Little-known Natasha Alcala takes aim at one of nation’s most hotly contested U.S. Senate seats.
Steve Collins
Columnist
Steve Collins became an opinion columnist for the Maine Trust for Local News in April of 2025. A journalist since 1987, Steve has worked for daily newspapers in New York, Connecticut and Maine and served as the State House reporter for the Sun Journal since 2016. The Maine Press Association named him Maine's Journalist of the Year in 2022. Among his other awards are the Society of Professional Journalists’ 2016 Ethics in Journalism Award, the I.F. Stone Whistle-Blower Award in 2015 and the Bob Wallack Community Journalism Award from the New England Newspaper & Press Association. Steve is a founder and board president of Youth Journalism International, a charity that teaches students around the globe about news writing, media literacy and issues of the day. His wife, Jackie Majerus, serves as its executive director. Born in Massachusetts, he grew up in a military family that took him to Norway, Ohio and Virginia, where he earned a degree in history from the University of Virginia. He and Jackie live in Auburn. They have two adult children, two collies and not enough time.
Posted inMaine
Maine’s state dog may become the Seppala Siberian sled dog
Legislators sympathetic to push to honor the legendary Togo’s descendants
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Posted inAndroscoggin County, Business, Franklin, Lewiston-Auburn, Maine, News, Oxford Hills
Judy Meyer resigns as Sun Journal executive editor
Meyer, who started as a journalist with the paper in 1990, has become a champion of open government access and the public’s right to know.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine
Maine’s coldest case: Police still don’t know who killed Kenny Wood Jr. in Auburn in 1954
Despite years of investigation, authorities have never figured out who murdered the 12-year-old from Gray.
Posted inBusiness, Maine
Maine’s cannabis chief investigated for possible conflict of interest
A legislative panel agrees to look into ties between John Hudak and a firm hired to track marijuana plants from seedling to sale.
Posted inElections, Maine, Politics
A Frenchville Republican challenges Susan Collins
Susan Collins will face at least one primary challenger if she opts to run for reelection in 2026
Posted inbPlus, Maine, New England
The life-threatening encounter with ‘the biggest lobster of them all’
The Lewiston Evening Journal detailed in 1895 a battle between fishermen and an ‘enraged’ supersize lobster.
Posted inbPlus, Maine
A huge lobster fought a Mainer in 1902 and almost won . . . so the story goes
Fisherman Charles McVane said a ‘monster lobster’ attacked him as he lay on a beach and he had to fight for his life.
Posted inbPlus, Maine
Deep-sea diver insists a huge lobster nearly killed him
‘I had never seen anything like it before. It seemed to be several feet high and about 8 feet long and it had on each side an enormous arm.’
Posted inAndroscoggin County, Maine
Sabattus man is the new namesake of North Carolina’s Fort Bragg
World War II Pfc. Roland L. Bragg lived in Maine until his 1999 death and is remembered as a hero. He replaces the fort’s original namesake, Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg.