Basket making has been a traditional craft of the Akwesasne Mohawk Nation for generations. Their baskets are typically made using thin strips of wood from black ash trees, but artisans are facing challenges as an invasive bug, the emerald ash borer, threatens their craft.

North Country Congresswoman Elise Stefanik helped lead Republican efforts yesterday to defend President Donald Trump. Stefanik sits on the House Intelligence Committee, which held its first open impeachment hearing Wednesday. Stefanik appeared unswayed by testimony from government officials who say Trump's policy in Ukraine was designed to target his political rival Joe Biden.

Some members of a commission that’s creating the rules for a public campaign finance system for state elected offices are concerned that the plans being developed would be too favorable to incumbent politicians.

In general, plants make food from sunlight, and animals fuel themselves by "burning" oxygen. But some animals think outside the box.

Curt stager and Martha Foley look at a photosynthetic slug that hijacks the genetic machinery of the algae in its diet, and at a jellyfish that needs no oxygen, burning the alternative fuels of hydrogen and sulfur.

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Now a group of investors are refurbishing a 64-acre campus on the edge of Saranac Lake that used to be a tuberculosis sanatorium. The property has sat largely empty for decades.

"Running a 5k race every week is hard. These are kids that want to run and want to get better," says Assistant Coach Amy Farrell.

From an 18-by-20 foot studio in Hogansburg, NY, Carrie Hill makes baskets out of black ash and hand-gathered sweetgrass, continuing a long Mohawk tradition in a world of social media, the emerald ash borer, and a global market.

The walls of her studio are covered in long, thin strips of black ash splint. There’s a shelf of vase forms. A central table is lit by a forensic-style lamp, and covered in small tools. She's working on a few projects, one of which is a tiny, delicate 4-inch basket covered in blue curls.

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Gregory Lee served with the U.S. Marine Corps in Vietnam in the late 1960s. He was injured in a battle and, after returning home to the North Country, struggled with PTSD.

Now he has new help, a service dog named Olivia.