February 22, 2016 EditionEdition

Chuck Hays, president and CEO of MaineGeneral Health Services, the state's third-largest health care system, has no trouble explaining why it's good business for employers to take a proactive role in helping their workers stay healthy.

We've all seen disruptive innovation — and increased funding — in hot sectors like biotech, composite materials, software and communications. But what about innovation in the legacy sectors like fossil fuels, manufacturing, higher education and transportation? That's a lot trickier.

For the better part of 2015, Gov. Paul LePage steadfastly refused to issue more than $11 million in Land for Maine's Future bonds approved by Maine voters in ballot questions dating back to 2010.

Supported by a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the University of New Englands' new health informatics program, is UNE's first “competency-based” degree offering.

It's not often at a business publication that we come across quotes that seem to tell the...

New hiresAndroscoggin Bank in Lewiston hired Steven English as vice president and director of financial services. English...

I have written in the past about creating an online media room. The most essential element of...

Shawnee Peak, which was established in 1938 and is Maine's third-largest ski area, has 220 acres and more than 40 trails plus, with snowmaking equipment to cover most of it. The Bridgton resort sees 120,000 to 140,000 skiers per year.

Students in Maine want the economy to improve, and they may be the ones with the key...

Maine's crowdfunding law, which was heralded as a boon for startups when it went into effect on Jan. 1, 2015, has yielded no funding-raisings in its first year.

At Sabre Yachts in Raymond, boatbuilding is going gangbusters, a situation largely attributed to the continuous development of new models that use the latest technologies but they are competing with other boatbuilders — and other industries — for a limited pool of qualified workers.