ALBANY — State senators voted on Monday to pass 11 pieces of legislation as part of a package to reform oversight and care at nursing homes in wake of recent controversy over state COVID-19 policies and publishing public health data from congregate facilities. Legislators moved bills to ...

SARANAC LAKE — The Essex and Franklin County health departments are staging a coronavirus vaccine clinic in Saranac Lake on Thursday, but the appointments filled up quickly. The two health departments are pooling resources to administer 400 first doses at a joint clinic at North ...

TUPPER LAKE — Adirondack Health will conduct a pop-up testing clinic in Tupper Lake today from 1 to 2 p.m. at Tupper Lake Middle-High School, 25 Chaney Ave. Pre-registration is required, with a limited number of appointment slots available. To pre-register, contact the Adirondack Health ...

MALONE — Bare Hill Correctional Facility has recorded its first COVID-19-related death at its prison, according to the state’s Department of Corrections and Community Supervision online database. It is the second recorded virus-related death overall at Malone’s three correctional ...

For weeks after Cindy Pollock began planting tiny flags across her yard — one for each of the more than 1,800 Idahoans killed by COVID-19 — the toll was mostly a number. Until two women she had never met rang her doorbell in tears, seeking a place to mourn the husband and father they ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The first case of the South African coronavirus variant has been discovered in a New York state resident, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday. The South African variant case involved a resident of Long Island’s Nassau County, Cuomo said in a news release. The sequencing was ...