The U.S.-Canada border will remain closed for non-essential travel for a 14th month, at least until May 21, to help contain the COVID-19 pandemic. That extension goes right up to the start of Canada’s Victoria Day long weekend, which normally is a time when many Canadians get away to ...
LAKE PLACID — Lake Placid Community Day, an annual event celebrating residents and local organizations, is slated to return this September. Last year’s Community Day was canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic. Because public health restrictions are always changing, it wasn’t ...
The U.S.-Canada border will remain closed for non-essential travel for a 14th month, at least until May 21, to help contain the COVID-19 pandemic. That extension goes right up to the start of Canada’s Victoria Day long weekend, which normally is a time when many Canadians get away to ...
SARANAC LAKE — More than half of Tri-Lakes residents have been at least partially vaccinated, new state and county vaccine data shows. This data from Franklin County Public Health and the state Immunization Information System, shared with the Enterprise on Friday, offers the first public ...
ALBANY — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is allowing more people inside museums, movie theaters and indoor sports arenas as the latest data suggests the state’s vaccination campaign is curbing COVID-19 infection levels. The state recorded just under 43,000 new cases in the seven-day period ...
ALBANY — Struggling restaurants and bars will soon be eligible for millions of dollars in state and federal grants, funds intended to help them rebound from the devastating toll the pandemic took on their businesses. The new state budget includes an $800 million recovery fund aimed at ...
TORONTO — Ontario’s premier retracted restrictions Saturday that banned playgrounds and allowed police to require anyone not at home to explain why they’re out after a backlash from police forces, health officials and the public. The pandemic restrictions imposed by Canada’s most ...
TUPPER LAKE — After more than a year of the State Theater being closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, owner Sally Strasser is excited to start showing movies there again. A big reason why is because the community has been raising money to keep the State open for new movies after two essential ...
A COVID-19 vaccine clinic in Malone today still had 200 slots available as of Thursday afternoon. The clinic, hosted by Franklin County Public Health, is open to everyone over the age of 17. The Moderna vaccine is being administered at the clinic, and it’s not approved for 16 and ...
PLATTSBURGH — Like North Country Chamber of Commerce President Garry Douglas, state Attorney General Letitia James does not like needles. But, also like Douglas, she rolled up her sleeve and got the COVID-19 vaccine because she wants a return to normalcy. That will take 85% of the ...
NEW YORK — New York state health officials will follow federal recommendations and pause the use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, Health Commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker announced Tuesday. After federal health agencies recommended halting the Johnson & Johnson shots so officials ...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. is recommending a "pause" in using the single-dose Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine to investigate reports of potentially dangerous blood clots. In a joint statement Tuesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration ...
The number of active cases of COVID-19 across Franklin County has continued to decline, but the county’s public health director is urging residents to continue following safety precautions to curb the spread of the coronavirus. In the last month, Franklin County’s active case count has ...
ALBANY — After a deadly year in New York’s nursing homes, state lawmakers have passed legislation intended to hold facility operators more accountable for neglect and potentially force them to spend more on patient care. Rules passed in recent days as part of a state budget deal would ...
PORTLAND, Maine — Islamic leaders are using social media, virtual town halls and face-to-face discussions to spread the word that it’s acceptable to be vaccinated for the coronavirus during daily fasting that happens during Ramadan, the most sacred month of the year for ...
PLATTSBURGH — A North Country Chamber of Commerce webinar gathered regional healthcare professionals Wednesday morning and the message was clear: Get the COVID vaccine ASAP. University of Vermont Health Network, Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital Vice President of Population Health and ...
SARANAC LAKE — Adirondack Health will conduct a COVID-19 vaccination clinic open to the public on Monday. The clinic will administer Pfizer vaccine and run from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Annex building behind Adirondack Medical Center, 2233 state Route 86, Saranac Lake. The clinic is open ...
ALBANY — With COVID-19 vaccine eligibility expanded to all New Yorkers at least 16 years old as of Tuesday, the State University of New York is launching its own distribution program. SUNY Chancellor James Malatras on Tuesday announced the effort to deliver thousands of single-dose ...
Tourism is a huge part of the North Country economy, and it’s been just over a year since the coronavirus pandemic changed almost everything about it here. The Canadian border closed, interstate travel dried up, and what visitors were looking for changed drastically. But the region did ...
HUNTINGTON, W. Va. — Larrecsa Cox steered past the used tire shop, where a young man collapsed a few days before, the syringe he’d used to shoot heroin still clenched in his fist. She wound toward his house in the hills outside of town. The man had been revived by paramedics, and Cox ...