LAKE PLACID — Lake Placid's part-time emergency room will close on Aug. 20. The final closure date was announced on Monday evening by Adirondack Health, which operates the emergency room at the Lake Placid Health and Medical Fitness Center as well as facilities in Saranac Lake, Tupper ...

SARANAC LAKE — The air quality in the Tri-Lakes region is expected to be unhealthy for sensitive groups on Tuesday, July 18. An Air Quality Index value of 135 is predicted for Saranac Lake and surrounding areas Tuesday, according to the Environmental Protection Agency’s AirNow.gov Air ...

The state departments of Health and Environmental Conservation issued a statewide air quality advisory on Sunday. The advisory will be in effect from midnight to 11:59 p.m. on Monday. The air quality in the Tri-Lakes region is expected to reach “unhealthy” levels on Monday, with a ...

LAKE PLACID — Hudson Headwaters Health Network wants to open a new primary care office in the village of Lake Placid. Pam Fisher, the director of community relations for Hudson Headwaters — or HHHN — told the News in an email Thursday, July 6 that the Queensbury-based health network ...

LAKE PLACID — Adirondack Health’s dental facility on Barn Road in Lake Placid has closed “indefinitely,” according to Adirondack Health Director of Communications Matt Scollin. Scollin said the dental facility had to close recently after staff resignations and “key staff ...

KEENE — Champlain Area Trails will benefit from an art exhibit at Keene Arts throughout July. Four Adirondack artists — Kevin Raines, Rob Powell, Dan Keegan and Steve Van Nort — have teamed up with the Keene Arts owners Mal and Zizi MacDougall to create a benefit exhibition to ...