Top Stories from NCPR

Saranac Lake antiques expert Ted Comstock has a great respect for Adirondack-North Country history and artifacts. At the top of his list is the Adirondack guideboat. It allowed outdoorsmen and tourists to navigate on and between Adirondack waters.

Today long, silver milk tankers are a commonplace sight on the road. But they are relatively "new" technology for transporting milk, and represent a host of other changes in the dairy industry, from milk storage to bigger herds to consolidated dairy plants.

Student interns are digging into organic farming at the St. Lawrence University Sustainability Farm. Celine Schreiber and resident homesteader Sam Joseph are in the big vegetable garden, tending freshly transplanted planted tomatoes. Celine wraps string around stakes in the ground that will help guide the young vines upwards.The tomatoes and other veggies feed the interns at the farm and students at Dana Dining Hall. These four interns get a chance to try out new farming techniques and experience a summer living off the land.

(Jul 10, 2017) Lots of people around the North Country watch fireworks for the Fourth of July holiday. It's a perfect night to set up a picnic blanket and watch those huge, dazzling colors explode overhead.

I did something different.

(Jul 10, 2017) Pat Dominie was born in Russell to a dairy farming family in 1935. She can remember her grandparents working exclusively with horses to plow and hay. Over the course of her lifetime, Pat was an eyewitness to huge changes in the dairy industry here in the St. Lawrence Valley, from five-cow farms to 2,000-cow operations, early tractors to thousand-gallon milk tanks.

A state police trooper and a 27-year-old woman were killed Sunday night as part of an apparent domestic violence incident in Jefferson County. Governor Andrew Cuomo has ordered flags on state buildings flown at half-mast in honor of Trooper Joel Davis.Davis was responding to a domestic violence incident in the town of Theresa. Officials say 27-year-old Nichole Walters was found dead at the scene. A suspect is in custody.

It's been just over two weeks since ride-hailing services have been permitted outside New York City, and Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he's pleased so far.Cuomo pushed to allow companies, including Uber and Lyft, to operate in upstate and on Long Island, and service began June 29.

This year's 4th of July parade in Norwood was a political coming out party for the attorneys who are vying to become St. Lawrence County's next head prosecutor.

Lots of people around the North Country watched fireworks last week for the Fourth of July holiday. It was a perfect night to set up a picnic blanket and watch those huge, dazzling colors explode overhead. I did something different that night.

It's transition time in the garden, time to clean up the early bloomers. Cooperative Extension's Amy Ivy has tips on tidying up peonies, iris, daffodils and other spent blooms. And she has a tip on her favorite flower for this point in the succession - cat mints: Six Hills Giant and Walker's Low.