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North Country Congresswoman Elise Stefanik was at the center of a fierce debate yesterday in Washington over the Violence Against Women Act.

Stefanik, a Republican, urged lawmakers to pass a version of the bill to help protect women from domestic violence. But she fought to drop new gun control restrictions affecting people convicted of misdemeanor abuse and stalking charges.

When state lawmakers return later this month for a post-budget session, they hope to tackle several issues, including trying to curb the number of robocalls that New Yorkers receive.

The second co-ed sport at SUNY Canton and the first official collegiate cheer team in the North Country begins practices on campus.

We think of evolution as moving in a linear progression from the sea to the land. But some creatures, such as whales and dolphins, clearly adapted to the land, then returned to the sea. Dr. Curt Stager and Martha Foley talk about convergent evolution.

State education officials canceled computerized testing for New York’s third- through eighth-grade students on Wednesday after a software glitch prevented some students from being able to complete - and in some cases, even begin - the tests.

New York is now the second state in the U.S. to ban single-use plastic bags. The ban was part of the state’s 2020 budget passed over the weekend.

A resolution to end funding for the Women's Hall of Fame if Jane Fonda was inducted failed to pass a Seneca Falls Town board meeting Tuesday night. But that was only after over an hour of passionate debate between Hall supporters and Vietnam Veterans on the actresses actions in the 1970s.

A commission to examine a public campaign finance system for statewide elections in New York may also look at whether to continue the state’s practice of what’s known as fusion voting.

The practice allows more than one political party to support the same candidate on the ballot, a practice that resulted in the Democratic and Republican candidates for governor appearing on six different ballot lines in 2018.

It’s spring. The maple sap is still flowing. So, why not celebrate the season with adding maple syrup to a favorite dish.