UPDATE: Porter was found on Friday morning. Rob Russell with New Hampshire-based 2A TAC Air OPS Drone Services brought his thermal imaging drone up for the search on Thursday night. After only 45 minutes of searching in the morning, Joshua Fund founder and director Dan Bain said Porter was ...

RAY BROOK — This hamlet is, for many Tri-Lakers, a place to simply pass through. It’s situated along a busy stretch of state Route 86, where commuters between Lake Placid and Saranac Lake whiz by. That’s part of the reason why Ana and Christian Rottner hope to turn Ray Brook into a ...

NORTH ELBA — Eleven of 12 cairns atop Wright Peak were deliberately knocked down on Monday. Cairns are rock structures that are used for navigational purposes above the treeline, where trail marker discs aren’t feasible. They are one of two primary navigational sources in the ...

LAKE PLACID — Rick Preston is running unopposed for North Elba town supervisor. In all likelihood, he’ll be elected in November and sworn in come January. But, if a new state law is upheld by the courts, Preston would have just a few weeks in office before he’d need to start running ...

Governor Kathy Hochul has improved her numbers in the latest Siena College Research Institute statewide poll, and has pulled back out into a growing lead against potential 2026 challenger Rep. Elise Stefanik. In their latest statewide poll released Tuesday, SCRI reports that Hochul has ...