A trade panel in the US has overturned the Trump administration's tariff on Canadian newsprint, imposed earlier this year. The decision is a victory for Canada and a relief to newspapers here in the North Country faced with rising paper prices.

A debate over debates is emerging in the North Country’s race for Congress.

Governor Andrew Cuomo and his democratic primary challenger Cynthia Nixon squared off in the only debate before the September 13 election in a testy and contentious hour-long discussion broadcast by CBS2 in New York City from Hofstra University on Long Island.

These days, it’s hard to imagine politics without digging up dirt on the other side. That’s what political tracking is all about: following candidates and constantly filming their public statements.

Most carnivorous plants, such as the pitcher plant commonly found in Adirondack bogs, live in poor soils. Unwary insects are drawn to a sweet bait to supplement their diet. Curt Stager and Martha Foley discuss these botanical oddballs, which may live as long as 50 years.

North Country Public Radio has learned that national Republicans paid up to five trackers to monitor the Democratic candidates running against Congresswoman Elise Stefanik.

Almost a year ago, 27 current and former SUNY Plattsburgh students were arrested for hazing at the Pi Alpha Nu fraternity house off campus. The allegations included paddling, illegal alcohol consumption, and demeaning behavior. Those criminal cases just wrapped up this summer, and according to the Plattsburgh Press Republican, most of the accused saw their charges reduced or dismissed.

A massive wave of thunderstorms ripped across northern New York and parts of Canada on July 15, 1995. The microbursts flattened over 100,000 acres of timber in the Adirondack Park and damaged almost a million acres total.

The end of August used to be considered a slow season in politics, but television ads released by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his Republican challenger, Marc Molinaro, are getting heated.

Earlier this summer Paul Seward, a long-time emergency physician who retired last year, published a memoir called "Patient Care: Death and Life in the Emergency Room." Dr. Seward spent his childhood at the North Country School - the boarding school in Lake Placid - and returned to work in the Adirondacks from 2000 to 2017, including time spent as the Director of the Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital and Adirondack Medical Center.

His book draws from his experiences working as an emergency room physician all over the country. When he entered the field, it was still young, having been pioneered by a few hospitals in the 1960s.