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Assemblyman Richard Brodsky is one of five Democrats running for attorney general. He's asking the Justice Department to observe voting and for city election officials to add staff to help voters deal with the small print. More>>
Two teens are arrested, accused of causing thousands of dollars of damages to one of their homes. More>>
The trial of a former United Nations weapons inspector in an online child-sex sting in Pennsylvania has been delayed. More>>
A marine killed in Afghanistan has ties to the Capital Region. More>>
PepsiCo is expanding its popular Refresh Project, a charity program that has generated tens of millions of votes and countless Tweets, news stories and Facebook posts. More>>
A review by the insurance industry suggests car booster seats are getting better at ensuring a proper fit for children in the back seat. More>>
A fight between two people during a Labor Day picnic puts one of the people in the hospital after getting shot. More>>
Two New York Indian nations will return to federal court in their challenge of the state's plans to begin taxing reservation cigarette sales to non-Indian customers. More>>
The recent tax hike on cigarettes has many people looking for alternatives and the e cigarette is being marketed as the answer. E-cigarettes are battery-powered tubes that turn nicotine-laced liquid into a vapor mist. They're sold at many smoke shops across our area and have been growing in popularity. More>>
As New York Indian Nation leaders battle in court against state attempts to tax reservation cigarette sales, they're urging calm on reservations, where members count on tax-free sales for jobs and revenue. More>>
The four gubernatorial candidates in Massachusetts are set to face off in the first of several TV debates before the general election in November. More>>
A homeless man with more than 80 previous arrests has been apprehened by police in Amsterdam, accused of criminal impersonation. More>>
Police have arrested and charged a 28-year-old woman with the stabbing of a 14-year old boy during a fight early Saturday morning. Authorities said Letesha Henry is facing attempted murder charges. The teen suffered internal injuries and is in critical condition at Albany Medical Center Hopsital. More>>
A 20-year-old man in Vermont could soon be lighter in his wallet for allegedly sending a text message over his cell phone while riding his motorcycle. More>>
Apple-picking season is getting going a little earlier than usual. More>>
The Albany County Stop DWI Program has released the results of its Labor Day weekend drunk driving sweep. More>>
A man knocked on the front and rear window of an apartment in the 80 block of Lark Street Saturday morning then after exposing himself to the victim began to pleasure himself before running from the scene, according to Albany Police. More>>
A call reporting a man with a gunshot wound to his stomach came in at around 4:45 p.m. Saturday in the Town of Charleston, according to Montgomery County Sheriff Michael Amato. More>>
Vermont State Police are trying to determine the identity of skeletal remains found behind Kathy Drive in Rutland. Authorities said someone reported spotting the human body around noon Saturday. More>>
A nationwide egg recall last month has led to a surge in business for some local farmers. A salmonella outbreak caused that recall of millions of eggs and its prompted many people think more about where their food comes from. More>>
After 24 hours of debate, their union reached a new labor agreement Thursday night at the North Adams Regional Hospital. More>>
Senator Doug Racine lost to Senate President Pro Tem Peter Shumlin by 197 votes. More>>
The state is one of 25 receiving new federal grant funds to design a national school testing system. More>>
Fire Investigators in Rensselaer County are trying to find out what caused a destructive fire that gutted a home in West Sand Lake. More>>
A new poll finds New Yorkers are conflicted about the construction of a mosque near the World Trade Center site. More>>
A thumbnail-sized clam blamed for clouding the azure bays of Lake Tahoe high in the Sierra Nevada has now turned up in a mountain-ringed Adirondack lake renowned for its clear, spring-fed waters. More>>
A Waterford man, employed as a corrections officer for Albany County is arrested after beating a 5-year-old child. More>>
New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli says, "The average contribution rate for the Employee Retirement System will increase from 11.9 percent of salaries to 16.3 percent." More>>
Kia Motors is recalling about 35,000 Soul and Sorento vehicles to fix wiring in the interior lighting panels that could lead to fires. More>>
Search teams returned to Washington County Thursday in hopes of solving the case of a 12 year old boy who went missing nearly 3 years ago. More>>
