Essex County News

The North Country already has a bike trail connecting Glens Falls and Lake George, but now community leaders are pushing for one that stretches all the way to Essex County.

The Essex County Board of Supervisors has approved a measure that changes last call for bars and nightclubs from 4 am to 3 am.

The Plattsburgh Press-Republican reports that 20-year-old Scott Denno was found guilty Wednesday by an Essex County jury.

Lawmakers in the northern New York county that's home to Lake Placid have approved a measure requiring bars to close an hour earlier.

Rebecca Hoskins poked through the debris in her flood-wrecked house: a TV here, a light fixture there.

Rebecca Hoskins poked through the debris in her flood-wrecked house: a TV here, a light fixture there.

State transportation officials say they've postponed a project to repair the slopes along one of the main roads in the Adirondack Mountains.

State Police are appealing for the public's help as they investigate an ATV crash this week in Essex County killed a Ballston Spa man.

Localities in Montgomery County are eligible to receive up to $3 million in state and federal aid to pay for rebuilding in communities affected by storms Irene and Lee in 2011.

For years there's been talk of a casino in Rochester - now there is talk of one in Lake George.

A plan to build and upgrade emergency communications towers on four summits in the Adirondack Park is sparking new controversy because of the possible impact on a rare songbird called the Bicknell's thrush.

Construction begins Wednesday on a stretch of Route 73 between Lake Placid and Keene.