The median U.S. home price edged up 1.3% from January last year to $359,000.
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Buttigieg urges safety changes after fiery Ohio derailment
The transportation secretary wants the nation’s freight railroads to immediately act to improve safety while regulators try to strengthen safety rules.
Waterville’s Inland Hospital to partner on ‘immersive learning’ center that simulates health care conditions
Purdue Global School of Nursing is partnering with Northern Light Inland Hospital in Waterville to build the innovative learning center next to the hospital.
Supreme Court weighs Google’s liability in ISIS terror case
The justices seemed concerned about upending the internet in their interpretation of a 1996 law that shields Google, Twitter, Facebook and other companies from lawsuits over content posted on their sites by others.
Working: Claude Marichal, master machinist at Elmet Technologies
Four decades — and many jobs — at one building.
From scourge to sauce? Fish sauce may be the answer to stopping the invasive green crab
Working with scientists, a local chef has developed an Asian fish sauce from the crabs. It’s local, pungent and could be one way to reduce the crabs’ numbers.
Bird flu costs pile up as outbreak enters second year
Only Hawaii, Louisiana and West Virginia have yet to report a case of the disease.
Bird flu costs pile up as outbreak enters second year
Only Hawaii, Louisiana and West Virginia have yet to report a case of the disease.
GHM Agency hires account manager
WATERVILLE – Melissa Davenport of Skowhegan has joined the business insurance team as an account manager at GHM Agency. Davenport has nearly two decades of insurance industry experience, having worked as a workers compensation adjuster in Connecticut and for GHM once previously, from 2005-19, also as an account manager in GHM’s business insurance division, according […]