Rick Lazio is maintaining a lead over Carl Paladino in the race for the Republican nomination for governor in New York, but it could be shaky. More>>
New York City Off-Track Betting Corp. CEO Greg Rayburn says failure to negotiate a deal with the agency's unions to take advantage of a state early retirement incentive
means OTB has to turn to another way to remain solvent. More>>
Four of the Democratic primary candidates for attorney general squared off in Albany on Wednesday, debating everything from the controversial Islamic cultural center and mosque planned for near Ground Zero, to the new law authorizing civil confinement for sexual predators. More>>
Fire Investigators believe a lit cigarette may have caused a deadly fire in Troy Wednesday morning. More>>
Maine's Sugarloaf ski area says a planned expansion will make it the largest ski resort east of the Rocky Mountains. More>>
Keanu Reeves will receive an acting award and make an appearance with Vera Farmiga at the annual Woodstock Film Festival. More>>
A new poll says Democrat Andrew Cuomo is still the runaway favorite to become New York's next governor, but that doesn't mean voters are pleased with him or his campaign. More>>
The latest in a tangled series of state and federal court decisions has halted New York state's plan to collect taxes on cigarettes sold by Native American retailers to non-Indian customers. More>>
Jury selection continued Tuesday in the trial of an Albany man accused of strangling his girlfriend to death in her home a year and a half ago. Daiman Burkett, 31, faces a charge of second-degree murder for the death of Des-Hawn Parker, who was discovered in her apartment at 747 Seventh Ave. on the morning of Feb. 26, 2009. More>>
U.S. Education Secretary, Arne Duncan, came to Albany Monday to talk about the $700 million dollars in "Race to the Top" money New York's public schools will be receiving. Its part of Duncan's nationwide bus tour called "Courage in the Classroom." He's touring each of the nine states and the District of Columbia that won the second phase of the competition. More>>
BRUNSWICK – After nine days on the run, the man accused of injuring a state trooper has been caught. Abel Jiminez, 30, of Easton, was arrested by State Police in Brunswick Sunday morning after a search More>>
The homeowners displaced in Friday's gas leak in the Town of Gilboa had the chance to voice their concerns at a public meeting. The forum was held Saturday night at the Middleburgh Fire House. More>>
For the third year in a row, Schenectady High has made the State Education Department's list of persistently dangerous schools. More>>
Police say they've arrested three Albany-area men who were growing 300 marijuana plants in a suburban warehouse. More>>
A federal judge in Buffalo is considering the Seneca Indian Nation's request for a restraining order that would temporarily block New York state from enforcing new tax laws
on the tribe's cigarette sales. More>>
A lawyer says New York Gov. David Paterson didn't lie in testifying about his intention to pay for World Series tickets last year and notes special investigators don't recommend criminal charges. More>>
WTEN fans from around the region, helped Steve Ammerman go 'Over the Edge' in Albany. More>>
The move of Beech-Nut baby food to a new plant could cost village taxpayers dearly in its old home town. More>>
State police are investigating whether a migrant farm worker accused of injuring a trooper has had help evading a police search in Washington County. More>>
The New York State Fair is open for business. The gates to the fairgrounds just outside Syracuse opened Thursday morning for the 164th State Fair. More>>
Governor David Paterson is promising to begin collecting state taxes next week on cigarettes sold by American Indian retail businesses to most smokers in New York. More>>
Democrat Andrew Cuomo's latest ad in the race for governor will air Wednesday and focus on his fight against fraud in the public worker pensions system. More>>
A Little Warm has been made the 7-2 morning-line favorite over Kentucky Derby winner Super Saver for Saturday's $1 million Travers Stakes at Saratoga Race Course. More>>
The Oneida Indian Nation is relocating a cigarette factory to its reservation in central New York as part of an effort to keep the state from collecting taxes on cigarettes sold by Indian tribes. More>>
AAA says more Americans will take trips over the Labor Day weekend than a year ago. More>>
Cohoes man sentenced to 30 days in jail for punching a police horse after being ejected from a downtown Saratoga bar. More>>
Republican Rick Lazio is beginning a statewide television ad campaign against Democrat Andrew Cuomo. More>>
Peter Shumlin, the president pro tem of the Vermont Senate, is claiming victory in the five-way contest for the Democratic gubernatorial primary. More>>
Powerful New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver is joining Gov. David Paterson in an effort to persuade Islamic leaders to move a proposed mosque farther from ground zero. More>>
