Maine

Construction problems and cost overruns for a bond-backed project pushed the company into a pre-negotiated Chapter 11 bankruptcy. 

The Maine Turnpike Authority is navigating a rocky road back to the market. 

Mr. Laverty spent most of his life living and working in New York City as a municipal bond underwriter for several Wall Street firms.

Maine voters in Tuesday election shot down a ballot proposal for a public takeover of private electric utility providers.

The Gulf of Maine offers "significant opportunities" for offshore wind energy development, federal authorities announced. That's good news for state officials hoping to tap the technology's potential to meet green energy goals.

Mainers will be asked in November if they want to create a public utility to buy out operations of investor-owned Central Maine Power and Versant Power.

Fernandez was a veteran municipal bond attorney who spent nearly 67 years at Hawkins, Delafield & Wood LLP before his retirement in 2017.

Maine's tax collection season was better than expected, bucking expectations at the threat of looming recession, a state committee told lawmakers.

The move by a Senate committee would pass a baseline budget and put off actions on some of Gov. Janet Mills' new spending proposals.

Maine voters are likely to face measures for a public power takeover of investor-owned utilities, and a debt measure designed to complicate that plan.