German teammates Julia Taubitz and Merle Fraebel have pulled away after the first two runs of the women’s singles luge event at the Milan Cortina Olympics, opening up a sizable lead over the rest of ...

Forest Rangers with the state Department of Environmental Conservation responded to one call in the Adirondacks last week. It involved two hikers and their dog on Haystack Mountain. The hikers lacked ...

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” — George Santayana, The Life of Reason (1905). Last week, while trying to avoid the news of the day I channel surfed and found CNN’s ...

When it comes to defining “essential” for a community, emergency medical services always finds itself at the top of the list. So when the Tupper Lake Volunteer Ambulance and Emergency Squad put out a ...

The New York Assembly Republicans have a new leader. On Monday, the Assembly Republican conference voted unanimously to elevate Edward P. Ra, a Long Island lawmaker with an established profile, to ...

The U.S. may have only one sled in an Olympic two-man bobsled competition for the first time in the nearly century-long history of the event, after the sport’s governing body denied an appeal to give ...

Is there such a thing as “too much of a good thing?” It seems that every time I walk the Bloomingdale Bog trail, someone has added more feeders or food to the trail section of the old Chateaugay ...

While the eyes of the ski world may be trained on Italy as the Olympic Winter Games take place over the next couple of weeks, ...

Philipp Raimund of Germany led two other Olympic rookies and a veteran of the Games who never reached the podium past a field ...

The local High Peaks Skating Academy brought home the silver medal on Sunday during the Empire State Winter Games’ ...

When Cayden Egelston plopped the 10.29-pound northern pike he caught down on the scale, Northern Challenge ice fishing derby organizer Scott LaLonde had a hunch that would be heavy enough to seal the ...

The Section VII Nordic ski teams finished up their regular season Thursday at the Scotts Cobble Nordic Center. After battling cold temperatures for much of the season, the teams competed under sunny ...