LAKE PLACID — FX Matt Brewing was awarded a silver medal in the Strong/Imperial Ale category at the 2019 U.S. Open Beer Championship last week for Lake Placid Ubu Ale, a local beer that the company is contracted to mass-brew and bottle. Lake Placid Ubu Ale was chosen from more than 7,000 ...

A western New York man died at Mount Marcy Tuesday while hiking with his family. Dennis J. Stowell, 61, of Savannah, died of a heart attack shortly before 1 p.m., according to State Police Public Information Officer Jennifer Fleishman. Stowell, a farmer at Wayne Farms in Red Creek, was ...

LAKE PLACID — When someone is bleeding, you don’t stand around and assess the bleeding, you stop the bleeding, Lake Placid village Trustee Jason Leon said Monday. That’s how Leon characterized what he saw as the effect of short-term vacation rentals on the village of Lake Placid: A ...

TUPPER LAKE — The obstacles for the Saturday’s Warrior Run are set up, nearly 100 people are already registered to run the race, and organizers are hoping the weather brings some rain to muddy up the track. While rain is the bane of most events’ existence, it is what the Warrior Run ...

TUPPER LAKE — This town’s supplier of tuxedos for the past two decades, Darcy Clark, recently handed off her business to Anne Hoag, owner of Cabin Fever on Park Street. Clark has two more weddings to suit up, one for her nephew, and Hoag booked her first wedding last week. “It’s ...

Families planning a trip to Montreal might want to check their vaccination status first. There is a measles outbreak in Montreal, leading to warnings from local county health departments. Measles began to spread there in June, Essex County Public Health educator Andrea Whitmarsh ...

ALBANY — The Enterprise took home four plaques in the New York News Publishers Association’s annual awards banquet. The NYNPA is for daily newspapers in New York, and its banquet was held Wednesday evening at the Hearst Media Center, in the Times Union newspaper headquarters. The ...

ALBANY — Solar panels on every roof. Parking meters that double as car chargers. Wind turbines towering above farm fields and ocean waves. A new law signed Thursday by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo sets the nation’s most aggressive targets for reducing carbon emissions and is intended to ...

A western New York man died at Mount Marcy Tuesday while hiking with his family. Dennis J. Stowell, 61, of Savannah, died of a heart attack shortly before 1 p.m., according to State Police Public Information Officer Jennifer Fleishman. Stowell, a farmer at Wayne Farms in Red Creek, was ...

LAKE PLACID — The name of Melville Dewey, the creator of the Dewey Decimal System and founder of the Lake Placid Club, was removed from a top library award last month amid allegations of anti-Semitism, racism and inappropriate behavior toward women. Locally, reaction to the news was ...

BLOOMINGDALE — A block of trees behind the rows of lichen-spotted headstones might solve the problem the Brookside Cemetery might soon face. The cemetery, just off of state Route 3, had its first recorded grave in 1843, according to town Supervisor Davina Winemiller. She believes its ...

Families planning a trip to Montreal might want to check their vaccination status first. There is a measles outbreak in Montreal, leading to warnings from local county health departments. Measles began to spread there in June, Essex County Public Health educator Andrea Whitmarsh ...

State forest rangers helped numerous groups of hikers last week, in addition to helping a father locate his son who was long-term illegally camping on Forest Preserve lands near Schroon Lake. --- Town of Long Lake On Monday, July 8, a 71-year-old man fell near the summit of Owls Head ...

QUEENSBURY — A truck driver was killed and all lanes of the northbound Northway between exits 17 and 19 closed by a crash involving two tractor-trailers early Wednesday. Both trucks burst into fire after they collided near the Exit 18 overpass, and one driver was able to free himself and ...

LAKE PLACID — A local man was jailed after police say he committed several acts of violence, including two against a woman who had a judge’s order of protection against him. State Police said they responded to a domestic dispute around 5:30 a.m. Tuesday on Dandelion Way, off Old ...

GATES (AP) — Police say an upstate New York woman accused of running over two toddlers was taking pictures with her phone at the time of the accident. Authorities charged 29-year-old Letoya Palmo of Gates with two counts of assault and reckless endangerment. A 2-year-old and a ...

DETROIT — The heat wave that has been roasting much of the U.S. in recent days is just getting warmed up, with temperatures expected to soar to dangerous levels through the weekend. Communities are preparing by offering buildings as cooling centers and asking residents to check in on family ...

ALBANY (AP) — Gov. Andrew Cuomo has signed legislation giving farm workers collective bargaining rights, overtime pay and other labor protections afforded in non-farm industries. The Farm Laborers Fair Labor Practices Act eliminates a provision in New York state law that prohibits ...

ALBANY — A former New York state prison investigator has been charged for accusations that he falsified evidence records, authorities said. Former investigator Todd Johnson was arrested and faces second-degree forgery and first-degree offering a false instrument for filing, New York State ...

A lawsuit between candidates for Hamilton County judge candidates has resulted in one of the candidates losing a ballot line for November’s general election. Marsha Purdue sued Tatiana Coffinger in state Supreme Court because she believed that an independent party that Coffinger created ...