2+ week, 5+ hour ago   (857+ words) On the night of July 13, 2025, severe thunderstorms ripped across the western Adirondacks with enough rain to unleash more than a dozen new slides in the High Peaks. At least five occurred on Mount Colden. Within a week, one would bear…...

5+ mon, 11+ hour ago   (944+ words) With a light snow gently falling on a morning so beautiful it would make a postcard blush, a passel of dedicated outdoors people cut the ribbon on a new portal to the eastern end of the venerable Jackrabbit Trail Sunday,…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago   (219+ words) Keep up with the stories that matter. Google recently introduced a feature allowing you to customize your search results to prioritize content from sources you trust. ADD THE EXPLORER AS A PREFERRED SOURCE Using the Street View feature in Google…...

8+ mon, 6+ day ago   (191+ words) As a nonprofit news organization, Adirondack Explorer relies on readers like you. All donations are matched dollar-for-dollar through Dec. 31, up to $100,000. Double your impact on independent journalism today. The Adirondacks are full of people doing extraordinary work without recognition. We…...

8+ mon, 1+ week ago   (980+ words) A three-year study of the tailings pile at an abandoned Moriah iron mine shows that the site has significant amounts of the rare earth elements needed to produce advanced electronics and national weapons systems, a Boston company told Essex County…...

9+ mon, 3+ week ago   (255+ words) The state Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation may be getting a trade from the Open Space Institute (OSI) to lead its ranks. Gov. Kathy Hochul announced on Wednesday her appointment of Kathy Moser, chief conservation and policy officer…...