PLATTSBURGH — There’s hope for a winter sports season in Section VII, but there’s still a lot of work to be done before student-athletes are competing. The Clinton County Health Department announced Friday afternoon via a press release that it will permit high-risk sports, which ...

ALBANY — The state Department of Health commissioner, the governor and his top aides all brushed aside a report Friday from the state attorney general’s office revealing the DOH underreported the state’s total number of COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes by nearly half. Gov. Andrew ...

ALBANY — New York’s attorney general has joined calls for the state to loosen a partial immunity from lawsuits and criminal prosecutions it had granted to nursing homes at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic last spring. In a report issued Thursday, Attorney General Letitia James, a ...

MALONE — Franklin County on Friday shared three different ways seniors can get transportation assistance to their vaccination appointments. - Option 1 - The Franklin County Public Transportation bus system is available with on-demand runs within Tupper Lake, Saranac Lake or ...

The first one-shot COVID-19 vaccine provides good protection against the illness, Johnson & Johnson reported in a key study released Friday, offering the world a potentially important new tool as it races to stay ahead of the rapidly mutating virus. The pharmaceutical giant's ...

LAKE PLACID — And then there were five. On Thursday, the National Women’s Hockey League announced that the Metropolitan Riveters, one of six teams playing a scheduled two-week season at the Olympic Center in Lake Placid, has withdrawn. And just like so many instances across the world of ...