What happens to a college town when the students disappear? Ithaca, a small upstate New York city nearby gorges and vineyards, is finding out. Most of the 24,000 students at Cornell University and 6,200 more from Ithaca College effectively vanished in March when the coronavirus pandemic ...

LAKE PLACID — After postponing the 2020 Ironman Lake Placid originally scheduled for July 26, a new date of Aug. 30 has been set for the annual race. The announcement was made Thursday in a news release and also posted on the Ironman.com website. The Aug. 30 date, which is just five ...

LAKE PLACID — On June 5, prior to advancing into Phase 3 of New York’s reopening, the Regional Office of Sustainable Tourism sent out a Resident Sentiment Survey to help better gauge the sentiment of Adirondack residents with regard to their comfort level in reopening the economy and ...

NEW YORK — Businesses that violate the state’s COVID-19 reopening rules and guidelines can immediately lose their liquor licenses or be ordered to shut down, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo declared in an executive order Thursday. The mandate strengthens state enforcement to ensure business ...

Some northern New Yorkers bemoaned Tuesday’s long-hinted announcement that the Canada-U.S. border will be closed for a fourth month, until July 21. Others saw it as the right call. Others had mixed feelings. The border closure, intended to slow the spread of the coronavirus, does not ...