Special Series by NCPR

Looking for the North Country

Imperfect Solutions: Rural Health Care in the North Country

For the love of books and community

NCPR's series on local libraries and what they mean

25 years later: remembering the 1998 Ice Storm

The '98 Ice Storm is a collective memory and experience for so many North Country residents. A quarter century later, we remember the trials, heartache, and community of the storm.

A Place to Call Home: the North Country's housing crisis and what people are doing about it

A special NCPR series about housing issues around the North Country.

The History and Legacy of the J&J Rogers Company

The North Country Worker Shortage

Stories about how North Country workers, employers, and residents are navigating our local worker shortage. This series was produced as part of the America Amplified initiative using community engagement to inform and strengthen local, regional...

What you need to know to vote on all those ballot propositions

Teacher and staff shortages sweep North Country schools

Watch: Up Close and Personal with the Yardbirds

Doyle Dean has been spending a lot of time at home collecting some intimate footage of common North Country birds in his back yard. Ornithologist Tom Langen of Clarkson University offers insight into their uncommon lives.

Child care during COVID-19: Struggles and solutions in the North Country

The North Country is a child care desert, and has been losing capacity since 2017. But child care is essential for families and for the workforce. COVID-19 has brought existing issues to light.

Senior Year Interrupted: Glens Falls, Watertown, Canton, Lake Placid, Lowville grads reflect on pandemic graduation

The coronavirus pandemic forced schools to shutter their doors, cancel events, and alter graduation plans. NCPR spoke with seven graduating seniors from around the region about their altered senior spring, what they've loved and what they'll...

40th Anniversary of the 1980 Lake Placid Olympics

This month NCPR has been commemorating the 40th anniversary of the 1980 Winter Olympic Games in Lake Placid with behind the scenes looks and contemporary remembrances of the times that made the North Country a world-class winter sports destination.

Boom and bust of the paper hamlet Pyrites

North Country at Work: a century of moving the milk

A look at over a century of transporting milk across the Saint Lawrence Valley, from fifty-gallon milk barrels drawn by horse to the advent of the milk truck driver.

Special Report: Trudeau, Big Oil, climate change and aboriginal rights

Brian Mann journeys to Canada's tar sands oil fields to dig into the contradictory nature of a country trying to lead on green energy and avert the worst effects of climate change while at the same time pursuing the destructive extraction of some...

North Country at Work: Ironworkers of Akwesasne

Ironworking is often death-defying work. Many Mohawk residents of the North Country spent their careers perched on iron beams high in the sky, bolting, cutting and connecting massive iron beams for high rises, bridges and buildings across the...

1816: "The Year Without a Summer"

Among the Thousand: Every island has a story

Tunnel Vision: Did police cast a wide enough net for Garrett Phillips' killer?

One of the most anticipated murder trials in North Country history is finally set to start next month. Oral "Nick" Hillary is accused of strangling 12 year-old Garrett Phillips in Potsdam on October 24, 2011, almost five years ago. Our...

Race and policing in the North Country

We've all seen the horrific images. Police officers have been gunned down in Baton Rouge and Dallas. Black men have died during routine traffic stops, their deaths caught on cell phone video. With racial tensions simmering, people are angry and...

Remembering the Slick of '76

This summer marks the 40th anniversary of the Slick of '76, a 300,000 gallon oil spill in the heart of the Thousand Islands. Thick, gooey crude coated the shoreline from Alexandria Bay to Massena.

Watertown budget battle turns ugly

The Watertown Mayor and City Council are planning to make major cuts this year and the Fire Department is taking the biggest hit. But, the Firefighter's Union is fighting back.

Five Lives: Students at St. Lawrence University

Five students in Canton, NY tell stories of different lives on campus.

NY's Big Raise: what is changing with the minimum wage

NCPR is asking stakeholders about the impact of a $15 minimum wage in New York. About 10% of workers in the North Country make the minimum wage.

All You Know is the Room in Here: a close look at solitary confinement

An in-depth examination of the use and consequences of long-term solitary confinement is prisons across the nation and the North Country by Brian Mann and Hatasha Haverty.

Coming to the North Country: Pierre, Cameroon

A special multi-media presentation: Pierre came to Canton from Cameroon to get an education that would help him give back to his homeland. That was just the beginning.