Emily Russell, NCPR
Emily Russell is the Adirondack reporter and assistant news director at North Country Public Radio.
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The Democrat and dairy farmer from the St. Lawrence County town of Lisbon is running against Republican Anthony Constantino, the CEO of a sticker company based in Amsterdam, just outside of the 21st district. -
Matt Simpson’s path to the New York State Assembly opened up about six years ago. Republican state Sen. Betty Little was retiring, and Dan Stec was running to replace her. That meant Stec’s seat representing the 114th Assembly District was up for grabs. -
New York State Nurses Association is currently negotiating a new contract with the hospital in Saranac Lake. One of the union's goals is to gain access to the Benefits Fund, which NYSNA says offers nurses "better and more affordable health benefits to nurses" than the hospital's healthcare plan. -
Town officials in Massena are supporting a massive data center there. Now, a smaller project has been proposed in the small town of Chateaugay near the Canadian border. As Emily Russell reports for the New York Public News Network, some people there are pushing back. -
Last week, news broke that New York State was looking into building a brand new, large-scale prison. Now, the state has withdrawn its proposal. -
For the first time in history, charitable giving surpassed 600 billion dollars. But only a small fraction of that money ends up in rural America, places like upstate New York. -
Lyme Timber Company owns more than a quarter-of-a-million acres of land in the Adirondacks, including more than 16,000 acres in the southern St. Lawrence County towns of Colton and Piercefield. It's on that tract of land that Lyme Timber wants to log about 680 acres. -
A popular trail in the Adirondacks has been closed for more than a year after heavy rain triggered a massive landslide. Volunteers have been working this summer to clean up and rebuild the trail through Avalanche Pass. -
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It’s mid-May at the Long Lake Fish and Game Club and the students are part of the Long Lake school district’s Clay Target Club. Furlong, who teaches math and science, is the club's advisor.
