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The U.S. sled team is trying to return from a series of setbacks: The bobsled and skeleton team has had to deal with injuries, doping allegations, sexual harassment troubles, and a loss of sponsorship due to the recession. Still, athletes hope to turn in a good showing in Vancouver next month.

Scientists are searching the forests of the Northeastern U.S. for bat colonies hit by a disease called white nose syndrome, but they are finding whole forests completely depopulated. Researchers now say the deadly outbreak is expected to reach as far away as Florida and the Midwest.

Fort Ticonderoga, in upstate New York, saw bloody action in the French and Indian Wars and the Revolutionary Wars But now the privately owned museum and battleground is fighting for its own existence. The fort could be forced to shut down or sell off key artifacts.

The secretive and bloody industry is booming around the country, enjoying underground popularity despite being banned in all 50 states.

Andrew Goodman, one of the three civil rights activists slain in Mississippi, spent summers with his family in New York's Adirondack Mountains. People in the village of Tupper Lake, N.Y., say Goodman should be remembered as a hero.

The massive clean-up from Tropical Storm Irene continues in upstate New York, but some cash-strapped rural communities say they're not sure how much they can afford to rebuild.

It's fall and that means most forests in the U.S. have begun to change in magnificent ways. North Country Public Radio's Brian Mann went for a leaf-peeping hike this week in upstate New York and sent this audio postcard.

The drop in inmate populations in New York comes as terrible news in the state's northern counties, where prisons are a big part of the economy. Empty jail beds have led the governor to propose closing four prisons. Some residents are fighting to keep them open.

Ski enthusiasts in the Northeast start searching for that first taste of real winter. Cross-country skiers in New York's Adirondack Mountains found just enough snow on the old toll road trail on Whiteface Mountain.

Think you've had a chilly week? While much of the nation has dealt with a real taste of winter, residents of Saranac Lake, N.Y., have been in the deep freeze. Below-zero temperatures are the norm there in winter. But the 33 below zero morning this week had even longtime residents donning their extra-thick long johns.

Brian Mann of North Country Public Radio in upstate New York reports on one group that has been especially hard-hit by rising oil prices: rural working people who have to commute long distances to their jobs.

Phosphorous run-off from industrial farms is seeping into wilderness areas such as the Missisquoi National Wildlife Refuge in Vermont. Some lawmakers say manure should be regulated like other forms of pollution, but farmers say voluntary programs are more effective. Brian Mann of North Country Public Radio reports.

New York's Republican Party faces a tough election year, burdened by the GOP's national woes and out-organized by a resurgent state Democratic Party. North Country Public Radio's Brian Mann reports.

Weeks of torrential rains glutted Lake Champlain, flooding hundreds of miles of coastline. Now, in the mountain village of Keene Valley, N.Y., all that water has triggered a massive landslide that is slowly destroying a neighborhood.

The search continues for two convicted murderers who escaped from a maximum-security facility in upstate New York on Saturday.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is considering massive layoffs that could hit as many as 10,000 state workers — especially at state prisons. He says they're expensive and it's morally wrong to keep them open. But residents, who say prisons are their only source of jobs, are worried about their economies.

BP says the effort to clean up the Deepwater Horizon oil spill will be "largely complete" by the end of this year. But with the ruptured well still gushing crude, federal officials, scientists and many Louisiana residents say they'll be mopping up oil for years.

For the first time since World War II, there's a chance that horse racing will be canceled this year in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. The state's thoroughbred industry is mired in debt and tangled in a fierce political battle in Albany. Without a $17 million dollar bridge loan from the state, the season could be called off, devastating the region's economy.

People who get more deep sleep appear less likely to develop Alzheimer's. That may be because this phase of sleep allows the brain to clear out waste products.

Republicans have been looking for opportunities to make surprise gains in this November's Senate races. Some polls have shown that even in New York, they might have an outside chance at upsetting freshman Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand.