Greenville

Building a pipeline of trained professionals is essential to Maine’s emergency health care system.

Construction would use an innovative system that combines mass timber, standardized design and a patented hinge assembly system to create timber-frame homes.

A middle-market project is underway in Greenville to build up to 29 homes using mass timber. Employers like Northern Light CA Dean Hospital struggle to recruit and retain staff because there isn’t enough quality, year-round housing.

Across Piscataquis County, employers in sectors from health care to manufacturing and hospitality are improvising to hire and retain employees.

Mainebiz contributing photographer Jim Neuger spends an afternoon on Moosehead Lake's historic "steamship" Katahdin, known to fans as the Kate.

Throughout Piscataquis and Penobscot counties, the housing crisis is not a single-issue challenge, but a constellation of interrelated barriers, according to a report from Eastern Maine Development Corp.

Opechee Construction is teaming up with Maine Course Hospitality Group on the development of an extended-stay hotel in Scarborough.

Northern Light CA Dean Hospital in Greenville is offering a free training program for people who want to pursue a career as a certified nursing assistant.

Northern Forest Center's planned development, on Spruce Street lot near downtown Greenville, is expected to help ease the housing shortage in the Moosehead Lake region.

The replacement of a century-old facility is one of two modernization projects Northern Light Health has undertaken recently.