Amtrak says low-voltage problems caused train service to be stopped between New York City and Washington and between Philadelphia and Harrisburg, Pa. More>>
OSWEGO, NY -- A 100-mile stretch of the eastern half of the Erie Canal and the Oswego Canal north of Syracuse are closed because of high water levels.New York state Canal Corp. Director Carmella Mantello More>>
New York has won up to $696 million in federal education funding after it made changes in its application despite initial opposition from powerful teachers' unions More>>
New statistics by the Greater Capital Association of Realtors or GCAR show that pending home sales for single family homes fell by nearly 40% across the area for July. GCAR attributes the drop to the loss of the federal home buyer tax rebate, which expired in July. More>>
Sales of previously occupied homes fell to the lowest level in 15 years last month as the economy weakened. The National Association of Realtors says July's sales fell by more than 27 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 3.83 million. It was the largest monthly drop on records dating back to 1968. June's sales pace was revised downward to 5.26 million. More>>
Three days after a shooting outside a Troy bar, News 10 has learned that the tenants who above it have been evicted. The four people who live at 235 4th Street said the door was bolted closed Friday and they haven't been able to return. More>>
New York Republicans vying to take on Democratic U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer are scheduled to face off in a televised debate. More>>
Authorities say they're still searching for a 30-year-old man accused of driving a pickup truck into a state trooper after a domestic dispute in eastern New York. More>>
A 2-month-old girl has died after she, her mother and her brother were hit by a car. More>>
Authorities say residents of a Mohawk River village are returning to neighborhoods flooded by 3 to 5 inches of rain that fell across some areas of upstate New York. More>>
The third and final phase of the credit card reform law goes into effect Sunday to help protect consumers. It includes new protections against high penalty and late fees. Consumers will also get the chance to roll skyrocketing credit card interest rates back to previous levels as long as a card user has paid bills on time for six months. More>>
State police are joining with local department and various law enforcement agencies to crackdown on drinking and driving. Beginning Friday, more officers are on patrol, on the lookout for individuals who have consumed alcohol and still chose to get behind the wheel. More>>
Authorities closed a beach on Lake George after discovering a petroleum spill. More>>
Police are trying to find the person suspected of shooting a man outside a closed down bar Friday Morning. More>>
Staff Sergeant Derek Farley, a resident of Nassau in Rensselaer County, has become the third local soldier in the last 2 months to be killed while serving in the war in Afghanistan. More>>
As their convoy reached the barbed wire at the border crossing out of Iraq on Wednesday, the soldiers whooped and cheered. Then they scrambled out of their stifling hot armored vehicles, unfurled an American flag and posed for group photos. More>>
Jockey Rajiv Maragh has been discharged from the hospital after being thrown from his mount, Pico Dinero, on the stretch turn of the seventh race at Saratoga Race Course on Wednesday. More>>
Gov. David Paterson snubs the State Public Integrity Commission's hearing on Tuesday into claims that the governor violated the Public Officers Law by seeking and receiving free tickets to Game One of last year's World Series between the Yankees and the Phillies. More>>
State Police investigators are looking into what caused a head on crash involving a Schenectady County Sheriff's Deputy's squad car and a motorcycle. More>>
New York Governor David Paterson expects to meet in the near future with developers of a proposed Islamic cultural center that would include a mosque near ground zero. More>>
A new state law will allow anyone convicted of prostitution in New York to clear their records when they can show they were forced into sex trafficking. More>>
A Boston city councilor wants an investigation of the jail where the alleged Craisglist Killer was awaiting trial. More>>
The Adirondack Save-A-Stray is asking for the public's help to track down the owner of a dog left in its driveway. The young, female dog was malnourished, neglected and had trouble breathing. More>>
Gov. David Paterson has signed a bill that makes New York the 50th state to enact some version of no-fault divorce. More>>
The final Leandra's Law Provision takes effect Sunday, August 15th, according to a release from The New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services Spokeswoman Janine Kava. More>>
