Chellie Pingree

Rape and sexual abuse perpetrated against members of the military by fellow service members have reached epidemic proportions and are a national disgrace. Despite several years of increasing public awareness, these crimes against women and men serving...

Congress is preparing to debate major farm and food policy bills that would likely cut funding to programs used by many low-income Mainers but could separately provide a boost to Maine's thriving local foods movement. Much to the dismay of the nation'...

In 2011, Newsweek published a sobering piece on sexual assaults in the military. The magazine reported that women are more likely to be sexually assaulted by a fellow soldier than to be killed in combat. And, according to the Pentagon, sexual assaults...

Former Maine Sen. Olympia Snowe was all over the media landscape last week promoting her new book, "Fighting for Common Ground: How We Can Fix the Stalemate in Congress." Snowe's suggestions on congressional reforms (among them open primaries and an...

Gov. Paul LePage vetoed his sixth bill of the legislative session Friday afternoon. LD 319 directed Maine Revenue Services to review Maine's conformity with the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement, which is an agreement among several states and...

Maine's U.S. House and Senate members agreed Wednesday that the Internal Revenue Service overstepped its bounds by subjecting conservative groups to more scrutiny, but differed on whether the inquiries were politically motivated. The scandals dominating...

Workers at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery got a reprieve Tuesday from federal budget cuts that will require more than 600,000 civilian defense employees nationwide to take unpaid days off. The Pentagon announced that the Navy's four public...

Maine Rep. Chellie Pingree was among a small group of House and Senate lawmakers who met with top Obama administration officials Thursday morning to discuss the issue of sexual assault in the military. The group met with Obama senior adviser Valerie...

The University of Maine unveiled the floating platform of VolturnUS, a one-of-a-kind offshore wind turbine that officials hope will shape the future of energy in Maine, during a ceremony Wednesday. Later this month, the unit will be disassembled,...

The Federal Aviation Administration has dropped its plan to eliminate overnight air traffic controller shifts at Bangor International Airport, officials said Wednesday. The FAA said previously that it might close about 60 towers across the nation during...

A House committee has advanced a bill named for a Maine woman that aims to help veterans qualify for disability benefits for mental health problems resulting from sexual assaults. The version of the Ruth Moore Act of 2013 that the House Veterans'...

It was a busy week in Washington for Maine's two senators, both of whom played high-profile roles in some of the biggest debates on Capitol Hill. Seeking to address what she dubbed "a manufactured crisis," Republican Sen. Susan Collins was a primary...