TUPPER LAKE — A non-resident nurse at Mercy Living Center in Tupper Lake tested positive for COVID-19 two weeks ago. After three rounds of COVID-19 testing, all of the nursing home’s staff and residents have tested negative. Mercy Living Center Director Madeline Toliver, speaking to the ...

The Essex County Department of Motor Vehicles satellite office in Lake Placid will be closed for the next few days. A staff member there tested positive for COVID-19, and a second staffer is in quarantine, county Clerk Joseph Provoncha confirmed Thursday. Lake Placid’s DMV is located in ...

SARANAC LAKE — Adirondack Health is reinstating its one-visitor-per-patient policy starting Monday. The nonprofit organization — which oversees Saranac Lake’s Adirondack Medical Center, the Lake Placid Health and Medical Fitness Center and the Mercy Living Center in Tupper Lake — ...

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced that his administration will require that nursing home staff be vaccinated against COVID-19 as a condition for those facilities to continue receiving federal Medicare and Medicaid funding. Biden unveiled the new policy Wednesday ...

MISSION, Kan. — Many overwhelmed hospitals, with no beds to offer, are putting critically ill COVID-19 patients on planes, helicopters and ambulances and sending them hundreds of miles to far-flung states for treatment. The surge in the delta variant of the virus, combined with low ...

WASHINGTON — U.S. health officials Wednesday announced plans to dispense COVID-19 booster shots to all Americans to shore up their protection amid the surging delta variant and signs that the vaccines’ effectiveness is slipping. The plan, as outlined by the chief of the Centers for ...