CANTON -- North Country Public Radio has been honored with several regional Edward R. Murrow Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) awards .

NCPR was recognized in the New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania region of small market radio stations eligible for the awards. Regional winners are nominated for the National Murrow awards.

“This recognition is among the highest in journalism,” said NCPR General Manager, Ellen Rocco.

NCPR won awards for:

• Best Newscast; NCPR Story of the Day Breaking News Coverage of the Terrorist Shooting in Ottawa. On October 22, 2014, a Canadian soldier was killed on Parliament Hill in Ottawa and was recognized as a terrorist attack. The story was breaking news, covered by NCPR reporters David Sommerstein and Sarah Harris.

• Feature Reporting & News Series; Sixteen and Homeless. NCPR’s Sarah Harris reported in a three part series on the overlooked issue of rural homelessness and how it directly affects individuals.

• Reporting: Hard News; What if 10 percent of your neighbors went to prison downstate? Natasha Haverty’s in depth look into the look into the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn and how the Rockefeller Drug Laws have placed a disproportionate number of their residents into New York prisons, many of which are located throughout the North Country.

• Reporting: Sports; Last of the “Borscht Belt” leaves a sports legacy. NCPR assistant news director David Sommerstein runs a profile on the hotels of the Catskill Mountains in the 1950’s and 1960’s and their role in the American sports landscape.

“We are very pleased that two of our youngest reporters, Sarah Harris and Natasha Haverty, have received this honor, along with our seasoned and nationally-respected assistant news director, David Sommerstein. Over the past 15 years, NCPR has received Murrow honors on an almost annual basis, along with regular recognitions from the Associated Press and the Society for Professional Journalists. Work of this caliber is made possible through the generosity of the people, businesses and organizations across the region who support the station,” Rocco said.