Channa Steinmetz

The Trump administration is paying energy developer Invenergy $765 million in taxpayer dollars to abandon four offshore wind leases, including two in the Gulf of Maine, escalating its campaign against an industry that experts say could lower electricity costs and create thousands of jobs in Maine. “Nationwide electricity prices have risen 16% since President Trump

Mainers observed the fourth anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health decision last week, as the Planned Parenthood Action Fund announced earlier this month that they were endorsing Graham Platner in his race for U.S. Senate. “Mainers deserve a senator they can trust to have their backs at every turn. It

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner has a narrow lead over incumbent Sen. Susan Collins, according to a New York Times/Portland Press Herald/Siena poll released earlier this week. The survey of 608 likely Maine voters found Platner leading Collins 49% to 47%, though the race remains within the poll's 4.8 percentage point margin of error.

The member-led board of the Maine People's Alliance (of which Beacon is a project) has endorsed Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Troy Jackson in his race against Sen. Susan Collins, along with Democratic gubernatorial nominee Hannah Pingree, U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree in the 1st Congressional District, and Matt Dunlap in the 2nd Congressional District. “Troy has

One of Sen. Susan Collins’ most infamous votes was her 2018 decision to confirm Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who played a key role in overturning Roe v. Wade. But Collins, who has claimed to be a “pro-choice” Republican, has made several other decisive votes against reproductive rights. After a draft Supreme Court opinion revealed

Maine physicians are urging Sen. Susan Collins to answer for her record on abortion rights and health care as Congress prepares to leave Washington for its month-long August recess. During a virtual press conference Wednesday, the doctors explained how Collins' votes on the Supreme Court, prescription drug prices and Affordable Care Act subsidies have made

Standing outside Sen. Susan Collins’ Biddeford office Tuesday, Fernanda McLaughlin had a message for the Republican senator who voted to give immigration enforcement agencies another $70 billion. “Please stop funding fear and death.” McLaughlin was among more than 150 protesters demanding Collins take responsibility for supporting ICE as federal immigration agents continue to operate with

Sen. Mike Tipping (D-Orono) is renewing an effort to give Mainers more control over repairing their appliances and electronic devices after a similar proposal narrowly did not pass in the Legislature earlier this year. Tipping resubmitted legislation Thursday that would establish a “right to repair” for appliances and electronics in Maine. A previous version passed

Thirty-five days after an ICE agent shot and killed Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Biddeford, federal officials have yet to provide his family or the public with basic answers about his death. “Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero should be alive today,” Rep. Chellie Pingree said Monday during a congressional hearing on the shooting. “His family deserves

Augusta voters will decide this November whether to limit annual lot rent increases at the city’s mobile home parks, after residents gathered enough signatures to put a rent stabilization ordinance on the ballot. The proposed ordinance would cap annual lot rent increases at either 3% or the rate of inflation, whichever is lower. Park owners