New Meadows Lobster in Portland has a shipment of lobster stalled in Boston.
Jessica Hall
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Maine’s March unemployment rate 7.1%, down slightly
The unemployment rate was below the statewide average in all three of Maine’s metropolitan areas.
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SWAT-Bot: A safer approach to crime
Maine’s Howe twins apply their technological wizardry to a dangerous aspect of police work.
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Medal of Honor recipient in Maine: Uncomfortable with term ‘hero’
Retired U.S. Navy Capt. Thomas Hudner will lend his name to a Navy destroyer, which is being built at Bath Iron Works.
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General Dynamics in Saco to lay off 110 workers
Demand for the heavy weapons made there has fallen as the U.S. scales back forces in two wars.
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LePage won’t say if he’ll veto minimum wage hike
The governor appears critical of the increase in a chamber speech, but says he’ll review it.
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LePage won’t say whether he’d veto increase in minimum wage
The bill, which would incrementally raise the minimum wage to $9 per hour by 2016, won final House approval Tuesday. In the Senate, lawmakers are still working out the cost of the bill.
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Suit against Hannaford over data breach won’t be class action
The lawsuit stems from the theft of Hannaford customers’ credit card and debit card data.
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Support wanes for upfront payment for Maine liquor contract
The upfront payment of $200 million to repay hospitals has now fallen out of favor with Democrats and Republicans.
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Small-scale cyberattacks an enduring threat in Maine
A Portland data-security expert says the menace to privacy and the economy ‘is real and it is escalating.’