LAKE PLACID — The Essex County Industrial Development Agency will host a public meeting on its emergency business grant program in Lake Placid next week. The town of North Elba awarded $225,000 to the Essex County IDA last month to fund a new emergency business grant program. The IDA was ...

NEW YORK — The once-deserted steps outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art are filling up with visitors again. Hotel lobbies are losing their desolate feel. Downtown, people are back to taking selfies with the Charging Bull statue near Wall Street. Tourists who vanished from New York ...

ALBANY — New York employers will have to improve workplace safety as the result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the NY HERO Act, or the New York Health and Essential Rights Act, into law last Wednesday, requiring state regulators to implement new minimum standards ...

Loosening COVID-19 restrictions across New York are bringing a measure of financial relief for businesses. Now they just have to find the workers. A combination of labor shortages across the state prior to the pandemic and enhanced unemployment benefits is now keeping some workers from ...

LAKE PLACID — Construction along Main Street continues this week with more work expected at the Saranac Avenue intersection and along the north end of the street, as well as on Mirror Lake Drive. This week, construction crews plan to continue to install a new water main, starting on ...