KEENE — One Saranac Lake woman is dead and another is in critical condition following a three-vehicle crash in the Cascade Pass section of state Route 73 in the town of Keene on Monday afternoon. Tracy L. Mauler, 57, of Saranac Lake was unresponsive and pronounced dead on the scene by the ...

BUFFALO — Ely Samuel Parker, a Seneca leader and Civil War officer who served in President Ulysses S. Grant’s cabinet, was posthumously admitted Friday to the New York State Bar, an achievement denied him in life because he was Native American. His admission inside a ceremonial ...

WASHINGTON — House lawmakers made a long-awaited return to the nation’s capital on Wednesday after nearly eight weeks away to potentially put an end to the longest federal government shutdown in U.S. history. The House is scheduled to take up a bill to reopen the government that the ...

Anxious travelers across the U.S. felt a bit of relief Friday as airlines mostly stayed on schedule while gradually cutting hundreds of daily flights because of the government shutdown. Plenty of nervousness remained, though, as more canceled flights are expected in the coming days to ...

WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader John Thune quickly swatted down a Democratic offer to reopen the government and extend expiring health care subsidies for a year, calling it a “nonstarter” as the partisan impasse over the shutdown continued into its 38th day. Senate Democratic ...

BOSTON — President Donald Trump ’s administration asked a federal appeals court Friday to block a judge’s order that it distribute November’s full monthly SNAP food benefits amid a U.S. government shutdown, even as at least some states said they were moving quickly to get the money to ...