SARANAC LAKE — A rugby player with massive love for the sport, who competed around the world and had teammates and friends around the country died during the Can-Am Rugby Tournament over the weekend. After playing a game at the Petrova Elementary fields on Friday, Robert Sweeney, 67, ...

TUPPER LAKE — Tupper Lake Village Board members appeared in agreement at their regular meeting on July 21 for a new fire truck purchase from E-ONE for $889,287. No formal action toward a purchase was taken, and village Mayor Mary Fontana said the current plan is to propose a contract, ...

TUPPER LAKE — A Customs and Border Protection checkpoint on state Route 30 between Tupper Lake and Long Lake on Thursday led to the arrest of a 31-year-old Guatemalan man described as an “illegal alien” who is currently in the custody of ICE and awaiting deportation proceedings, ...

LAKE PLACID — The Lake Placid Baptist Church has renamed and rededicated its “Community Room,” which was recently renovated as part of the church’s efforts to provide useful services to the community. In recent years, the church has hosted dozens of events in the space, which ...

DANNEMORA — A 52-year-old inmate who is serving a 25-year sentence for the beating and stabbing death of an 81-year-old woman, attacked an officer in the mess hall, punching him in the face and nose and injured two other officers who responded to the attack at the maximum-security prison ...

LAKE PLACID — Through the muggy summer haze, daunting dark of night and pounding rain — the nearly 95 competitors in the Last Man Standing Lake Placid ran on and on. Hour after hour, loop after grueling loop, racers began to drop out as others defied what they thought was possible ...