SAUGERTIES — Lawyers who have been battling the Cuomo administration over whether restaurants and other venues can host large weddings have filed a federal class action lawsuit on the issue. And while the fight began in western New York’s Erie County, one of the initial plaintiffs in ...

TUPPER LAKE — Two Clarkson graduates living in Tupper Lake have applied for a patent on their method of extracting melanin from fungi. They are looking to become wholesale providers of the pigment, which is finding increased use in biotechnology. Garrett Kopp owns Birch Boys, a chaga ...

SARANAC LAKE — On July 31st, Point Positive Inc. held its biannual pitch session with vetted entrepreneurs from the North Country: DMax Plasma, Kilcoyne Farms, and Northern Power and Light. Point Positive is an “angel investment” firm based in Saranac Lake that since 2014 has been ...

SARANAC LAKE — The new location of Hex & Hop Brewing, on Broadway in Saranac Lake, looks less like a taproom than a speakeasy. A tiny brick storefront with a crimson door in a former pickle shop, Saranac Lake’s latest bar is the opposite of the first Hex & Hop in Bloomingdale, ...

Jesse Ingall sorted through apples in a storage area at Grisamore Farms in Locke and put them in bags to be sold to customers. “It takes some time to go through all of them, but it’s worth it to separate good apples from the not-so-good ones,” he said Tuesday afternoon. He had spent ...

LAKE PLACID — More than 100 short-term vacation rental properties in Lake Placid remain unregistered. Property owners who don’t apply for a permit soon face fines for noncompliance. The North Elba Town Council and Lake Placid Village Board of Trustees adopted a law regulating ...