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A man from Kashmir who came to the Adirondacks to compete in a snowshoe race has been indicted for allegedly having inappropriate contact a 12-year-old Saranac Lake girl.Tanveer Hussain faces charges of sexual abuse and endangering the welfare of a child.

The often-reticent New York Assembly Speaker, Carl Heastie, showed a different side of himself when the lifelong "Star Trek" fan visited a museum in New York's North Country that replicates the fictional Starship Enterprise.

One of Canada's award-winning ensembles is celebrating a milestone of ten years of making music with a new album, and a tour that includes a concert in Blue Mountain Lake at the Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts on Saturday night at 7:30 pm.The Sultans of String celebrate world musical fusion with fiery violin dances, Latin guitar, and a bass sound that adds a layer of depth.They've hit #15 on Billboard's world music charts, #1 across Canada on world music charts, and have received multiple awards and accolades. They've performed with such luminaries as The Chieftains and Sweet Honey in the Rock. But the group's fiddler, Chris McKhool, told Todd Moe that they really love being on the road and performing in small venues.

Ferns invented nectar - a sugary reward - long before flowering plants evolved. But instead of using it to attract pollinators, the bracken fern uses it as "protection money," paying off ants and other predatory insects that will keep voracious caterpillars away when the plants are young and vulnerable.Martha Foley and Curt Stager unveil the mobster economics of nature.

With Congress deadlocked over immigration reform, lawmakers have proposed some quick fixes to alleviate the labor crunch in the dairy industry, and in agriculture overall. But many farmers and farmworkers say they're small band aids for a big problem.

No state does economic development quite like New York. Under Governor Andrew Cuomo's administration, spending on job programs and business development has skyrocketed to $8 billion a year - more than any other state. But does it work?

A hiker missing in the High Peaks region of the Adirondacks was found dead yesterday following a search that involved seventeen forest rangers and a state police helicopter. He's been identified as Skip Baker, age 50, from the town of Webster near Rochester.

Long-time activist and Green Party candidate Matt Funiciello says he won't be running for Congress in 2018. In an email sent to news outlets Tuesday afternoon, Funiciello said he can't afford to spend the "thousands of hours these races took away from my work and family."

Two replica Christopher Columbus ships are sailing across the Great Lakes this summer, offering visitors a chance to learn about the famous explorer's voyages. But some say the ships only tell half of a story.

State Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie has been touring parts of New York State north and west of Albany, and he was in the North Country on Tuesday. One of his stops was the Bombardier factory in Plattsburgh, where about 250 workers are building subway cars for New York and other cities. The visit came at a sensitive time. In New York City, trains are being canceled. Air conditioning is failing. There's overcrowding. Subway cars have derailed. Governor Andrew Cuomo has called it the "summer of hell."