ALBANY — The State Department of Environmental Conservation Wednesday, July 12 issued a high-water advisory following recent heavy rains and is urging hikers to postpone hikes near waterways and on high-elevation trails. DEC advises hikers on how to recreate safely and reduce negative impacts ...

LONG LAKE — Roads washed out, dams and bridges were damaged, and streets flooded, leaving it impossible to cross from one end of the town of Long Lake to the other after heavy rainfall from Monday night, July 10, to Tuesday morning. Torrential rainfall caused massive infrastructure ...

LONG LAKE -- The town of Long Lake Tuesday morning declared a state of emergency due to severe flooding in the heart of the hamlet, an event that has heavily damaged highways, sidewalks, dams and bridges and forced road closures to nearby communities such as Newcomb. Town Supervisor Clay ...

LAKE PLACID — For Mike Eruzione’s grandchildren, most of their knowledge of what happened here on Feb. 22, 1980, was through the 2004 film “Miracle” and that’s only for those who have seen it. Mike’s son Mike Eruzione Jr. said his kids had seen the movie but hadn’t ...

LAKE PLACID — When Lake Placid Middle-High School Class of 2023 graduate Chris Byrne was a kid, he and his family spent weekends meandering through the Henry’s Woods Trail System on Bear Cub Lane. Byrne wasn’t the biggest fan of the trail system itself, but he was all about the ...

SARANAC LAKE — Lucas “Loo” Tendler was born curious, sweet and silly. He was a maker of funny faces and a collector of LEGOs and old coins. Smart and wise beyond his years, Tendler led a robust life filled with promise that was cut short when he died in a car crash on McKenzie Pond Road ...