It will be very cold today and tonight, and remain below freezing through the weekend. There is deep snow, at least one to two feet, around the Adirondack Park and more at higher elevations, as much as 5-6 feet in some places, and the risk of avalanches on steep open terrain remains.

A proposal in the State Senate to roll back part of the state’s recently enacted bail reforms produced an angry backlash from supporters of the law, which took effect January 1 and ended most forms of cash bail for non-violent crimes in New York.

Whiteface Mountain in the Adirondacks has seen a rash of equipment thefts this winter, people seeing their skis and snowboards vanish from the racks.

People on Medicaid in St. Lawrence County who don’t have a car could find it harder to get to non-medical appointments. That’s because one of the main transit groups in the area is quickly running out of funding.

The big marine herbivore, the manatee, is thought by some to be the origin of mermaid legends, but it's not closely related to humankind or even to whales and other marine mammals.

If Disney never made the 2004 movie “Miracle,” most Americans born after 1980 may not have heard of Lake Placid, its Winter Olympics that year or the famed “Miracle on Ice” hockey game between the United States and the Soviet Union.

Yet Lake Placid can trace its Olympic lineage to 1920, when this tiny Adirondack village hosted its first internationally sanctioned event - the North American speed skating championships on Mirror Lake for U.S. and Canadian athletes.