Firefighters battled a blaze at the T A Predel and Co. on Edison Avenue Sunday evening. Firefighters said they responded to the recycling plant around 5pm, battling the flames as smoke billowed out. People reported smelling the smoke miles away. More>>
The Latham Fire Department marked its 100th anniversary with a celebration Saturday. The festivities include a parade that steps off at 1pm followed by a party at their Watervliet-Shaker Road fire house. More>>
Homicide Chief Dennis Richards says officers responding to a shooting at a restaurant in the city's business district around 2:30 a.m. Saturday discovered three people dead. He says a fourth died at a hospital. More>>
New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand has been endorsed for election by a leading gun control group, two years after earning a top rating from the National Rifle Association. More>>
A lesbian cadet has asked to resign from the U.S. Military Academy because she can no longer lie about her sexuality and was troubled by the anti-gay attitudes of some around her. More>>
A new law requires counting New York's 57,000 inmates at their old addresses, mostly in the New York City area, instead of upstate prisons when drawing new boundaries of legislative districts. More>>
New York's Legislature is expected to return to session within two weeks to act on $600 million in federal aid that is supposed to stave off thousands of teacher layoffs by the opening of school. More>>
Heavily favored In Te Domine overtook Raffie's Rose inside the sixteenth pole and won the $100,000 New York Stallion Stakes Statue of Liberty Division by three-quarters of a length Thursday at Saratoga Race Course. More>>
An aide to New York Gov. David Paterson has been arraigned on an assault charge stemming from a 2009 domestic violence case that touched off an evidence-tampering investigation. More>>
A federal judge in Buffalo won't suspend enforcement of a new federal law that makes it illegal for retailers to mail cigarettes. More>>
Embattled Congressman Charlie Rangel says he will talk less about the 13 ethics charges brought against him by fellow members of Congress and more about getting re-elected to a twentieth term. More>>
New York lawmakers will have to return to Albany soon to decide how to divvy up the $607 million in federal money aimed at saving or creating teaching jobs. More>>
A section of Route 9W was shutdown Wednesday morning after a dump truck filled with blacktop runs off the road and into a ditch. More>>
Authorities say an extensive search of an Adirondack property has turned up bones they believe are those of a woman slain by her husband 30 years ago. More>>
Buffalo police say a traffic stop led to animal cruelty charges after they found a live cat "marinating" in oil and peppers in the trunk of a car. More>>
An FAA official says the single-engine Cessna 172 left an airport in Orange and crashed about a mile away. More>>
New York State Police want drivers to know that it is not illegal to leave a trailer hitch ball mount on their vehicle when not towing anything. More>>
Despite polls showing him trailing Gillibrand by substantial margins, the 70-year-old Westchester County resident, says people underestimate his "great energy." More>>
Fire investigators are trying to find what started a Tuesday morning fire at a strip mall in Rotterdam. More>>
A Seneca Nation businessman who's challenging a federal law making it illegal to ship cigarettes through the mail called the seizure of thousands of cartons of his cigarettes from a delivery truck "clear retaliation" for his lawsuit. More>>
Crossroads Center for Children has a new home in Schenectady County. Families joined with local businesses and elected officials to cut the ribbon on the new state of the art facility. It's the only New York State approved Autism School in an eight county area. More>>
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - New York Gov. David Paterson is offering state help if the developers of a proposed mosque near ground zero agree to move the project farther from the site of the Sept. 11 attack. He More>>
An Albany family is turning its loss into a garden of hope for the community. More than four years after Allison Banks lost her son Elleck Williams Brace, a Memorial Garden was set up on the corner of Broad and Second Avenue. The space received an official sign Monday from the Albany Fire Department. More>>
Jury Selection is underway for the trial of a teen accused of trying to murder a man. More>>
The first human case of the West Nile Virus in New York City was confirmed Friday. More>>
Police and the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals are investigating the death of a goat that was found dead on the front lawn of a Rehoboth home
with a rope around its neck. More>>
Authorities in northern New York say they've found the body of a fisherman who apparently drowned after a boat sank in Lake Ontario. More>>
