Hannah LaClaire is a business reporter at the Portland Press Herald, covering topics such as real estate and development, entrepreneurship and the cannabis industry among others. Before joining the Press Herald in January 2021, Hannah covered the town of Brunswick for The Times Record. She graduated from the University of Maine with a degree in Journalism, and reported for The Cape Cod Times in Hyannis, Massachusetts, and The Telegraph in Nashua, N.H., before moving back to Maine. In her free time, Hannah enjoys reading, running, cooking (eating) and traveling. She lives in Saco with her husband, her dog Olive and her cat Fred.
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PublishedSeptember 29, 2021
Maine Legislature threatens legal action over federal lobstering restrictions
Lawmakers voted Wednesday to fight the federal government in court over new rules intended to protect endangered North Atlantic right whales.
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PublishedSeptember 17, 2021
Thirty-day countdown starts for Maine lobster industry restrictions to protect right whales
A more than 950-square-mile area of the Gulf of Maine will be off limits to traditional lobstering starting Oct. 18.
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PublishedSeptember 17, 2021
Maine public sector employees are subject to Biden’s vaccine-or-testing mandate
Maine is among 26 states that have agreements with the federal government that require adoption and enforcement of all OSHA standards.
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PublishedSeptember 14, 2021
Maine won’t sue over right whale restrictions, but isn’t giving up fight
Marine Resources Commissioner Patrick Keliher told lawmakers that the state doesn’t have a viable case but will pursue other legal options.
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PublishedSeptember 10, 2021
Maine businesses say vaccine mandate could be hard to implement
While supportive of vaccines, some business leaders say too many key questions remain about the Biden administration’s requirement.
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PublishedSeptember 8, 2021
First recreational cannabis shop opens in Portland’s Old Port
Fire on Fore was the area’s first medical cannabis storefront before converting recently to adult-use sales.
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PublishedSeptember 7, 2021
Maine’s adult-use cannabis sales surpassed $10 million in August
It was the first time the industry has reported monthly sales of at least $10 million since the state’s adult-use market launched in October 2020.
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PublishedSeptember 6, 2021
Portland Downtown proposes using rescue funds for public toilets, water fountains
The group, which advocates for downtown businesses, wants the city to use emergency pandemic cash to provide a different kind of relief.
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PublishedSeptember 2, 2021
Portland’s ImmuCell targeted by New York law firm over FDA setback
The law firm issued a solicitation for plaintiffs after some bad news about a product under development caused the company’s stock price to drop.
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PublishedSeptember 1, 2021
New federal lobstering restrictions spark backlash from industry and elected officials
‘This was the worst-case scenario,’ one Maine lobsterman says of rules to protect endangered whales by seasonally restricting 950 square miles of the Gulf of Maine.
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