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We’'e looking at our third warm Friday in a row, and that has had an impact on our snow pack.

Democratic state legislators are beginning the New Year with some resentment towards Democratic governor Andrew Cuomo over a deal that gives them a big raise - but comes with several strings attached.

An effort to prevent scurvy in U.S. troops led to the growth of the orange juice industry, popularizing what had been a relatively obscure beverage.

A group of middle school singers in Plattsburgh raised money last year to produce their first album, and is preparing to compete in an international vocal competition next month. Fermata Nowhere, Stafford Middle School's a cappella group, released its first professionally record music CD, "Shine," at a party last month.

While genetically modified crops are the result of the intentional introduction of "foreign" genes by humans for a specific agricultural purpose, it turns out that nature uses the same trick all the time.

The start of the new year brings a new board of legislators in St. Lawrence County. Fifteen people were sworn in yesterday at the county courthouse in Canton. The political balance is new, so is the gender balance.

Ogdensburg Republican Joseph Lightfoot will serve as chairman and David Forsythe, also a Republican, from Lisbon, as vice-chairman.

In 2011, after years of work and fundraising organizers in Saranac Lake opened the first community-owned department store in New York state. It was an experimental effort to replace the Ames department store chain, which left the North Country in 2002.

On Jan. 9, Democrats will officially take over the state Senate for only the third time in more than a century.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo says he expects a "big field" of Democrats will step up to run for president in 2020.

Governor Andrew Cuomo began his third term in office with a speech at the historic site of Ellis Island, where the ancestors of millions of Americans arrived as immigrants in the 19th and 20th centuries. He focused much of his speech not on state issues, but instead on what he sees as the nation's problems, and said New York will lead the fight against them.