Reporter Kim Smith Dedam reports that Sen. Charles Schumer is fighting to keep close to $1 million in federal water-testing programs in place. The research, he said, is vital to 30-year sustained efforts to gauge the effects of acid rain. (more...)

Reporter Nathan Brown reports that lawyers for the Association for the Protection of the Adirondacks and Philadelphia-area developer Michael Foxman reached an agreement on how to mediate their differences on the Big Tupper Ski Project. (more...)

Reporter Martha Foley reports that developers of the proposed Adirondack Club and Resort have agreed to enter mediation with opponents of the Tupper Lake project. To hear the audio, click here: LINK (more...)

Reporter Kim Smith Dedam reports that the Adirondack Chapter of the Nature Conservancy is closing in on strategic plans to sell, lease and keep parcels of the 161,000 acres it purchased from Finch, Pruyn & Company last June, Executive Director Michael Carr said in an interview. (more...)

Reporter Kim Smith Dedam reports that lawmakers are watching the Nature Conservancy disposition strategy with great interest in how the conservation group proposes to sell some of its land to the state. (more...)

A news brief notes that Sen. Charles Schumer announced Thursday he was successful in halting proposed cuts by the Bush administration to an anti-acid rain monitoring program. (more...)

An editorial expresses outrage that half the winter is passed, but there are still no temporary "Cell on Wheels" towers set up along the Northway. (more...)

Reporter Jonathan Brown talks with the Adirondack Explorer's Phil Brown about the Town of Westport vetoing a conservation land deal in the Split Rock area on Lake Champlain. Brown believes that the move could signal trouble with other land deals, notably the huge deal between Finch Pruyn paper company and the Adk. Nature Conservancy. To hear the audio, click here: LINK (more...)

Reporter Nathan Brown reports that atate Administrative Law Judge Daniel O'Connell will hold a conference to consider the opinions and comments that have been offered regarding the proposed Adirondack Club and Resort project. 'We think the continued wait for approval from the Adirondack Park Agency is very debilitating,' said Marti Mozdzier, executive director of the Tupper Lake Chamber of Commerce. (more...)

Reporter Kim Smith Dedam reports on what the next step is in the approval process of the proposed Adirondack Club and Resort. (more...)