(Jul 7, 2025) Join NCPR at one of our upcoming North Country at Work events to share your work stories and photos.

(Jul 7, 2025) While civic groups and adult sports leagues have been disappearing from North Country society, pickleball leagues have exploded in popularity. We go courtside to a pickleball tournament in Potsdam which raises money for local charities. Also: The historic ferry business from Cape Vincent to Wolfe Island is now for sale.

(Jul 7, 2025) The North Country Pickleball Club recently held a 60-person tournament to benefit United Helpers.

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(Jul 4, 2025) Expect crowded trailheads, boat launches, and camping areas. Some new climbing route closures. A few algae blooms reported on Lake Champlain.

(Jul 4, 2025) For your holiday weekend listening enjoyment, here's the latest edition of the North Words radio show, featuring interviews with Frank Barry about his trip on the Lincoln Highway, and Saranac Lake's Pendragon Theatre, which will move into a new space next season.

(Jul 3, 2025) NOTE: This is yesterday's show. Our website and podcast system was down yesterday. Sorry for the inconvenience. — David

With so much water, the North Country is a prime place to fish. In Chazy in Clinton County, the rod and gun club brings local middle schoolers to train the next generation of anglers. Also: Hospital groups around the state say the tax and spending bill passed by the Senate will hurt New York's health care system.

(Jul 3, 2025) Local officials are weighing the future of Clinton Community College's current campus as the institution prepares to move to SUNY Plattsburgh next month; ahead of this Sunday's Willard Hanmer paddling race in Saranac Lake, we listen back to last year's contest; and North Words host Mitch Teich sits down with Canadian rocker, Rob Benvie, about his latest novel, "The Damagers," that follows two teenage girls who stumble into a cult that’s building its home base in the Adirondack High Peaks.

(Jul 3, 2025) It's prime canoe and kayaking season, when there are races most weekends somewhere in the North Country. We join the Willard Hanmer paddling race, which is set to return to Saranac Lake this Sunday. Also: Health care professionals protested in Plattsburgh yesterday, saying Republicans' tax and spending bill will devastate the North Country's health system.

(Jul 2, 2025) The college's move to SUNY Plattsburgh this fall leaves behind a 104-acre property and multiple buildings.