Employees at Berkshire Medical Center were informed of impending layoffs, which will take effect in September. Berkshire Health Systems (BHS), the parent company of Berkshire Medical Center, announced that 124 jobs or 3.7 percent of the workforce will be given pink slips. More>>
Vermont educators are being asked to trim over $23 million from their budget. More>>
Gov. Deval Patrick has signed a bill creating a weekend of shopping that's free of sales tax. More>>
Police are investigating the deaths of a man and woman found dead inside their Oneida County home. More>>
Jockeys soon will have to take random breathalyzer tests at Saratoga Race Course before the daily racing begins. More>>
A law enforcement official says Rudy Giuliani's daughter Caroline was arrested after she was seen on video pocketing makeup at a Manhattan cosmetics store. More>>
Leaders in the Democratic majority of New York state's Senate say they expect to finally pass a state budget that was due April 1. More>>
A state police major who heads Governor David Paterson's security detail is being transferred following an investigation that cleared the governor and troopers of criminal wrongdoing in a domestic case involving a Paterson aide, but criticized how it was handled. More>>
Just as state Democratic Senators appeared to have shored up their majority and would avoid being responsible for the latest budget in the state's history, a key Democrat threatens to skip out on Tuesday's special session. More>>
Two people aboard a single-engine plane are being treated for minor injuries after the aircraft crashed shortly after taking off from a small airport in central New York. More>>
The state Lottery Division has recommended a Malaysia-based company to build and operate video slot machines at New York City's Aqueduct racetrack. More>>
A Bethlehem homeowner who allegedly tackled a teen pulling a prank on his property, is set to appear in town court Tuesday evening. More>>
New York's Legislature is scheduled to return to session Tuesday, possibly to pass a budget that was due April 1. More>>
Police arrested two parents in Amsterdam after their five year old child was caught riding in traffic without adult supervision. More>>
The initial reports are in and it appears the "HIRE now" tax cut program is creating jobs locally and nationally. According to a new treasury report released Monday, 155 people were hired by Albany Medical Center, over 33,000 in New York and about 5.6 million nationwide. More>>
Chelsea Clinton wed her longtime boyfriend under extraordinary security at an elegant Hudson River estate late Saturday. Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton announced in a statement that their daughter wed investment banker Marc Mezvinsky. More>>
A Fultonville man is facing eight felony charges after entering a house on Union Street with a shotgun looking for his former girlfriend, according to the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office. Justin Cotter, 32, is charged with burglary, assault, reckless endangerment and menacing after he allegedly went into the house and pointed a shotgun at the homeowners, the Sheriff's Office said. More>>
Gov. David Paterson is rejecting the Legislature's latest compromise on his proposal to give New York's public universities greater autonomy and the authority to raise tuition without legislative approval. More>>
Former President Bill Clinton strolled up the main street in Rhinebeck, N.Y., shortly after noon Friday, the day before his daughter is to marry Marc Mezvinsky at the much-ballyhooed wedding at a private estate. More>>
Lt. Paul Doucette is set to become the new police chief in Bennington. More>>
New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo says his office has opened a "major fraud investigation" into the life insurance industry. More>>
New York Gov. David Paterson says he's planning for at least 1,000 layoffs to contend with a fiscal crisis after public worker unions refused to provide concessions. More>>
A deadly accident caused a tractor trailer to go up in flames, and shut down a section of 787 for hours. More>>
For the second time in two days, police in Greene County are investigating a deadly accident involving a high school student. More>>
A day after a special prosecutor cleared Gov. David Paterson of allegations that he tampered with a witness who had accused a top aide of domestic violence, he says he regrets dropping out of the race for a full term as New York governor. More>>
Thursday's special session produced little more than a bill for taxpayers; estimates range from $70,000 to $100,000 for each day the lawmakers return to the Capitol. After the meeting, Silver told NEWS10 a budget agreement will be reached "in just a few days." More>>
Plans for a high-speed passenger rail system linking Connecticut, western Massachusetts and Vermont will soon be detailed. More>>
A bus driving kids from the Southern Saratoga YMCA in Clifton Park ran off Route 28 in Otsego County Thursday, but no one was seriously hurt. More>>
