WILMINGTON — While the eyes of the ski world may be trained on Italy as the Olympic Winter Games take place over the next couple of weeks, Whiteface Mountain continues to host a series of high-caliber Alpine ski races. With the men’s and women’s downhill and super giant slalom FIS ...
Forest Rangers with the state Department of Environmental Conservation responded to one call in the Adirondacks last week. It involved two hikers and their dog on Haystack Mountain. The hikers lacked proper gear for the icy conditions, and as darkness approached, they did not have a reliable ...
PREDAZZO, Italy — Philipp Raimund of Germany led two other Olympic rookies and a veteran of the Games who never reached the podium past a field of former medalists and world champions to win gold in the men’s normal hill ski jump at the Milan Cortina Winter Games on Monday. With a best ...
CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — German teammates Julia Taubitz and Merle Fraebel have pulled away after the first two runs of the women’s singles luge event at the Milan Cortina Olympics, opening up a sizable lead over the rest of the field going into Tuesday’s medal-deciding ...
ALBANY — The New York Assembly Republicans have a new leader. On Monday, the Assembly Republican conference voted unanimously to elevate Edward P. Ra, a Long Island lawmaker with an established profile, to leadership in the minority party. Ra, R-Garden City, has been a member of the ...
CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — The U.S. may have only one sled in an Olympic two-man bobsled competition for the first time in the nearly century-long history of the event, after the sport’s governing body denied an appeal to give American driver Kris Horn a spot in that event at the Milan ...