Martha Foley returns to the first question she asked Curt Stager when the program (then called "Field Notes") began decades ago. Why do mosquitos bite?

Local officials are condemning racism after a noose was discovered outside the home of a Black family in Massena over the weekend.

An off-duty police officer from the Capital Region fired multiple shots from his service weapon during a confrontation with a group of Black kids in the Adirondacks in early June. That's according to new reporting in the Albany Times-Union.

The officer, who is white, is not facing disciplinary or criminal charges following the incident in Elizabethtown. State police say they’ve closed their investigation into the case.

Emily Russell spoke with Times-Union reporter Robert Gavin who broke the story on Tuesday.

State Senator Betty Little is one of the newest board members of the Olympic Regional Development Agency.

The St. Regis Mohawk Tribe is issuing new restrictions after confirming ten new coronavirus cases in about a week. A cluster of cases were linked to a gathering at a camp on the St. Lawrence River. But the two newest cases were not traced back to that event.