Rising Republican candidate Carl Paladino says he won't stay in the New York governor's race if he doesn't win the Republican primary, saying the GOP can't afford to let Democrat Andrew Cuomo win. More>>
The New York Legislature's "extraordinary session" to finally pass the late state budget Wednesday night was anything but extraordinary, with nine senators not showing up and no agreements on which to vote. More>>
Governor David Paterson did not break the law but he did commit "serious" errors of judgment. That's according to a new, 54-page report issued by former Chief Judge Judith Kaye on the alleged domestic abuse case involving one of Paterson's top aides, David Johnson. More>>
A controversial project years in the making is now officially open in Saratoga Springs as the city held an open house at its new recreation center on Tuesday night. But not everyone is celebrating. More>>
Sen. John Kerry has told the Massachusetts Department of Revenue he will pay taxes to Massachusetts on his new $7 million yacht even though the vessel is based in tax-free Rhode Island. More>>
Hudson Valley Community College's Nursing Program has received a $100,000 gift from the Capital Communications Federal Credit Union. The money will be used to help the program expand. More>>
Train service on the Northeast Corridor line has been disrupted after a person was struck by a train near the Hamilton station, about five miles north of Trenton. More>>
Police are investigating a fatal ATV accident in Greene County. More>>
A Suffolk Superior Court judge has refused to block the state-ordered shutdown of the Robert M. Hughes Academy Charter School in Springfield, ending a six-month legal fight. More>>
The highest court in Massachusetts has ruled that property owners potentially can be held liable for snow-related injuries whether the accumulations are caused by Mother Nature or by plows. More>>
House Speaker Robert DeLeo says there's no guarantee that a bill allowing expanding gambling in Massachusetts will pass this year. More>>
New York Gov. David Paterson is poking back at New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie for his criticism of MTV's "Jersey Shore," the reality show about hard-partying 20-somethings at a shore house. More>>
Gov. Deval Patrick says he wants to see the Legislature pass four bills that will help create jobs during the last week of the state's legislative session. More>>
The State Ethics Commission has decided against fining Pittsfield Mayor James Ruberto and former Red Sox general manager Dan Duquette after Ruberto agreed to buy two 2004 World Series tickets from Duquette at a face value of $190 per ticket. More>>
With many families struggling to get by these days, a Glenville mother of four has stepped in to help. Rayn Boncie started the non-profit Things of My Very Own, Inc. out of her own home. Boncie works around the clock to provide basic necessities to local children through various agencies and other non-profits. More>>
A Lake George woman is arrested under Leandra's law accused of driving with a child passenger. More>>
A Montgomery County woman is been arrested, after allegedly driving drunk, causing a head on accident with two motorcycles. More>>
Police gathered in Albany's Tivoli Park Monday morning, to search for a missing woman who disappeared nearly three months ago. More>>
Gov. David Paterson is forcing the Legislature to reconsider some of his ideas that have already been rejected. Paterson on Sunday announced the agenda for the session he called for Wednesday to finally close the state budget that was due April 1. More>>
More than 20,000 people converged on the Spa City Saturday night for the annual "Hats Off to Saratoga" music festival, which celebrates the beginning of racing season. Nearly a dozen free musical acts were performed from 7 to 11 p.m. at sites along Broadway. More>>
Private First Class Matthew Came is a combat medic who was hit by a bullet after an IED explosion. More>>
Now that President Obama has signed the unemployment benefit extension, when will New Yorkers get their retroactive checks? More>>
It's summer and the area's blood supply is critically low. Right now, the there is a two day blood supply where it should be double that. However, gay men cannot help ease that shortage. More>>
All the reigning Horse of the Year has to do now is prove it Saturday with a big victory against six seemingly overmatched rivals in the $400,000 Lady's Secret Stakes at Monmouth Park. More>>
Gov. David Paterson is calling the Legislature back for a rare summer session to complete a state budget now 15 weeks late. More>>
An invasive beetle that has killed tens of millions of ash trees in the Midwest and Canada has been found in two more upstate New York counties. More>>
Democratic New York Rep. Charles Rangel says he looks forward to next week's meeting of the House Ethics Committee, where allegations against him will be aired publicly for the first time. More>>
