LAKE PLACID — Lake Placid voters on Tuesday decided to overturn the village’s cannabis laws and allow cannabis dispensaries and on-site consumption licensing. On-site consumption licensing, or proposition two, appears to have gotten the green light by one vote, though the results ...

SARANAC LAKE — There will be three candidates on the ballot running for a seat on the village board in Tuesday’s election, but only two of them will be elected. Kelly Brunette, a current trustee who was elected last year to finish an unexpired term last March, is running on the ...

Tedra L. Cobb’s Backroads PAC supports rural Democrats as they run for Congress, but it’s being criticized for how much money it actually gives to candidates. Since March 2021, the political action committee has raised over $375,000, and spent about $9,500 on direct contributions to eight ...

SARANAC LAKE — At a mayoral candidate forum Wednesday night, village residents got to hear more from the three people running for Saranac Lake’s mayor seat in the March 15 election. The three candidates for mayor in this coming Tuesday’s election — Melinda Little, Jeremy Evans and ...

WASHINGTON — The House approved a massive spending bill Wednesday night that would rush $13.6 billion in U.S. aid to battered Ukraine and its European allies, after top Democrats were forced to abruptly drop their plan to include fresh funds to battle COVID-19. Passage of the Ukraine aid ...

PLATTSBURGH — Two Democrats looking to oust U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-Schuylerville) from her seat this November have criticized her for not condemning former President Donald Trump’s remarks praising Russian President Vladimir Putin as the invasion of Ukraine continues. Stefanik ...