Oxford Casino chooses contractor for $25M expansion

Officials at Oxford Casino say they are close to signing a general contractor for the multimillion dollar expansion, which will include a 106-room hotel and restaurant.

Navigating Medicare billing — and creating rural Maine jobs

Dr. Dan Mingle knew he was onto something when he founded the South Paris-based Mingle Analytics in 2011. Health care costs were spiraling up, and national reimbursers like Medicare were starting to...

$15.5K funding will aid Somerset County tourism, economic development

The Somerset Cultural Planning Committee won two grants totaling $15,500 to craft a tourism plan and boost economic and community development in Somerset County.

$4M Farmington memory care facility creating 30 jobs

Woodlands Senior Living officials marked the groundbreaking of Woodlands Memory Care of Farmington, a $4 million memory care facility that is slated to bring 30 new full-time jobs to the region.

It’s Brewer vs. Rumford for proposed $250M liquefied gas facility

A Boston-based development group is proposing the construction of a new natural gas liquefaction and storage facility, and has its eyes set on either Brewer or Rumford.

Craft beer and more to be featured at Skowhegan festival

The Skowhegan Craft Brew Festival will kick off Sept. 3 with 20 purveyors of craft beer, wine, cider and spirits. It’s the first time for the event and one of the few to span makers of a wide...

$290K in fed grants to support, create 160 jobs

Five Maine organizations have been awarded a total of $290,000 in grant funding through the USDA Rural Development Rural Business Development Grant program to assist in economic development, and the...

It's official: Obama designates north woods national monument

On the eve of the centennial celebration of the National Park Service, the Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument became a reality on Wednesday when President Barack Obama signed it into law.