LAKE PLACID — Billy Allen has been a fixture of the Saranac Lake music scene for decades, but now he’s finding his voice in a new way. His songs — packed with references to Main Street, Grizle T’s and the Saranac River — are a love story to his hometown and about as local as you ...

SARANAC LAKE — A doctor at the Trudeau Institute has received a $1.4 million grant to study improved treatment for tuberculosis. Exactly 140 years after Edward Livingston Trudeau founded the research institute in Saranac Lake, the first in the country for the study of tuberculosis, ...

Local towns and villages have received millions of dollars in state grants for water quality projects. In all, 19 municipalities and organizations in Assembly District 115, which includes Franklin, Essex and part of Clinton counties, were awarded more than $25 million, according to ...

Starting Wednesday, the Canadian government is cracking down on “flagpoling,” a practice that led to longer lines at U.S. ports of entry and made more work for U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials. In a press release Wednesday morning, the Canadian government announced through ...

TUPPER LAKE — If it’s a weekday and the flakes are forecast to start flying ferociously, one thought bursts to the top of children’s minds across the area: “Will I get the day off from school?” In Tupper Lake, that question is ultimately answered by school Superintendent Jaycee ...

LAKE PLACID — Adirondack-based magician Alyx Hilshey is performing four shows at the Olympic Center this winter. Hilshey said this collaboration has been more than a year in the making and that a place with the concept of miracles at its core was a fitting venue for a magician. Hilshey, ...