With less than a week to go to the budget deadline, interest groups converged on the state Capitol, lobbying to get their measures included in the budget plan, and in some cases, to keep items out.

U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents based in Ogdensburg made two separate arrests in the last week involving illegal possession of marijuana.

By North Country standards, Glens Falls Hospital is on the big side. And it’s old, founded in 1897.

The hospital sits up high over the Hudson River, on the edge of downtown. It anchors health care for five diverse counties, including Warren, Washington, northern Saratoga, Essex, Hamilton and northern Rensselaer counties. About 6,000 square miles, including remote Adirondack communities, small cities, and plenty of suburbia. Besides the main campus, it runs 23 regional health care facilities.

But the hospital is struggling to get past a $38-million deficit that developed in 2017, and another $18 million in 2018. A hole big enough to swallow a hospital.

(Mar 25, 2019) Last week marked the start of spring, and it's worth celebrating the truly old-fashioned winter we just had in the North Country. Emily Russell sent a postcard from Wright Peak in the Adirondacks.

NCPR's new "texting club" is a place to share stories, ask questions and find tips for getting by in the North Country.

The Adirondack Park contains six million acres, mostly forest. If you were a thriller writer and wanted to write a book set in the Adirondacks, how would you use that vast remoteness as part of your plot? Betsy Kepes decided to find out. But she told Todd Moe that she didn't read all the thrillers that are set in the Adirondacks - there are a lot.

The new state budget, due April 1, will be first one decided by an all-Democratic state legislature in a decade, after Republicans ruled the Senate for most of the past century. And while the leadership of the Senate and Assembly have been newly reasserting their governing powers, when it comes to the spending plan, there’s only so far that they can go in their disagreements with Governor Andrew Cuomo.

A couple of North Country teams brought home big championships over the weekend.

Clarkson University's men's hockey team won the Eastern Conference title in Lake Placid and the Glens Falls boys high school team captured a statewide title.

Meanwhile, an athlete from Clarkson was named the best women's hockey player in the country.

In a changing climate, people living on Lake Ontario may be more at risk for flooding and extreme weather, so what compels them to stay?