Ogdensburg is in the spotlight after former students of the now-closed Academy at Ivy Ridge allege physical, sexual and mental abuse in "The Program."

North Country filmmaker Scott Carroll is about to visit Svalbard, a tiny Norweigian island that he says provides a window into the future of our world.

Donnelly is joining fellow North Country children's authors Maxwell Eaton III and Jessica Laurel Kane for a story hour with NCPR at the Massena Public Library this Saturday, as part of the library's National Library Week celebration.

The Red Cross will install smoke detectors with built-in ten-year batteries for free for anyone who calls.

In The Program, more than a dozen students, describe military-like conditions where they were punished for talking, looking at anyone, or looking out the window. Filmmaker and former Ivy Ridge student Katherine Kubler found mountains of abandoned files and some video at the abandoned site.

The militant group says it's examining the latest Israeli suggestions for a cease-fire in Gaza, seven months into the conflict that has claimed tens of thousands of lives.

The heat bore down on Palestinians living in tents and aid groups working in the sun. UNRWA reported several heat injuries among its staff, and at least one 18-year-old Palestinian died from the heat.

The state currently bans most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. That will drop to six weeks, with a few exceptions — a timetable that abortion rights advocates say is hard to meet

Members of the Washington, D.C., school Arab students club say their rights were violated "because the school does not want their viewpoint ... to be heard."

On the risky journey from the Global South to Europe, migrants often perish. In a town in Bosnia-Herzegovina, near a river where dozens have drowned, citizens seek to provide closure to the families.