Maine retailers plug into online connections to boost their holiday sales

Many Maine companies are looking to the web to augment in-store sales even more than in recent years.

As attitudes, laws around working mothers evolve, BIW installs lactation facilities

To be in compliance with Maine state law, an employer must provide a space, other than a bathroom, for nursing mothers to express breast milk for up to 3 years after childbirth.

Zip! Thwap! Thud! The sounds of outdoor learning

Writer's aim is less than true, but the rewards are great for a day on the archery range.

Mark’s list of L.L.Bean adventures

The L.L.Bean Outdoor Discovery Program offers a wide variety of activities you can go and do. Here's a list of things I would do, or I've already done, or I wouldn't do if you paid me in gold.

L.L. Bean heir and wife donate $1 million to Mercy Hospital

Leon L. Bean's grandson James Gorman and his wife, Maureen Gorman, contributed to the Portland hospital's $20 million relocation campaign.

Catch David Young & The Interstate Kings live at two locations Aug. 10

L.L. Bean to open first Canadian store

The new retail store is part of a larger expansion into America's northern neighbor.

Auburn Mayor Levesque buys former Peck Building in Lewiston

L.L.Bean bought and renovated the Main Street property in the late 1980s and will continue to keep its call center there through a long-term lease, according to its new owner.

L.L.Bean teases summer concert series lineup: Gone West, AJR, Mat Kearney

L.L. Bean restores bonuses for its employees

The Maine-based retailer's board on Friday awarded performance bonuses of 5 percent of pay for workers. after revenues grew by 1 percent.