Industrials

A Maine paper mill plans to temporarily lay off many of its employees starting this month as it scales back production.

U.S. Steel said Tuesday it will lay off about 750 employees from two plants that make tubular steel, which is used in oil and gas drilling.

A handful of employees at the shuttered Bucksport paper mill will likely remain as caretakers until a metal recycling company takes over the property, the owners said.

Tony Fernandes is more than just the CEO of AirAsia: He's the brash personality and cheerleader-like figure who gives the discount carrier its soul.

Twenty years after the northern spotted owl and salmon practically shut down logging on Northwest national forests, some environmentalists and loggers have become friends by focusing on a shared goal — thinning overgrown forests to prevent catastrophic wildfires.

A subsidiary of defense contractor Lockheed Martin has agreed to pay $27.5 million to resolve allegations that it overbilled the government, federal prosecutors announced Friday.

A union representing some workers at the 84-year-old Verso Paper mill has filed a federal lawsuit to halt the sale of the facility.

The Senate on Tuesday confirmed a new administrator to lead the government's auto safety agency, which faces complaints that regulators bungled two high-profile recalls involving faulty ignition switches and exploding air bags.

U.S. safety regulators say firetruck-maker Sutphen has issued a recall to fix a problem with its aerial ladders.

Some companies looking for welders, machinists and other skilled workers are turning their sights to women.

Gov. Paul LePage's administration said Wednesday that he's concerned about the proposed sale of a Maine paper mill to a Canadian scrap metal recycler and is weighing state actions to ensure the mill remains intact.

The 80-year-old Verso Paper Corp. mill closing this month is being sold for scrap to a Canadian metal recycler for $60 million.

The Commerce Department reports on U.S. factory orders for October.

The chairman of the coal-dependent Crow Nation wants a break from the Obama administration's climate proposal and says the pending rule violates the government's trust responsibility to the Montana tribe.

The closing of Bucksport paper mill will be delayed until the end of December, when more than 500 people are expected to lose their jobs.

A procrastinator's holiday wish come true: Presents ordered at the last minute can now show up under the Christmas tree that same day.

President Obama is nominating National Transportation Safety Board member Mark Rosekind to run the troubled National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

Over the objection of environmental groups and Virginia's governor, a federal management plan released Tuesday will allow a form of natural gas drilling known as fracking to occur in parts of the largest national forest on the East Coast.

State records show dozens of minor or moderate state environmental violations since 2009 at a Houston-area DuPont chemical plant where four people died from toxic fumes over the weekend.

Mississippi appears to be the favored location for a proposed $1.2 billion aluminum mill that would hire 650 or more workers to supply aluminum for auto bodies.