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Gov. Andrew Cuomo and public officials around the state continue to blame the International Joint Committee for the high water levels in Lake Ontario. While IJC critics point to Plan 2014 being the root of the problem, other Great Lakes experts say Mother Nature is playing a bigger role. So what happens next?

The St. Lawrence County Board of Legislators voted yesterday against demanding the resignation of one of its members.

Supporters hope that their efforts to change an 80-year-old law that excludes farm workers from many of the protections afforded to other workers in New York, may finally meet with success in the all Democratic-led State legislature.

Jennifer Reid was near the bins for recycling plastic inside the town of North Elba Recycling Center when Bob Hudak walked in with two gray totes. Written on the side of one was "#2 PLASTIC." But Reid saw more than No. 2 plastic in the tote, so she swooped in to make sure it was all getting sorted properly. As she helped Hudak throw plastic containers into the bins, she realized he had it under control.

Dozens of protesters are expected to attend the St. Lawrence County legislature meeting tonight in Canton.

Plattsburgh writer Aimee Baker’s collection of poetry, "Doe," has won the Eugene Paul Nassar Poetry Prize awarded by Utica College.

She teaches at SUNY Plattsburgh, and also serves as fiction editor for "Saranac Review."

State lawmakers have completed a round of public hearings on a bill that would grant labor rights, like overtime and the right to unionize, to farmworkers in New York. They’re the first such hearings in a decade.

The rainy and chilly weather is hanging on. Trails are muddy, waters remain generally high, and there are still areas of deep snow in the highest elevations, where summit temperatures are expected to remain mostly in the 30s this weekend.

A bill that would create a back-door method to release President Donald Trump’s taxes is moving through the State Senate and could be voted on as early as next week.