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Expect valley fog in the mornings and a cooler weekend, with nighttime temperatures reaching into the 40s, and highs mostly in the upper-60s to mid-70s.

This summer, our Adirondack bureau chief Brian Mann had one big mission in the outdoors. He wanted to find the perfect swimming hole, someplace wild and beautiful and private. He thinks he found it on the North Fork of the Boquet River near Keene.

Record high water levels on Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River flooded homes and businesses, knocked down seawalls and tore up docks. The International Joint Commission, which manages water levels in the region, has set record high out flow rates for more than two months.

This week, though, the IJC slowed those rates to give some relief to commercial shippers.

The upcoming November elections will be the first in New York to offer early voting. This means anyone registered to vote will have an extra 10 days to cast their ballots.

While the sub-Arctic and the Sahara are very different environments, both present extreme challenges to large mammals that live there.

Martha Foley and Curt Stager compare the camel and the caribou, which, while not closely related, have made similar evolutionary adaptations to survive in barren terrain.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo took an Amtrak train from Albany to the New York State Fair for its opening day on Wednesday. Some of the highlights of Cuomo’s trip includes a new plan to make the fairgrounds energy self-sufficient by 2023.

The St. Regis Mohawk Tribe in Akwesasne has been working for years to save its native language. The number of Mohawk speakers has been declining for the last century, but new language immersion programs on the reservation are working to reverse that trend.

A plan by Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration to require motorists to pay a $25 fee to replace aging license plates is getting some resistance. But the governor said it’s needed to comply with new cashless scanners being set up on toll roads and bridges all over the state.

New York new slate of gun control laws, signed by Governor Cuomo, includes a red flag law that goes into effect this week. That gives law enforcement and judges more power to take firearms away from people deemed a risk to others or themselves.

There’s also a new law that goes into effect next month requiring that gun owners lock up their firearms when someone under the age of 16 is in the home.