Mary Ann Margrey grew up in Carthage, and while she didn’t attend Augustinian Academy, she attended religion class there each week. She also knew from the age of five that she wanted to be a teacher; she used to set up school settings and play teacher to her siblings.

So it’s not too much of a surprise that in 2017, she became the private Catholic school’s first ever layperson to be principal.

Though medical marijuana is legal in most states, the Department of Veterans Affairs will neither recommend nor prescribe it because of a longstanding federal law.

Tuesday was the last full day of the New York Association of Counties fall seminar in Rochester, where weather and climate were the topic of the keynote address.

Approximately 5 million veterans live in rural America, and almost 60 percent of them rely on VA healthcare. But accessing that care can be a challenge: the nearest VA hospital could be hours away, and public transportation is sparse.

The North Country may be a long way from Uganda in West Africa but when a Canton native met a man who survived two and a half years as a child soldier in the Ugandan Civil War, she knew she had to help him tell his story.

A series of roundtable discussions was hosted Monday by the NYSAC (New York State Association of Counties) Women's Leadership Council, a statewide program focused specifically on providing support to women in county government. NYSAC is holding its fall seminar in Rochester this week.

Rivers are still rising in some areas along the coasts of the Carolinas - and there are more evacuation warnings as officials watch for more flooding a week after Hurricane Florence. Brian Mann is just home from helping NPR cover the storm. As he gets back to work here in the North Country, we have a story from Brian's reporter's notebook.

It's about the animals he met in the South separated from their owners by the disaster. And about the hundreds of volunteers working to reunite as many of those pets as possible.

Independent candidate for governor Stephanie Miner is keeping the heat on Governor Cuomo and the state Democratic party for a mailer sent out during the party primary that accused the governor’s opponent, Cynthia Nixon, of anti-Semitism.

Residents around Ottawa are trying to recover after two tornadoes damaged hundreds of homes and businesses Friday evening. As of Sunday evening, more than 80,000 residences remained without electricity.

Governor Cuomo's former closest aid received a prison sentence today of six years after being convicted of illegally gaining over $300,000 in bribery schemes.