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Craft beer boom spurs demand for close-to-home barley malt
GERMANTOWN, N.Y. (AP) — Dennis Nesel converts barley to malt the way it was done hundreds of years ago, spreading the water-soaked grain on his malt house floor and turning it with a shovel as it...
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Activists demand action against industrial chemical in water
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Prized for its ability to make things super-slick, it was used for decades in the manufacture of Teflon pans, Gore-Tex jackets, ski wax, carpets and the linings of pizza boxes and...
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Solar farm developers target New York with lease offers
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Less than a year after New York banned fracking, dashing the hopes of farmers who had hoped to reap royalties from natural gas leases, the commercial solar industry is courting...
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New York denies critical permit for natural gas pipeline
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York environmental regulators have rejected a critical permit needed for a major natural gas pipeline project, saying the project fails to meet standards that protect hundreds...
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Forest ranger documents Adirondack plane crash sites
ELIZABETHTOWN, N.Y. (AP) — Hidden among the rugged mountains, spruce thickets and mossy bogs of New York’s 6-million-acre Adirondack Park lie the remnants of dozens of planes that have met their doom...
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Pipeline developers vow to fight New York permit rejection
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Developers of a 124-mile pipeline designed to transport natural gas to the Northeast from Pennsylvania’s shale fields said Monday they’ll challenge New York’s rejection of a...
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Imported forest pests cause $2 billion in damage annually
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — When Gary Lovett was studying the effect of acid rain in New York’s Catskill Mountains 20 years ago, he ended the experiment early because so many trees in the test plots were dying...
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Herring spawn in NY tributary for 1st time in 85 years
TROY, N.Y. (AP) — A few days after a long-abandoned industrial dam was removed from the mouth of a Hudson River tributary this spring, hundreds of river herring swarmed up into the shallow waters to...
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Ex-members of church where teens were beaten talk of decline
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Former members of the upstate New York church where two teens were viciously beaten paint a picture of a once vibrant and joyous house of worship that declined into a place of fear...
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Hike vs ride: Debate heats up over next Adirondack land buy
NORTH HUDSON, N.Y. (AP) — As New York state prepares to purchase a trio of connected gem-like ponds reflecting the highest peaks of the Adirondack Mountains, environmental groups are pressing for the...
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Christmas cards pour in for 8-year-old disfigured by fire
ROTTERDAM, N.Y. (AP) — A little girl who lost her family and suffered disfiguring burns in an arson fire is having an incredible Christmas, thanks to the generosity of thousands of strangers around the...
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EPA will speed up review of GE’s Hudson River cleanup
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has agreed to speed up its study of whether General Electric’s massive $2 billion six-year dredging project on the Hudson River was...
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Young fire survivor to share Christmas cheer in shelters
ROTTERDAM, N.Y. (AP) — An 8-year-old girl who lost her father and younger siblings in an arson fire that left her severely scarred is sharing the good cheer that has been bestowed on her, by the...
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Chinese medicinal herbs provide niche market for US farmers
DELMAR, N.Y. (AP) — Expanding interest in traditional Chinese medicine in the United States is fostering a potentially lucrative new niche market for farmers who plant the varieties of herbs, flowers...
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Woman beats DUI rap with claim her body brews alcohol
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Drunken-driving charges against an upstate New York woman have been dismissed based on an unusual defense: Her body is a brewery. The woman was arrested while driving with a...
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Endangered shorebird nests in NY; 1st time in over 30 years
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A pair of piping plovers successfully nested on New York’s Lake Ontario shoreline for the first time in more than 30 years, which bodes well for the recovery of the endangered...
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Factory village’s trail of cancer leads to tap water probe
HOOSICK FALLS, N.Y. (AP) — After his factory worker father died a painful death from kidney cancer at age 68 in 2013, Michael Hickey made it his mission to find out why so many people in his hometown...
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Army site’s new owner plans to preserve rare white deer herd
ROMULUS, N.Y. (AP) — A rare herd of ghostly white deer that multiplied at a World War II weapons depot under the protection of the U.S. Army is now being nurtured by the site’s new owner. Seneca Iron...
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Millions of orchids grow on former mine site in upstate NY
STAR LAKE, N.Y. (AP) — Millions of orchids are now growing in a hundred-acre wetland in the Adirondack Park that developed on waste from a vast open-pit iron mine, a transformation scientists say is...
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Cornell University welcomes 12-year-old college freshman
ITHACA, N.Y. (AP) — When he was 2, Jeremy Shuler was reading books in English and Korean. At 6, he was studying calculus. Now, at an age when most kids are attending middle school, the exuberant...
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