TUPPER LAKE — A federal vaccine mandate that would have put hundreds of Sunmount employees’ jobs in limbo was put on hold last week before its first deadline, allowing around 440 unvaccinated staff at the facility to keep working and delaying a potential staffing crisis there. A federal ...

In the first five days of December, 303 people have tested positive for COVID-19 in Franklin County — around seven times more than the 42 new cases reported in the same time period last year. On Sunday, the county recorded 29 new cases, bringing the total number of active cases in Franklin ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is expected to take steps in the coming days to toughen testing requirements for international travelers to the U.S., including both vaccinated and unvaccinated people, amid the spread of the new omicron variant of the coronavirus. The precise ...

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has decided that National Guard members who refuse COVID-19 vaccination will be barred from federally funded drills and training required to maintain their Guard status. Austin spelled out the policy in an internal memo obtained by The Associated ...

SARANAC LAKE — There are currently 10 people hospitalized at Adirondack Medical Center in Saranac Lake who have tested positive for COVID-19, with one on a ventilator. Adirondack Health Spokesman Matt Scollin said nine of these new cases came in over the weekend, and that seven of those ...

GENEVA — The World Health Organization warned Monday that the global risk from the omicron variant is “very high” based on the early evidence, saying the mutated coronavirus could lead to surges with “severe consequences.” The assessment from the U.N. health agency, contained in a ...