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The village of Potsdam will receive $10 million in funding as the North Country winner of the fourth round of the Downtown Revitalization Initiative.

North Country Congresswoman Elise Stefanik voted with Republicans yesterday to censure the man leading the impeachment inquiry against President Trump.

U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand wants more federal dollars flowing to rural America, to places like the North Country.

The Democrat was in Plattsburgh on Monday to unveil legislation aimed at doing just that. The Rebuild Rural America Act would earmark $50 billion for grants to go to small communities across the country.

Canadians will vote today in a national election that’s expected to be one of the closest in recent memory.

If you launched a boat somewhere in the North Country this summer, chances are you talked to someone in a blue vest with the words, ‘Clean, Drain, Dry’ on the back. They’re stewards from the Adirondack Watershed Institute at Paul Smith’s College.

Vermont is a small state with a big reputation - the lovely Green Mountains, family dairy farms and Ben and Jerry’s ice cream, picturesque villages. But Vermont has its share of poverty, too. A new novel for young readers explores what it is like to be a child living in poverty in southern Vermont. Betsy Kepes talked to Todd Moe about The Benefits of Being an Octopus by Ann Braden.

Sharing a title with the award-winning play of the same name, I Am Rohingya: A Genocide in Four Acts is a documentary that chronicles the journey of fourteen refugee youth who take to the stage to depict their families' harrowing experiences during the on-going Burmese genocide of Rohingya Muslims.

North Country Rep. Elise Stefanik says military installations around the world are vulnerable to two new threats: climate change and cyber-attack. At a hearing this week in Washington, the Republican criticized military leaders for not moving fast enough to prepare bases.

The leaves are still near peak at the periphery of the Adirondack Park, including the Lake George and Lake Champlain valleys. Elsewhere, they are mostly past peak, and leaves are falling.