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Agency to vote on proposed Adirondack resort

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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- The Adirondack Park Agency plans to vote this week on whether to approve a proposed 6,200-acre, year-round resort and residential development in Tupper Lake. The agency, a sort of zoning board for the park, will consider the...... Full story

Adirondack train plan rankles environmental groups

Associated Press

GLENS FALLS, N.Y. (AP) -- A railroad's plan to haul freight over 30 miles of track through the Adirondacks continues to draw criticism. Iowa Pacific plans to open a freight service between Newcomb and North River on the so-called Tahawus (tuh-HAWS)...... Full story

State cracking down on parasailing companies

Associated Press

LAKE GEORGE -- A state agency is cracking down on parasailing companies operating on Lake George after a gust of wind blew two parasailers into trees and capsized the boat that was towing them. The Glens Falls Post-Star reports that the...... Full story

Court rejects challenges to Adirondack regulations

Associated Press

ALBANY -- A midlevel New York court has rejected two legal challenges to the Adirondack Park Agency's 2008 regulations on shoreline structures, hunting cabins and some other private land uses. The Appellate Division panel, dismissing claims...... Full story

Bikers collide with bear on Adirondack road

Associated Press

TUPPER LAKE -- Police say a Canadian couple has escaped serious injuries after their three-wheel motorcycle crashed when it struck a black bear running across an Adirondack road. According to state 69-year-old Robert MacIntyre of Orangeville,...... Full story

Catskills to get new highway signs touting region

Associated Press

Catskills to get new highway signs touting region Eds: APNewsNow. ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- The Catskill Park is getting new highway signs and a new logo to promote the region's natural beauty. The signs are the...... Full story

NY pays legal fees of Adirondack farmer

ELIZABETHTOWN, N.Y. (AP) -- State officials have paid $72,000 in legal fees to an Adirondack farm owner who successfully sued over his right to build housing for his workers. Sandy Lewis of Essex sued the Adirondack Park Agency after it asserted...... Full story

Sikorsky cuts 386 jobs at upstate plant

Associated Press

BIG FLATS -- Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. is laying off nearly 400 workers at its factory in upstate New York because of what the company says is a lull in orders for military helicopters. The announcement Thursday by the Stratford, Conn.-based...... Full story

Feds unveil plan to combat bat-killing fungus

MATTHEW DALY / Associated Press

WASHINGTON -- The Interior Department is unveiling a national plan to combat a fungus that has killed more than a million bats in the eastern and southern United States and is spreading west. The fungus has caused a disease, called white-nose...... Full story

Man admits molesting child, filming crime

Associated Press

ALBANY -- A northern New York man faces 15 to 30 years in prison after admitting that he molested child and filmed the crime. Federal prosecutors say Aaron Martinez of Saranac Lake pleaded guilty to producing child pornography, admitting he...... Full story

Trudeau, Pauley to Adirondacks for hospital gala

Associated Press

SARANAC LAKE-- Doonesbury cartoonist Garry Trudeau and his wife, former NBC "Today" show host Jane Pauley, will co-host a gala marking the centennial of the Adirondack Medical Center. The July 9 celebration will mark a homecoming for Trudeau, who...... Full story

Amtrak's Albany-to-Montreal service to resume

Associated Press

ALBANY -- Amtrak is resuming passenger service between Albany and Montreal, a day after trains were halted because of flooding along a stretch of tracks in the eastern Adirondacks. CP Rail owns the north-south tracks used by Amtrak, which runs one...... Full story

Lake Champlain flooding delaying Vt-NY bridge work

Associated Press

ADDISON, Vt. -- Flooding on Lake Champlain is delaying construction on a new bridge from Vermont to New York. Work was under way to prepare a marina in Port Henry, N.Y., for the arrival of the steel that will be used to make the new bridge's arch....... Full story

Empire State Winter Games to grow from 3 days to 4

Associated Press

LAKE PLACID -- The organizers of next winter's Empire State games say the event will expand from three days to four to include more sports and an educational element for student athletes. The games will run from Feb. 2 through Feb. 5, including a...... Full story

Adirondack towns tallying up cost of storm damage | Photo Gallery, Video

Chris White and Associated Press

MORIAH -- Officials in an Adirondack county ravaged by flooding continue to tally the damage caused when severe thunderstorms sent torrents of runoff coursing through mountain communities. [PHOTO GALLERY: 4/28 Storm and Flooding] Send your...... Full story