There is a coronavirus outbreak at the Essex Center nursing home in Elizabethtown, the Essex County Health Department confirmed Thursday. At least 10 residents and three staff members at the nursing home — which experienced this county’s deadliest coronavirus outbreak to date last year ...

More COVID-19 booster shots may be on the way — but when it’s your turn, you’ll get an extra dose of the original vaccine, not one updated to better match the extra-contagious delta variant. And that has some experts wondering if the booster campaign is a bit of a missed opportunity ...

ALBANY — Nearly two-thirds of New York residents are fully vaccinated against the coronavirus, according to the latest federal statistics. About 12.7 million of New York’s 20 million residents are fully vaccinated, according to data released Saturday by the U.S. Centers for Disease ...

SARANAC LAKE — The Saranac Lake varsity football game against Plattsburgh High School has been postponed because a player on the Saranac Lake football team tested positive for COVID-19. The Champlain Valley Athletic Conference matchup was scheduled for Saturday. The postponement was ...

NEW YORK — Gov. Kathy Hochul and the state attorney general’s office will appeal Tuesday’s decision by a federal judge allowing religious exemptions to New York’s mandate that health workers have at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose, the governor said Wednesday. Seventeen New York ...

The coronavirus is spreading faster in Franklin and Essex counties now than ever before. Since the pandemic began, 4,163 Franklin County residents have tested positive for COVID-19. More than a third of those positive results — 1,298 of them — have been reported within the last ...