TUPPER LAKE — More than 14,600 acres of land near Tupper Lake are set to be permanently protected by the state in a $9.3 million sale, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Tuesday. The agreement between the state government and the Nature Conservancy, a nonprofit that focuses on land protection, ...

WASHINGTON — Nearly half of the world’s migratory species are in decline, according to a new United Nations report released Monday. Many songbirds, sea turtles, whales, sharks and other migratory animals move to different environments with changing seasons and are imperiled by habitat ...

LONG LAKE — The Long Lake Kid & Adult Ice Fishing Derby is a go today, despite the warm winter wreaking havoc on ice around the North Country. Long Lake Fish and Game Club President Bruce Jennings said that the bays of Long Lake and Lake Eaton both have between 10 and 12 inches of ice, ...

TUPPER LAKE — Hundreds of local and visiting hopefuls stood in the cold on the Simon Pond boat launch on Saturday looking to win raffle prizes after the Northern Challenge Ice Fishing Derby, one of the largest in the state, was canceled. “We wait all year for this,” Dan Milich, of New ...

SARANAC LAKE — A guide and a client reeled in a nearly 9-pound salmon from Lake Colby while ice fishing on Thursday. Richard Preis, a guide for Adirondack All Seasons Guide Service for eight years, was out on Lake Colby with a client from Connecticut in the morning when they got a major ...

A study recently published by the National Academy of Sciences shows a poor outlook for the future of Adirondack brook trout populations in lakes. The study, titled “Concurrent warming and browning eliminate cold-water fish habitat in many temperate lakes,” explores how trout habitat is ...