Using U.S. Census data, economists determine which Maine school districts parents with young children most often move to — and which ones they most often leave.

AUGUSTA — A fire at a house on Spring Road was extinguished quickly Friday but not before causing significant damage.

Firefighters stopped a house fire at 283 Spring Road in Augusta this afternoon, the city’s fire chief said.

HALLOWELL — Like most candy stores, Scrummy Afters is light, bright and full of stripes, dots and colors.

HALLOWELL — The committee studying what to do about a home for the fire department is finding itself divided over the past and the future.

AUGUSTA — Seeing images of cities inundated by floods, homes swept away or burned down and hungry people lined up for food in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, Jani Clark couldn’t stay put in Maine.

AUGUSTA — One of the University of Maine at Augusta’s first academic research publications, and an example of the instrument it explores, have arrived in Maine via a roundabout route: through the Ivory Coast and Germany.