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For budding entrepreneurs, location matters as towns and cities vary widely – from $100 to $40,000 – in costs for setting up shop.

The few cafes, stores and venues in Portland that still require masks say it's to protect their staff and put concerned customers at ease.

The family-run business in Cologne can no longer afford rising energy prices resulting from Russia’s war in Ukraine.

The British pound sees its biggest one-day drop in 2.5 years after the U.K.’s new government outlined its plans.

Displays and demonstrations now include electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, a hoverbike, a hoverboard and a jet suit.

Denmark’s government says a temporary ban on mink breeding will expire Jan. 1.

World Bank President David Malpass came under criticism for his remarks earlier this week regarding climate change.

The selling capped another rough week on Wall Street, leaving the major indexes with their fifth weekly loss in six weeks.

The DOJ sued to block U.S. Sugar from acquiring its rival, Imperial Sugar Company.

Maine was set to receive about $11 million as part of a nearly $440 million settlement between the e-cigarette manufacturer and 33 states and territories.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the office that developed the earliest technology undergirding the internet, has hired crypto intelligence firm Inca Digital to conduct the year-long project.

Employees are coming back to offices, retail shops and other brick-and-mortar workplaces. But it's not easy to find a parking space there.

Is a buffet necessary, when hand sanitizers and barriers between players at table games are adapted across the U.S.?

Scammers allegedly filed jobless claims in multiple states and used over 205,000 Social Security numbers of dead people.

A new USDA effort would include $100 million toward helping growers learn new techniques.

The losses are broad and concentrated among retailers and technology, financial and industrial stocks.

The automatic reversal system may not react correctly after detecting an obstruction.

The SEC says the aircraft maker and its CEO knew the flight system posed a safety issue.

An industry report said jobs with life sciences companies in the state have an average salary of more than $100,000.

The retail giants will begin rolling out deals the first week in October in a bid to draw in more cautious and cash-strapped consumers.

The move will allow the organization to increase staffing and urgent care access in Lewiston, according to a press release from Central Maine Healthcare.

The Federal Reserve also forecast more jumbo-size hikes to come, raising their benchmark rate to roughly 4.4 percent by year's end.

The fund was established during construction of the trans-Alaska pipeline in the 1970s and now is worth $73.6 billion.

The two propositions pit tribes against online gambling companies.

Among possible measures: limits on traps, reductions in the number of lines and a longer seasonal closure of lobstering waters.

The number of sales fell by double digits, and the median sale price increased by about the same percentage. Mortgage rates are climbing and could be a wild card.

By raising borrowing rates, the Fed makes it costlier to take out a loan. Consumers and businesses then presumably borrow and spend less, cooling the economy and slowing inflation.

Interest rate increases intended to stem inflation are making it increasingly costly for consumers and businesses to borrow – for homes, autos and other purchases.

The popular restaurant and music venue on Free Street is located in an area plagued by construction road closures since spring.

Meanwhile, the Trump Organization is set to go on trial in October in a criminal case alleging that it schemed to give untaxed perks to senior executives.

Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes slowed in August for the seventh month in a row.

The nation's largest retailer and largest private employer said it's in a stronger staffing position heading into the holidays than last year and is now focusing on hiring only seasonal workers, rather than permanent workers.

Also, the Talking Food in Maine series returns next week to Damariscotta's Lincoln Theater, closing night comes for Katahdin Restaurant in the Arts District, and Leeward and Twelve restaurants get lots of love from The New York Times.

The job cuts follow years of struggle at the San Francisco-based retailer, which operates its namesake stores as well as the Old Navy, Banana Republic and Athleta chains.

The multiuse Rock Row complex already includes many retail businesses, but is beginning the next step toward a 2.7 million-square-foot footprint.

Stocks closed lower on Wall Street ahead of a key decision on interest rates by the Federal Reserve.

In 2020, 30% of all U.S. traffic deaths were alcohol-related .

Gov. Janet Mills says the state offered its support to try to keep the mill open, but company leaders said there was nothing they could do.

A decade since the company came to the state, enthusiasm for the energy provider has been dampened by high costs and slow service expansion.

She says her priorities are working to be part of the Trans-Pacific Partnership and making trade agreements with India and Saudi Arabia.

Gun control advocates have argued that separately categorizing store sales could potentially flag a surge of suspicious sales activity to safety officials.

There's a difference between a company meeting its own net-zero plan and contributing to efforts to meet the planet's.

The new registry is hoped to empower groups to hold governments accountable when issuing licenses for fossil fuel extraction.

At the Clinton Global Initiative, which reconvened Monday for the first time since 2016, all participants will be expected to announce or develop a partnership.

Some food truck operators said the program hasn't worked for them, citing among other things a lack of visibility and foot traffic at the new truck parking area on Cutter Street.

The People's United Bank Building, overlooking Monument Square, might offer residential units under the owners' new plan.

The new Hannaford will be the second in Scarborough, where the supermarket chain is headquartered.

The Maine Lobstermen's Association says the new regulations are based on faulty science, and is now attempting to take that argument to a higher court.

The European Central Bank says it intends to prioritize those companies doing more to reveal and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The uninsured rate declined from 8% to 5.7% from 2019-21 after Maine expanded Medicaid, and is now about half what it was a decade ago.

By law companies can no longer rely just on a positive blood test, so they're looking for signs like glassy eyes and excessive yawning.

The downturn comes amid new requirements for patients and appears to be having more of an impact on smaller businesses.