's business news, written from public reports and checked against its sources before publication.

Maine Business Wire News Desk

Judge Bars ICE From Moving Friendship Store Owner Seized Without Explanation

Up to 95% of Mainers Want a Stock Ban Collins Resists After Her Own Violation

Lincoln Petition Set to Force Vote on Cuts That Could Cost 8 Fire/EMS Jobs

Cut-Rate Planet Fitness Set to Open Beside $60-a-Month Ellsworth Rival

Court Bans Maine Caterer Who Took $145,000 From Wedding Clients

Maine Rail Traffic Could Double by 2050 as State Logs 13 Derailments Since 2023

Judge Blocks 15-Year-Old Deportation Order for Friendship Market Operator

Two Votes Can Decide Matters for 150,000 Penobscot County Residents

$107M I-395 Connector Cuts Heavy-Truck Traffic up to 79% Near Brewer

Orono Downtown Revival Push Starts with Defining 'Downtown'

Platner, Leading Mills In Democratic Primary Polls, Wins Over Jon Stewart

Bangor's Oldest School Building To Close Temporarily Over Asbestos

Democrats Kill Child Welfare Records Bill Hours After Both Chambers Passed It

Swayman Becomes Just The Second UMaine Goalie To Reach Vezina Finals

Skowhegan Board Again Denies Law Firm's TIF Grant Over 'Goal Posts' Fight

In Hallowell, Platner Fans Cheer While a Democrat Plans to Back Collins

Mills Quits Senate Race Over Funding, Clearing Platner's Path to Face Collins

Bar Harbor Panel Votes 9-3 Against $24,000 for July Fourth and Other Events

Platner Deletes Post From Far-Right Account Despite Poll Lead Over Collins

From 20 Workers to 240, Central Maine Motors Taps Thomas College for Training

Mills' Free-College Plan Would Go Permanent but Drop Fee Coverage to Save $2.5M

Platner Fundraised With Health Lobbyists Days Before Vowing to Refuse Their Cash

Collins Honored for Helping Reverse Trump Bid to Shut Down Job Corps

Outdated Equipment Could End Prison's 90-Year Run Making Maine License Plates

Belfast Planning Board Resists Cap on Recreational Cannabis Stores

Brooklyn Man Settles Blind Neighbor's Poisoned-Tree Case for $3,000

Maine Democrats Fight DNC Rule Risking 2028 Convention Seats

Bangor Fills Nine Homelessness Panel Seats After 50-Plus Apply

Bar Harbor Erases Activist's Sidewalk Chalk, Now Weighs New Rules

Convicted Sex Offender Is Paid Greenville Firefighter; His Brother Is Chief

First Test of Maine's Dam Abandonment Law Stalls Over Who Pays

First Fatal Bar Island Stranding in Acadia's History

Nine Midcoast Towns Land Up to $80,000 Each to Fight Storms

St. John Valley Could Get a Free School Rebuild Before State Funding Tightens

Bangor Ethics Board Finds Councilor Mallar at Fault in Rare Ruling

Smoking Lithium Battery Forces Swiss Air Jet To Land In Bangor

Historic Bangor Tavern Building Lists for $2.7M, Over Four Times Assessed Value

Only Grocery Store for Rural Aroostook Towns Heads to Auction Over $662,000 Debt

Pines Church Accuses Hermon Schools of Bias Over Sexuality, Contraception Views

Big Growers Retreat as Locals Race to Save Maine's Blueberry Barrens

UMaine Trustees Extend Malloy's Contract, but Only for One Year

Bangor Home Sales Average $50,000 Below the City's Typical Price

Mills Skips Penobscot Nation Forum, Leaving Stage to Her Two Rivals

Houlton's 126-Year-Old Landmark Building Hits Market for $750,000

Nearly 175 Maine Businesses Close to Protest ICE Despite Collins's All-Clear

Bangor Approved Just 32 New Homes in 2025 as Peers Permitted Far More

Ellsworth Recall Drive Targets 5 of 7 City Councilors

Katahdin Region's Largest Employer Names Insider Finance Chief as CEO

BDN's Bangor Home Sells for $13M, Seven Times Its 2019 Price

Bangor Councilors Earn $2,000 a Year While Portland Pays $9,580

Houlton Nurses Declare No Confidence In CEO After Second Strike

Colby College Sets 2026 Deadline to Rebuild Port Clyde's Fire-Ravaged Wharf

Shah, Democratic Frontrunner, Pledges Day-One Fight With Trump on Costs

Surgeon, Hospital Ordered to Pay $750,000 Over Botched Hip Surgery

No Power, No Plumbing: Maine Island Cabin Asks Nearly $400,000

Held to 7 at Half, McLaughlin Leads Farmington’s Rout of Presque Isle

Northern Maine General’s Financial Woes Send 75 Clients to Aroostook Nonprofit

In Rare Move, Amazon Sends Executive To Defend Maine's Biggest Warehouse

Platner Vastly Outraises Collins, but Spends Nearly as Fast as He Raises It

One of Maine's Last Historic Train Stations, Now a Dispensary, Asks $975,000