Jefferson

The Rockland-based nonprofit works with 120 island and coastal communities to strengthen economies, enhance education and share information and resources.

Recently completed work includes the construction of towers in Buckfield, Charleston, Dexter and Dresden, as well as upgrades in a dozen other Maine communities.

Half of the $2 million the city has from the federal Community Development Block Grant program goes to construction and development; a Jefferson sawmill destroyed by fire last year is open, with help from CDBG money.

Three beverage companies with Maine ties and multi-state operations are focusing not just on the bottom line, but also on ingredients and processes in a highly competitive industry. Costs are higher, making the balance more complicated.

The “Kobe beef of pork” is being saved from the brink of extinction thanks to a group of Maine veterans who are raising them at their farms across the state, in addition to introducing the Hungarian breed of Mangalista pigs to Maine's culinary world.

Harvesters taking oysters or hard-shell clams from the Damariscotta River or buying shellfish from harvesters working on the river are required to attend a training session to help combat Vibrio parahaemolyticus, a bacterium that inhabits brackish water, the Boothbay Register reported.

A farm in Lincoln County is being sued by the federal government over allegations that men were...

Sitting at a picnic table in a clearing on a late winter morning surrounded by 1,000 acres...

A sawmill in Jefferson faces $79,310 in fines following an investigation by federal workplace regulators.The U.S. Department...