SALT LAKE CITY — One of Utah’s last “dry” communities appeared Wednesday on track to maintain its eight-decade prohibition on alcohol sales after voters rejected a measure to allow sales that proponents said would boost tourism and opponents said would threaten the small city’s way of life.
AUGUSTA, Maine (WABI) Gregory Mineo is the director of the Maine Bureau of Alcoholic Beverages and Lottery Operations in Augusta. He says locally made alcohol products are becoming more and more popular state-wide.
Municipally operated liquor stores in Minnesota saw record sales in 2016 but also a retreat in profits, according to an annual analysis released Tuesday.
The Maine House voted Tuesday to sustain Gov. Paul LePage's veto of a bill that would put in place the legal framework for retail sales of recreational marijuana.
The state of Ohio is about to get a shipment from the Old Rip Van Winkle distillery, a delivery that will include the rarest of the rare Pappy Van Winkle 23-year.
BLANDING, Utah — The rural Utah city of Blanding, one of the last "dry" communities in the Mormon-majority state, will ask voters Tuesday whether to allow beer and wine sales in town for the first time in more than 80 years.
BREXIT would allow alcohol minimum pricing in Scotland if the policy is blocked by the UK's highest court, according to former Scottish Health Secretary Alex Neil.
QUITMAN, MISS. - Opponents of legalizing alcohol sales in a Mississippi county are gathering to pray that the county remains dry.
Liquor sales in Virginia continue to break records.
The Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control reported Thursday that liquor sales for the fiscal year that ended June 30 set a record. In fact, it was the 19th straight record-breaking year.
There are currently eight completely dry counties in the state of Mississippi. But Clarke County could be taken off of that list soon.
Next Tuesday the county will vote on legalizing the sale of alcohol, something it has never done before.
Eddie Fulton, the mayor of Quitman, has been the leader in the push to legalize alcohol in Clarke County.