Gov. Andrew Cuomo is directing the state Division of Human Rights to investigate an incident in which two white children assaulted a 10 year-old African-American girl on a school bus in Gouverneur.

When infected, your tonsils may be useful to doctors to keep up their bottom line, and to Popsicle vendors to provide the means to soothe recovering children. But when healthy, they also have a use as part of the front-line in the human immune system.

Martha Foley and Dr. Curt Stager discuss an oft-removed portion of the human anatomy.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo traveled to Hartford, Connecticut, on Wednesday to meet with that state’s governor and to announce a joint effort to limit vaping and work toward legalizing the adult recreational use of marijuana.

Economic development experts say a new problem has been brewing in the North Country, one a lot of business owners don't have much experience with in our rural region. There are too many open jobs and too few workers to fill them.

The Adirondack Daily Enterprise has been looking at this issue in an an on-going series of reports. For this week's Tri-Lakes Takes, the paper's managing editor Peter Crowley sat down to talk with Brian Mann.

The first time Fred Shaw saw the Adirondacks was in January of 1989 - he was there to meet his potential congregation. He was coming from a larger, suburban church in Connecticut that was ethnically, socio- economically, and culturally diverse.

In the 2000 US Census, Essex County reported as 95% white. Fred said he was definitely curious as to how he would be received.

The SUNY Potsdam Department of Theatre and Dance will host workshops and a performance by 10 Hairy Legs, a male repertory dance company in New York City. The concert will feature four original works by renowned choreographers, including two world premieres. The dance concert is in the Proscenium Theatre in the SUNY Potsdam Performing Arts Center on October 3 at 7:30 pm.

The U.S. Secretary of Transportation, Elaine Chao, was in Massena yesterday to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the St. Lawrence Seaway. The Seaway opened in 1959 to connect the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes for shipping. Secretary Chao praised the economic impact of the Seaway and federal investment in its upkeep. Massena is home to two of the seven locks along the Seaway.

Fred Shaw was 35 years old and had never been to the Adirondacks when he received an invitation to apply for a job here.

In 1987, he’d finished years of education and training and been ordained as a Protestant minister. While working in churches in Connecticut, where he grew up, he began looking for a full-time position somewhere in New England, preferably Maine.

He wasn't having much luck, but then, in 1989, he received a letter.

North Country Congresswoman Elise Stefanik says lawmakers should be given access to a whistleblower complaint against President Donald Trump. Another Republican with North Country ties calls Trump's actions "treason."