(May 14, 2025) Trump has slashed support for schools, scientific research, arts and libraries. Now, some North Country organizations are feeling the impact.

(May 14, 2025)

(May 14, 2025) President Trump's federal funding cuts are having impacts across the North Country, from arts to education to mental health. We talk with orgs that are having to adjust their programs and deal with uncertainty. Also: Some state lawmakers want Albany to better protect food safety as federal agencies are losing funding and staff.

(May 13, 2025) St. Lawrence County is temporarily combining two offices that handle cases for people who can't afford attorneys; new research from the University of Vermont found that old, dead trees that end up in streams can act as natural climate solutions;  and listener Phil Fitzpatrick of Onchiota has some advice to share on how to repel black flies.

(May 13, 2025) Science has documented the role downed logs play in capturing carbon in the forest floor. New research in the Adirondacks is looking at how decomposing logs in streams and riverbeds play their own role. Also: State lawmakers are holding a special hearing about New York's troubled prison system tomorrow, amidst increasing violence against both inmates and corrections officers.

(May 13, 2025) Researchers from the University of Vermont studied the carbon storage of dead wood in streams in the Adirondacks and New Hampshire.

(May 13, 2025) The county's indigent defense staff has faced continued recruitment and retention challenges.

(May 12, 2025) Business owners in Lake George are worried the young foreign workers they rely on every summer may get caught up in the Trump administration's immigration crackdown. Why J-1 visa holders may get held up this summer. Also: Speaking with reporters in Ticonderoga Friday, Congresswoman Elise Stefanik voiced support for President Donald Trump's tariff approach, but said she wanted full funding for rural airports in the North Country.

(May 12, 2025) Laurinda Lind wrote her poem, "Ice Embryo," after a summertime chat at Butterfield Lake in Jefferson County.

(May 12, 2025)