Few accidents were reported Friday as plowing contractors stayed busy and schools and businesses from Richmond to Kingfield called off classes for a third day this week.

Many schools remained closed, but state offices and businesses reopened after Tuesday’s massive storm dumped more than a foot of snow across the region.

Fishing on the Kennebec River has rebounded this year, keeping shacks occupied, but concern remains for the fishery and trouble may loom for it next year.

Proposals by Wilton, Westbrook lawmakers would fund well testing and remediation for low-income homeowners on the heels of a study that linked arsenic to lower IQs schoolchildren.

The jail in Augusta is one of two chronically overcrowded county jails in Maine, and with a lack of funding, there is no easy solution.

Dozens of vehicles reportedly slid off roads in much of central Maine on Sunday afternoon, with crashes reported from Hallowell to Somerset County.