SARANAC LAKE — The state Department of Environmental Conservation announced Friday that its contractors will begin the final stage of restoration and rehabilitation work in and along Pontiac Bay and Brandy Brook on Monday. The project, which removed contaminated soils and sediment from ...

SARANAC LAKE — In planning for its 98th Annual Dinner, the Saranac Lake Area Chamber of Commerce is requesting nominations from its members and the community for the Don Duso Citizen of the Year. The award, which will be presented at the Annual Dinner on June 19, will go to a community ...

TUPPER LAKE — Everyone was dressed up, the ceiling of the Wild Center’s Big Wolf Great Hall was lit up purple, and dozens of family and friends waited for 13-year-old Aubrey Sparks to enter the room. “Stop,” said her mother, Meaghan. Meaghan wanted her daughter to drink it all ...

PLATTSBURGH — North Country prisons have been spared from the chopping block as the state will close two units elsewhere. According to State Assemblyman Billy Jones, D-Chateaugay, Livingston Correctional Facility, a medium-security prison in western New York, and Lincoln Correctional ...

UTICA — Jack Roberson has resigned as executive director of the Adirondack Railway Preservation Society, a nonprofit organization that oversees the Adirondack Scenic Railroad, and Justin Gonyo, former general manager of the Saratoga & North Creek Railway, has been appointed interim ...

LAKE PLACID — For Artur Novoselsky, a 30-year-old musician based in New York City, growing up in Lake Placid is an experience that has never left him. Though he no longer lives in the village, Novoselsky still feels rooted here. “As much as the city is now my home, whenever ...

LAKE PLACID — Lake Placid’s Board of Education had just completed a budget hearing on Tuesday when a robot rolled in the door. The robot was 3 to 4 feet tall — a carefully crafted cluster of wires, pulleys and belts all contained within a sparse metal framework atop a motorized ...

PLATTSBURGH — U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is among those attempting to install bipartisan legislation that would address contaminants in drinking water like those found in groundwater around the former Plattsburgh Air Force Base. The legislation Gillibrand, D-N.Y., is pushing with ...

LAKE PLACID — A new composting machine is set to be installed at the Lake Placid Middle-High School this summer. The $35,000 composter was recently purchased with grant funding from the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, North Country School and the New York ...

Despite a drought and early snow last fall, the state Department of Environmental Conservation said the state’s population of white-tailed deer survived the winter well. According to the Winter Severity Index, several thaws and warmer-than-average temperatures may have helped deer get ...

LAKE PLACID — Part of one lane of Main Street downtown was closed to traffic Wednesday as a construction crew prepared to install a new water line. The water line is being installed at 2423 Main St., outside of Pure Placid and Ben & Jerry’s. Work on the project began Monday and is ...

Outflows from Lake Ontario continue to be adjusted to balance the impacts of high water levels between Lake Erie and the lower St. Lawrence River. According to the International Lake Ontario-St. Lawrence River Board, several months of wet weather followed by especially heavy rains and ...

KEENE VALLEY — The Adirondack Chapter of The Nature Conservancy partnered for the second year in a row with veterans attending Paul Smith’s College to get a nature preserve open for spring. Eighteen people, including six Conservancy staff and a dozen people from the college, worked ...

NEW CASTLE (AP) — Food Network star Sandra Lee says she and her longtime partner, Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, are selling their house in the New York City suburbs. Lee tells The New York Times that the 1950s Colonial in the northern Westchester County enclave of New Castle will ...

SARANAC LAKE — The Saranac Village at Will Rogers Senior Outing Club’s May event will be on Tuesday, May 28, featuring a tour and walk through the town of Westport with Adirondack Architectural Heritage Executive Director Steven Englehart. Attendees will be invited to view various ...

ALBANY — The Democrat-controlled state Senate passed a package of bills Wednesday designed to make New York’s streets, roads and waterways safer, including a measure aimed at cracking down on drivers who pass stopped school buses. According to the legislation sponsored by Sen. Tim ...