Northern Light

The lawsuit against the state of New York over the Adirondack Park Agency

Assembly members representing Lake Ontario communities oppose IJC water levels plan, Lake Placid leaders are surprised, but comfortable with plans to close the old hospital there, the state ethics commission looks at lobbying influence, and Canton high school seniors reflect on their advocacy efforts earlier this year.

US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand says 300-thousand NY will lose food stamp funding under the Senate version of the 2012 Farm Bill. The GED gets a makeover. A lobby group associated with Governor Cuomo is questioned by the ethics committee. And Jazz in Burlington.

Faced with tighter budgets and few options, North Country schools are looking at the possibility of mergers. Governor Cuomo

Essex County supervisors have voted to sell the Horace Nye nursing home to a for-profit corporation. Congressman Bill Owens says he'll support the International Joint Commission's new water levels plan. The race to replace Teresa Sayward in the assembly might not be as boring as it seemed. And reporter Joanna Richards takes us on a bird count on the Lake Ontario island of Little Galloo.

Adirondack Health announces it will close Lake Placid hospital

It's national donut day! That's it, we just wanted to say. A land dispute in Hamilton County

We continue our series on literacy with that age-old question

We�ll continue our series on literacy in the North Country with a visit to story time for kids at one of our local libraries. Brian Mann reports from Montreal on the ongoing student demonstrations in that city, and the response to them. And, Heard Up North, undoing what beavers do best�

We continue our series on literacy in the North Country with a profile of a man who learned to read well into his middle age. An audio postcard from yesterday