Brian Dwyer

New York state is helping ease a massive need for child care in Northern New York. Funding of nearly $2 million will help build a care center in Ogdensburg.

The official rollout of legal marijuana in New York state has certainly had its ups and downs.

Volunteer firefighting associations are calling staffing shortages a crisis.

The state is launching its annual No Empty Chair campaign, and students at one high school are taking it a step further.

“Over the course of many years, unfortunately, the New York State Department of Transportation has lost 59 of our highway workers,” state Department of Transportation Commissioner Marie Therese Dominguez said.

The agency said that over the last month or so, military markers and plaques have been stolen — likely because they are made of bronze — a metal worth money.

JCC recently received a grant from Micron for $750,000, to create a curriculum based on semiconductor and advanced manufacturing.

For more than 50 years, the North Country has been home to an organization designed to help those with developmental disabilities and their families.

In the decades since the 1980 U.S. men's Olympic hockey team's "Miracle on Ice" upset of the Soviet Union, it has been continuously celebrated in Lake Placid.

What You Need To Know "I think that learning in this environment is not a privilege, but it's something that you deserve," South Jefferson High School Senior Lacy Smith said.