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A massive hydropower project in northern Quebec will divert the Rupert River to generate electricity for Canada and the United States. In the process, it will also flood an area long sacred to Cree Indians.

It's the biggest settlement yet in the nation's opioid crisis: the company that marketed Suboxone Film, an opioid treatment drug, will pay $1.4 billion to settle claims of fraudulent marketing.

Purdue Pharma, the maker of opioid OxyContin, has reached a $270 million civil settlement with the state of Oklahoma.

People in and around the Carolinas are hurting in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence. The storm left more than 30 people dead and hundreds of thousands of people without electricity and shelter.

Anger over the Parkland, Fla., school shooting has shifted to the failure of the FBI and mental health authorities to take action against the accused shooter.

North Country Public Radio's Brian Mann trekked over sun-swept snow and crackling ice to the summit of Noonmark Mountain in New York's Adirondack Park.

The search in northern New York and Vermont for two convicted murderers who escaped from a maximum security prison is taking place in some of the most rugged terrain in the country.

State and federal officials say they found DNA evidence that ties two missing prison inmates to a remote area of northern New York about 30 miles west of Dannemora, N.Y.

The killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi has fueled growing international outrage. But how the case is resonating in the media and with voters in the U.S. just two weeks ahead of midterms?

Volunteers have transformed two county fair pavilions the size of baseball diamonds into a livestock yard and animal shelter. There are horses, geese, cats, pigs — and a lot of Chihuahuas.

More than a thousand inmates will be released from solitary confinement under a deal made public in New York. State officials have agreed to reform the way prisoners are sent to isolation cells.

Robert Bowers, 46, has been charged in the shooting deaths of 11 worshippers at a synagogue in Pittsburgh. Bowers railed against Jews on social media and as he was being apprehended by police.

The National Transportation Safety Board and other agencies are looking at the qualifications of the driver, the vehicle's condition and the layout of the intersection. Twenty people were killed.

President Trump's use of vulgar language to describe countries in Africa and Central America has sparked fierce reaction. Some in the media have applauded him; others say the comments were racist.

In the Canadian province of Quebec, a plan to hike university tuition has led to weeks of violent rallies and clashes with police. The province faces a deficit of roughly $3.5 billion, and students say the tuition hike is part of a larger austerity campaign.

In New York's 23rd congressional district race, the Tea Party candidate, Doug Hoffman, has dropped out. But he's still on the ballot, and a Saturday poll shows him drawing 15 percent of the vote. That support accounts for nearly all the lead for incumbent Democrat Bill Owens over Republican Matt Doheny, so there's a very real possibility that the political ghost of a Tea Party candidate could play the spoiler role. North Country Public Radio's Brian Mann reports.

The religious community of Islamberg, New York, has been the target of conservative media attacks, conspiracy theories and actual plots for years. Now the families who live there are speaking out.

Mitchell is accused of supplying the inmates with saw blades and other contraband that helped them escape. With the costly manhunt still underway, new details are emerging about how the plot unfolded.

The loss of tax revenue from Wall Street is triggering a wave of government cuts in New York state. In Malone, N.Y., those government jobs and services fuel the local economy.

The winter storm gripping the eastern U.S. has forced millions of people to scramble for heat and shelter. People who work outside for a living often have no choice but to endure these conditions.