SARANAC LAKE — The 70-unit Saranac Lofts apartment complex on Broadway is rising from the ground fast. After the start of work was delayed last year by the discovery of contaminated soil and the state designating the site as a brownfield, developers Kearney Group say they have cleaned up ...

KEENE VALLEY – Robbi Mecus, a forest ranger with the state Department of Environmental Conservation and a beloved member of the Keene Valley and local LGBTQ-plus community, died in an ice climbing accident in Alaska on Thursday. Mecus, 52, fell approximately 1,000 feet while climbing a steep ...

SARANAC LAKE — North Country Community College and SUNY Plattsburgh have a new dual admission program, giving students in select degree programs a track to get an associate’s degree at NCCC and “seamlessly” transfer to SUNY Plattsburgh to get a bachelor’s degree. The presidents ...

SARANAC LAKE — A majority of its member school districts passed the Franklin-Essex-Hamilton Board of Cooperative Educational Services administrative budget on Monday and reelected three board members. Meanwhile, FEH BOCES District Superintendent Dale Breault Jr. said this year’s budget ...

The state is putting $4.3 million into 36 projects around the Adirondack Park through its Smart Growth Grant program, including two local housing development initiatives, plans for a trailhead and a train station on opposite ends of the Adirondack Rail Trail, as well as parks, trails and ...

SARANAC LAKE — The sorrowful notes of the “Last Post” bugle call of the Australian military hung in the chilly air early Thursday morning as Australian Defense Force Maj. Mathew Stevens recited a line from the poem “For the Fallen” by Laurence Binyon. “In the going down of the ...