New York’s 21st Congressional District race has been pared down to three candidates, but at one time there were 13 contenders for the North Country’s Congress seat, 10 of them Democrats. Some of these candidates are now working with the competitor who beat them out, some are busy ...

Neil Woodworth has spent the better part of three decades working for the Adirondack Mountain Club, and as the club reaches milestone after milestone, Woodworth is now seeking his own replacement. As the executive director and lead counsel for the 30,000-member group, which also goes by ...

LAKE PLACID — Every fall, North Country School harvests its chickens. On Tuesday, after 18 months of feeding them, cleaning their coops and sometimes providing medical attention, the staff and students of this agriculture-focused boarding school were ready to harvest 70 birds for meat ...

Driving has made me quite anxious since getting lost in the dark corners of northern Pennsylvania. I’d been halfway through my migration to Saranac Lake, caught at a truck stop in the rain. I’d been stopped at every other gas station, breathing and trying to channel energy from the 1987 ...

Twenty-one years and 42 days ago, five lives were forever changed in a murder that stunned the Lake Placid and Tupper Lake communities. One life was cut short, two were destined for prison — one for life, the other possibly so — and two children lost their mother and father in a single ...

LAKE PLACID — Amanda Cassidy marched up the stairs of her home in a pair of tan issued combat boots her son brought home. They were actually for his stepdad, but Amanda and her husband Seann happen to have to same shoe size. At the top of the stairs, posted on the wall, are a slew of ...