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After release of devastating independent report, Bishop LaValley denies playing any role reassigning abusive clergy or covering up their crimes after he became a diocesan official in the 1990s. "Not to my knowledge, no," LaValley told NCPR. "I am not aware of... I do not believe that took place."

Democratic Assemblywoman Addie Jenne and her Republican challenger, Mark Walczyk, faced off in their first - and perhaps only - debate Monday night in Canton.

Saranac Lake's Community Store got national media attention when it opened in 2011, but now, after seven years in business, it announced last week it plans to change its name as part of a rebranding effort.

Peter Crowley, managing editor of the Adirondack Daily Enterprise newspaper in Saranac Lake, joins Martha Foley to talk about the move.

Canton native Drew Matott has traveled around the world using handmade paper as a form of art therapy. He's co-founder of the Peace Paper Project, an international organization of hand paper makers, artists and social advocates.

The stretch SUV limousine that crashed Saturday near Albany, killing all 20 people aboard was not supposed to be on the road at all.

Two Champlain Valley communities have voted to move forward with a proposed merger of their schools.

The Elizabethtown-Lewis and Westport districts in Essex County each held a non-binding straw poll on Tuesday. More than a thousand people turned out to cast ballots, with a majority in favor of a merger.

Emails obtained by NCPR show that Rep. Elise Stefanik’s office pressured the employee of a North Country college last year to cut ties with organizers of a town hall meeting on healthcare.

Two gun rights groups are giving North Country Congresswoman Elise Stefanik an "A" rating and her Democratic opponent Tedra Cobb an "F" grade.

Both candidates are on the ballot in November for the 21st district House seat, along with Green candidate Lynn Kahn.

Democrat Tedra Cobb, one of three candidates in the North Country’s House race, is apologizing for calling out a reporter during a public event over the weekend. Cobb, from Canton, was reacting to an editorial critical of her campaign that ran in the Sun Community News.

A ceremony for the victims of the limousine crash that killed 20 people Saturday ended last night with participants lifting candles above their heads to signal unity and perseverance.

Over 1,000 people jammed a riverside park in Amsterdam, for the vigil. Some victims lived in that small city.