The Fulton County Planning Department is proposing a $1.1 million capital project for 2014 to complete the Rail Trail project begun in the 1990s. 

Reporter Jon Alexander reports that the interconnected nature of regional watersheds makes the spread of invasive species not only a regional issue but an international one, noting that localized attempts to control or limit the introduction of invasive species may potentially slow the spread, but will ultimately fail without a more global policy. 

Reporter Kenneth Lovett reports that Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Michael Bloomberg will face off on July 22 in a whitewater rafting race on Indian Lake in upstate Hamilton County as part of the governor’s push to boost tourism in the Adirondack Mountains.