public advocate

If confirmed by the Maine Senate, Heather Sanborn would take over from Bill Harwood in a job whose primary responsibility is representing the interests of utility ratepayers and consumers in regulatory and policy proceedings.

The added cost would be paid for through rate increases, following multiple major storms last year.

Utility crews are hard at work to continue power restoration efforts in the wake of a powerful wind and rain storm that swept through the state in the…

AUGUSTA, Maine — A bill by a Maine lawmaker whose son heads a utility that's butted heads with the state's public advocate wants to put the advocate's…