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The first time Marta Foley went snorkeling on a coral reef, she was staggered by the abundance and diversity of marine life. Doing the same in an Adirondack lake one might see a lot of mud and a snail. She asks Dr. Curt Stager of Paul Smith's College what the difference might be.

A state prison in Ray Brook has been converted to hold 16- and 17-year-old males from all over the state. It’s one of two facilities for teens planned by the state. Peter Crowley, managing editor of the Adirondack Daily Enterprise, talks to Martha Foley about the transition.

A new survey shows a razor-thin margin in New York’s 22nd House district, which includes a small slice of the North Country and the Adirondack Park. Republican Claudia Tenney is locked in a close race with Democratic challenger.

Police are on the scene in lower Manhattan this morning, where a city bomb squad removed a suspicious package from a building associated with actor Robert DiNiro.

Former State Senate leader Dean Skelos was sentenced to four years and three months in prison Wednesday, after he and his son Adam were convicted on charges of extortion and bribery.

Incumbent Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul is the frontrunner in her race for reelection.

She’s been campaigning on her own behalf across the state.

And as her running mate, Andrew Cuomo, focuses his messaging on criticism of President Donald Trump, Hochul is filling out the argument for reelecting the Democratic ticket.

She talked with Albany correspondent Karen DeWitt.

Governor Andrew Cuomo and his republican challenger, Marc Molinaro, engaged in a testy debate that centered on corruption in state government and the candidate's views, and relationships, with President Donald Trump.

The North Country's congressional candidates faced off at their first live debate at Mountain Lake PBS in Plattsburgh Tuesday afternoon. Republican Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, Democrat Tedra Cobb, and Green Party Candidate Lynn Kahn sparred over taxes, health care, the environment.

Kahn shook things up.

Caretaking for summer homes and camps has been a way for people to make a living in the Adirondack North Country for well over 100 years, and Upper Saint Regis Lake in the northeastern Adirondacks is home to some of the oldest, biggest, most Gilded-Age camps around.

The lake’s residents arrive here each summer from all around the country to spend time at "camp" - multi-million dollar, water-access only properties nestled behind walls of pine. They require a lot of upkeep, and that’s where the job of caretaker comes in.

Gov. Cuomo and other state officials are facing a lawsuit over plans to create a new oversight board for New York’s prosecutors. Those plans, partly inspired by problems with St. Lawrence County DA Mary Rain, became law in August after years of debate. A group that represents DAs statewide says the law is not constitutional.