Fort Drum is making final preparations for its first presidential visit since Barack Obama came to the Army base near Watertown in 2011.

The Lake George Music Festival kicks off on Sunday. It's two weeks of live chamber music, orchestra and children's concerts, and pre-performance workshops.Composer David Ludwig is one of the featured artists at the annual Music festival. His new composition "Paganiniana" gets its premiere next week. It's a tribute to Italian composer and violinist Niccolo Paganini, and some of Ludwig's violinist friends.Ludwig comes from several generations of eminent musicians including grandfather Rudolf Serkin and great-grandfather Adolf Busch. He teaches at the Curtis Institute of Music, and he told Todd Moe that he enjoys a busy summer of music festivals.

All the pet hamsters in the world derive from a small wild population collected in Syria in the 1930s. Martha Foley and Curt Stager talk about hamsters, in the wild and working the wheel.

St. Lawrence County artist Alice Antwine is putting the finishing touches on her largest hooked rug project ever - a full scale effigy of 13th century knight Sir John d'Aubernon.

Saranac Lake checked off another big economic milestone yesterday, winning a $10 million economic development grant from New York state. Governor Andrew Cuomo made the announcement in person at the Hotel Saranac, which reopened last winter thanks in part to another big taxpayer investment.The village beat other North Country communities competing for the Downtown Revitalization Initiative grant, including Canton, Potsdam and Massena. Martha Foley talked with Peter Crowley, managing editor of the Adirondack Daily Enterprise, about Saranac Lake’s winning strategy, and how the money will likely be spent.

New hotels, big new taxpayer investment for Adirondack village

The Trump Administration's plans to provide direct support to dairy farms as part of a $12 billion package to offset the impacts of its trade policies is welcome news to many in New York, which is the third-highest milk producing state in the country. But with no end in sight to sustained low milk prices and oversupply in the industry, some are worried about the long-term impact to rural regions like the North Country.

Miniseries directed by Ben Stiller treats the prison escape and manhunt that rocked the North Country in 2015.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is making the rounds of national news programs now that he has become the target of a lawsuit by the National Rifle Association.