Former New York City Mayor Ed Koch's long awaited list of politicians who support or oppose specific reforms of New York state government has identified most of the Democratic majorities of the Assembly and Senate as "enemies of reform." More>>
Iroquois Nationals executive director Percy Abrams has difficulty putting into perspective what his team won and, perhaps, lost by refusing to travel on non-Native passports and compete at the World Lacrosse Championships in England. More>>
Amtrak says it is buying 130 new single-level rail cars, a contract that will create 575 jobs at a New York plant. More>>
ALBANY, NY (AP) - The Adirondack Park Agency and the state Department of Environmental Conservation say they'll hold three public hearings on a series of management actions proposed for the central and More>>
This year's meet will last for 40 days, the race course's longest stretch in more than a century. More>>
Talk of layoffs is once again rattling state employees after Governor Paterson's office confirms job cuts are still on the table. More>>
The woman who brought domestic violence allegations against a suspended top aide of New York Gov. David Paterson said she plans to refile charges. More>>
State auditors want an investigation into whether upstate New York customers of National Grid are paying an unfair share of the British utility's corporate costs in the Northeast region. More>>
President Barack Obama has signed an extension of unemployment benefits for millions of long-term unemployed people, capping a hard-fought political fight with Republicans. More>>
Two Norwegian journalists face trespassing charges after they were arrested on the New York estate where Chelsea Clinton is expected to get married. More>>
The Seneca Nation of Indians has donated $10,000 to pay for travel expenses and hailed the Iroquois Nationals lacrosse team for refusing to travel to England on non-Native passports. More>>
The Saratoga Race Course thoroughbred meet that opens Friday could end up being more about which horses aren't running than the runners who do show up. More>>
Former women's world champion Erin Hamlin and 3-time Olympian Tony Benshoof are among 14 athletes who will be part of USA Luge's season-opening training camp starting Friday. More>>
The sweeping overhaul of financial regulations signed into law by President Barack Obama on Wednesday is being criticized by two Republican contenders for Senator Kirsten Gillibrand's seat. More>>
It's duck season in the NewYork governor's race. More>>
A House investigative committee has charged New York Rep. Charles Rangel, the former chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, with multiple ethics violations. More>>
A Long Island man is dead after he jumped in front of a train, and when police went to his home to notify his next of kin they found two more dead bodies. More>>
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Sen. Charles Schumer says dairy farmers are faced with a regulation that unintentionally holds them to the same standard for cleaning up for spilled milk as a petroleum producer would More>>
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - Gov. Jim Douglas has joined four other governors on a high-security trip to Iraq. More>>
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Dozens of New York state legislators, their challengers and others seeking statewide office have joined former Mayor Ed Koch's "Heroes of Reform." More>>
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Gov. David Paterson is setting the stage for a showdown with the Legislature that would force lawmakers back to Albany and away from their campaigns to finish a state budget that's nearly four months overdue. More>>
Unionized nurses at North Adams Regional Hospital have authorized a strike if contract negotiations with hospital management break down. More>>
Rotterdam police are warning people of more than a dozen home break-ins in recent weeks, and authorities say there's a good possibility that they're all connected. More>>
During a highly attended public meeting Tuesday night, Cobleskill Village Mayor Mark Nadeau announced he will resign his position amid allegations he used a racist remark on audio tape. More>>
If you are out on parole, you might want to behave yourself in Baltimore and the State of Maryland. More>>
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Officials in New York and Pennsylvania plan to sue a power plant they say violates federal environmental regulations, creating a major source of air and water pollution. New York Attorney More>>
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - Vermont's unemployment rate continues to inch downward. The state Department of Labor says the jobless rate for June was 6 percent, down about two-tenths of a point from May and More>>
A pile of rubble is all that's left of a home on Route 23A. More>>
