North country doctors form Medicare cost-savings group
...providers who seek to create a higher quality of care at less cost to Medicare, said Joel S. Duhl, executive director of the North Country Physicians Organization. An ACO is where a group of doctors and specialists and health care professionals come together...info
North Country benefits from state's additional flood assistance
...four North Country counties and many individual towns will receive extra funds to help pay for damages sustained during tropical storms Irene and Lee. Matt Hunter reports. To view our videos, you need to enable JavaScript. Learn how. install Adobe Flash 9...info
NORTH KOREA: Asian countries on alert for North Korea rocket launch
...to launch its 30-metre (100-foot) rocket came and went Thursday with no sign of liftoff from a newly built space centre on the country's northwestern Yellow Sea coast. But the North says the Unha-3 (Galaxy-3) rocket, ostensibly carrying a satellite payload,...info
North Korea Sanctions Expanded by United Nations
...to adopt a much stronger resolution mandating more sanctions. The North's Foreign Ministry two days later announced that the country was enriching uranium -- an activity that would give the country a new way of making atomic bombs in addition to its old plutonium-based...info
North Korea fires rocket, but it falls apart
...only carry a civilian satellite, touting it as a major technological achievement to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of the country's founder, Kim Il Sung, on Sunday. Still, the rocket failure is a major embarrassment for Pyongyang, which has invited...info
Remembering North Country artist, illustrator Sid Couchey
...One of the North Country's most influential artists passed away last month. Sid Couchey was a cartoonist and illustrator who lived in Essex in the Champlain Valley. He drew for decades for Harvey Comics, helping to bring life to iconic characters like Richie...info
Remembering North Country artist, illustrator Sid Couchey
...Brian Mann) Sid Couchey (in the boat) plays chauffeur to Richie Rich (Drawing: Sid Couchey) (04/16/12) One of the North Country's most influential and beloved artists passed away last month. Sid Couchey was a cartoonist and illustrator who lived in Essex in...info
U.N.Condemns North Korea Rocket Launch; Kim Jong-un Praises Military
...allow North Koreans to "fully enjoy the glory and wealth of socialism," the country remains heavily impoverished. Analysts and North Korea observers believe that the country increasingly relies on its far more prosperous neighbor China for food and economic...info
S Korea hunts for debris from failed North launch
...and stepped up sanctions after its second in 2009. President Barack Obama said North Korea's failed rocket launch shows the country is wasting money on rockets that "don't work" while its people starve. Obama told Spanish-language TV network "Telemundo" that...info
North Korea’s launch and Japan’s response explained
...The Christian Science Monitor reports that the Democrat Senator, Jim Webb, has condemned North Korea for the launch despite the country’s economic woes. “It involves a missile, whichever way you look at it,†Webb said. “We were testing the intentions of the...info