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Water levels along the St. Lawrence River are high and they’re expected to get higher in the next two weeks. Residents in the region remember the devastation after the 2017 flood and are some are expecting the worst.

The Champlain Valley Voices community chorus will celebrate the music from the Classical Era with compositions by Mozart and Salieri on Sunday afternoon at 3 pm at the Plattsburgh United Methodist Church.

The spring concert will showcase a sampling of music from throughout Mozart's life, and that of Italian composer Antonio Salieri.

Champlain Valley Voices Music Director Timothy Morningstar says the concert is a chance to compare the music of two of classical music's most famous rivals in the late 18th century.

In the second in our series about the biological marketplace, Martha Foley and Dr. Curt Stager look into the beehive. Although some worker bees might try to "cheat" and introduce their own eggs into the genetic pool of the hive, other workers will detect and destroy them. The queen presides over a society that shares her DNA, but it is run more like a police state than a family.

Major flooding in Canada is still slowing efforts to relieve high water in Lake Ontario through the St. Lawrence River.

Lake Ontario is higher than average and expected to keep rising.

A new film about the U.S.-Mexico border premieres nationwide this week and features a woman from Glens Falls.

In “The River and the Wall," Heather Mackey is part of a team traveling 1200 miles along the Rio Grande from El Paso, TX to the Gulf of Mexico.

President Trump this week said the National Rifle Association is "under siege," after it was announced there's an investigation into the gun-rights organization by New York Attorney General Letitia James.

Kate Smith was one of America’s best-known singers in the mid-20th century - big voice, big woman, familiar to TV variety show audiences - but just in the last two weeks or so, two pro sports teams cut ties to her when they learned she had sung a couple of racist songs back in the 1930s. The New York Yankees and the Philadelphia Flyers stopped playing her famous version of “God Bless America” at their games, and the Flyers removed a statue of her from outside their arena.

May is a busy month in the garden, as you prepare to dig into the growing season. This is also the time of year when we start to embrace the first fresh bits of greenery from the garden and local farms, and when seasonal eating means more enjoyment direct from the ground to our kitchen.

Curtiss Hemm knows a lot about food. He loves to teach and get people passionate about food any time of the year. He’s the former Dean of Culinary Arts at the New England Culinary Institute in Burlington, and has also taught at Paul Smiths College.

Water levels in Lake Ontario remain more than a foot above average for this time of year. With rain in the forecast, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has directed state agencies to begin deploying resources to protect communities along the lake and the St. Lawrence River - from Buffalo to Massena.