People with disabilities have been fighting for years for the right to live where they choose. Often, they’re housed in group homes or other institutions - places that have become the deadly during the coronavirus pandemic.

In cli-fi, or climate fiction, writers speculate what will happen in the future if the Earth is devastated by climate change. Cherie Dimaline, a Metis writer from Georgian Bay, imagines a world where indigenous people are on the run.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday that, after several months of asking Congress for state aid, New York is now at the end of its rope and could be forced to make billions of dollars of cuts to its state budget if that funding doesn’t come through in the next two weeks.

Farmers are used to unpredictability - in the weather, in markets, in the fields. But COVID-19 is throwing New York agriculture a much bigger curveball than what farms usually have to deal with.

About two thirds of farmers in New York State say their business has been negatively affected by the coronavirus pandemic. That’s according to the New York Farm Bureau, which conducted an informal survey of over 500 of its members.

Since the pandemic began, New York has released 1400 people, all non-violent offenders. But thousands of elderly people in prison aren’t being considered for release, because they’re in for a violent crime, even if they’ve served decades of their sentence and studies show they’re unlikely to reoffend. It turns out, that’s a stance even liberal politicians like Governor Andrew Cuomo so far aren’t willing to take.

The number of new positive COVID-19 cases in St. Lawrence County is increasing. So far this month, 31 new cases have been recorded; that’s about double the number for all of June. Jefferson County also saw an increase, related to boating parties along the St. Lawrence River. So we asked: Could these numbers imperil the North Country’s reopening?