LAKE PLACID — The Barkeater Trails Alliance is hosting the Backcountry Film Festival at the North Country School and Camp Treetops Performing Arts Center on Jan. 10 from 5:30 to 9 p.m. The film festival includes 10 short films that celebrate the spirit of human-powered winter ...

SARANAC LAKE — “You could spend days in here,” Mike Delahant said as he showed state Assemblyman Michael S. Cashman around the Robert Louis Stevenson Cottage Museum on Thursday. Members of the Stevenson Society of America board had heard the newly elected Assemblyman would be in the ...

ALBANY — The town of Tupper Lake is the recipient of a $2 million state grant for sewer infrastructure upgrades, and the town of St. Armand was awarded $484,185 for a wastewater treatment disinfection project. The grant awards were announced on Friday and are among the 83 water ...

RAY BROOK — Four environmental conservation advocacy groups are vying for party status to the upcoming adjudicatory hearing for a proposed howitzer range in the town of Lewis. While the public can watch the hearing, only those with party status can actively participate in it. This ...

LAKE PLACID — With the Olympics looming, the United States Luge Team put together another great performance in the FIL World Cup racing on its home ice, this time at Mount Van Hoevenberg. In four races held here on Friday and Saturday, the U.S. sliders earned four medals — a gold, ...

WILMINGTON — There was an added buzz of excitement in the air at the Whiteface Mountain ski area on Sunday, as the new Little Whiteface Chair opened to the public for the first time. As is often the case at the tallest ski center in the Northeast, Mother Nature made herself known ...