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Dozens of northern Adirondack artists are opening their art spaces to the public during the Artist at Work Studio Tour this weekend. The event gives art admirers some insight into "how they do that."This year, there's a new twist to the popular open studio event. Artists in the Saranac Lake area will offer an extended tour season. They'll open their workspaces to visitors on the last weekend of this month, starting Friday, and for the next six months. The tour weekends highlight some of the amazing talent of artists and craftspeople - painters, potters, photographers - who live and work in Saranac Lake and the surrounding communities.Todd Moe spoke with three artists participating this year.

The State Assembly voted in the early hours of Thursday morning on a bill that takes care of some unfinished business in the 2017 legislative session. After Governor Cuomo called a special session Wednesday, lawmakers agreed to extend the New York City Mayor's control of the schools for two more years, and gave counties permission to charge sales tax for three more years. The Senate and Assembly had left those items unfinished when they ended the session June 21.

Plattsburgh is getting a new mural soon. It's the latest project from Outside Art, a nonprofit group that's already helped to bring four murals to the city. This one will be three dimensional and interactive. It'll be a garden scene, made of clay tiles, on the outside wall of the Plattsburgh Public Library. There will also be a giant marble set that looks like a rain cycle: like raindrops, the marbles will travel up a giant sunflower and roll down through clouds. The mural has been in the works since late 2016, and with lots of help from the public, it's almost finished.

The red fox isn't always red. The silver fox, for example, is the same species. But they will usually have a white tail tip and always wear black "boots." You can find the red fox pretty much everywhere, from the North Country back yard to the Australian Outback.

It's been a banner year for the Ogdensburg airport, which recently broke its record for the number of passengers traveling in and out. But things could get a lot slower this summer now that the premiere airline serving Ogdensburg is temporarily shutting down.

LAKE GEORGE, N.Y. (AP) State environmental protection officials are still trying to trace the source of bacteria that has forced the several closures of a popular Adirondack lake beach dating back to last summer.

FORT DRUM, N.Y. (AP) The author of a book on the 10th Mountain Division's exploits during World War II is giving a talk at the storied Army unit's northern New York home.

Republicans in the U.S. Senate temporarily shelved a healthcare bill yesterday that they say would repeal and replace Obamacare. The Republican measure came under fire after officials with the Congressional Budget Office released an analysis showing it would mean more than 20 million Americans losing health insurance.

One week after the New York state legislature declared the 2017 session over, Governor Cuomo is commanding that lawmakers return for a special session at 1 pm Wednesday to deal with some unfinished business.

Dramatic testimony in the hearing on whether former gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino should be ousted from the Buffalo school board. Paladino took the stand, and apologized for racist comments he made last December regarding President and Mrs. Obama.