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Officials at Fort Ticonderoga say they've received significant federal government funding as part of the $70 million in improvements underway at the upstate New York historic site and tourist attraction.

The U.S. Coast Guard says Burlington, Vermont-based crewmembers have rescued a woman whose boat capsized on New York's side of Lake Champlain.

A man fishing for channel catfish on Lake Champlain has hooked a New York record for longnose gar, a needle-nosed fish considered a living dinosaur.

Vermont's moose biologist says brain-worm parasites and not onlookers probably caused the death of a moose that had drowned in Lake Champlain after swimming across about a 6-mile stretch of the lake from New York to South Hero.

A moose drowned in Lake Champlain after people crowded around the animal to take its picture, Vermont wildlife officials said.

A bicycle ferry that carries cyclists across part of Lake Champlain reopened Friday after repairs were made to an old railroad causeway on the water that is a popular bicycle path.

Fort Ticonderoga is displaying artifacts that tell the story of the historic site's links to the city of Philadelphia during the American Revolution.

A program that helps fund scientific studies of Lake Champlain has a new designation that more than doubles its budget for research about the lake.

The Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife is planning a series of clinics to help people learn about ice fishing.

The Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation is inviting people to a series of public meetings where they can weigh in on water quality improvement projects designed to help clean up Lake Champlain.