The state has allocated millions of dollars for workers to pave several stretches of state roads in the north country that sustained damage from extreme winter weather over time. Read More ⇒
ALBANY — On the 47th anniversary of the historic Roe v. Wade U.S. Supreme Court decision, New York lawmakers gathered at the State Capitol to push for passage of a bill that would establish a fund for abortions. Read More ⇒
Tedra Cobb, who’s running for Congress in New York’s 21st district, released a reform agenda Tuesday that focuses on taking power away from corporations and their influence in politics. Read More ⇒
ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday presented his budget proposal for the upcoming fiscal year, including solutions to close the state’s looming $6.1 billion deficit. Read More ⇒
MALONE — The Franklin County Highway Department is taking extra steps to make its Malone garage more environmentally friendly. Read More ⇒
WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of New York’s congressional members sent a letter to the Federal Communications Commission last week expressing concern over the state not receiving funding for rural broadband initiatives. Read More ⇒
LAKE PLACID — A state assemblyman wrote a bill that proposes more than doubling the tax on beer to help fund public higher education. However, the leader of the state’s brewers’ association sees it as an attack on their way of life. Read More ⇒
SARANAC LAKE — Saranac Lake School Central School District Network Coordinator Caroleigh Meserole says there is an issue with students damaging their Chromebooks. Read More ⇒
ALBANY — Graduation rates are rising and achievement gaps are closing across New York, according to newly released data from the state Education Department. Read More ⇒
State Sen. Joseph A. Griffo, R-Rome, hopes to tackle the doctor shortage in the state, particularly in rural upstate communities, with a series of policy proposals he announced Friday. Read More ⇒
ALBANY — While states across the nation are gearing up to make sure all their residents are counted in the 2020 Census, for which representation and billions of federal dollars are at stake, recently released population data from the U.S. Census Bureau has brought projections that New York m… Read More ⇒
ALBANY — The start of the second year of a Democratic-controlled state Legislature has the majority excited and optimistic about the passage of bills on their agenda, and on Tuesday, some Democratic lawmakers were certain the Protect Our Courts Act would be one such bill. Read More ⇒
HENDERSON — A group opposed to a water level management plan for Lake Ontario is calling for litigation, lobbying and civil disobedience to force change. Read More ⇒
She defended President Donald Trump during his impeachment hearings in the House, and now U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik has been tapped to defend Trump’s re-election efforts in his home state of New York. Read More ⇒
WASHINGTON — Joining the chorus of lawmakers and law-enforcement officials voicing concerns over the new bail reform laws in New York, U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-21, took initiative in Washington, D.C., to study the results of pre-trial release. Read More ⇒
ALEXANDER — A chase that began in Wyoming County ended with a fatality on Main Street in the Genesee County village of Alexander when a vehicle crashed into a tree, killing the driver. Read More ⇒
ALBANY — The state Senate Democratic Majority proposed and passed a package of voting reform bills during the Senate’s first day of session. Read More ⇒
ALBANY — A few days after a Supreme Court judge issued a temporary injunction on Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s executive ban on flavored electronic cigarettes, New York legislators gathered with activists, educators and medical providers in Albany to push for the passage of two bills that would effect… Read More ⇒
SARANAC LAKE — Are you considering becoming a new volunteer at the Ice Palace but wonder what it entails? Here is a snapshot of a “typical” day. Read More ⇒
ALBANY — As state lawmakers returned to the Capitol this week, the bail reform law passed in last year’s historically productive legislative session has carried over into the new year with tension. Read More ⇒
VERMONTVILLE — The state offered surplus equipment to the town of Franklin Highway Department for temporary use after a fire destroyed the town garage and all of its plow trucks in December. Read More ⇒
KEENE VALLEY — Essex County is gearing up to launch a bus system to shuttle hikers to and from popular trailheads along Route 73 this summer. Read More ⇒
ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo took to the stage for his 2020 State of the State address Wednesday, highlighting a reel of his administration’s accomplishments over the last decade and introducing dozens of his proposals for the new legislative session. Read More ⇒
ALBANY — Unity, equality and progressiveness were themes and values heavily stressed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo during his 10th State of the State Address at the Empire State Plaza Convention Center on Wednesday. Read More ⇒
Gov. Andrew Cuomo is proposing a change to state law that he says would lower taxable income for an estimated 4,000 farmers and sole proprietors. Read More ⇒
U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-Schuylerville, and Democratic challenger Tedra Cobb broke fundraising records in the fourth quarter of 2019, with Stefanik pulling in $3.2 million and Cobb $2.05 million. Read More ⇒
ALBANY — Assemblyman Will Barclay, R-120, was unanimously elected new Assembly minority leader Tuesday. Read More ⇒
ALBANY — Continuing the theme of tackling the health care industry, Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s latest 2020 State of the State proposal is to increase transparency in health care costs. Read More ⇒
PULASKI — With Republican Assemblyman Brian Kolb’s New Year’s Eve driving while intoxicated arrest and subsequent resignation as the state assembly’s minority leader, former deputy minority leader and nine-term Assemblyman Will Barclay, R-Pulaski, stands very ready to take up the leadership … Read More ⇒
WILMINGTON — The state will rebuild the Mid-Station Lodge. Read More ⇒
WATERTOWN — Despite officials releasing more water from Lake Ontario than at any other time on record, the U.S. chairwoman of the International Joint Commission, which oversees the management of binational waters between the U.S. and Canada, claims it will only lower the height of the lake b… Read More ⇒
LAKE PLACID — Construction continues at Mount Van Hoevenberg. Read More ⇒
BUFFALO — A federal court judge on Tuesday halted the implementation of certain provisions of a new state law that extends a number of labor rights to farm workers. Read More ⇒
WILMINGTON — A fatal skiing incident at Whiteface Mountain is being investigated by the state police Bureau of Criminal Investigation in Ray Brook. Read More ⇒
Servers and other tipped workers in the hospitality industry will continue receiving subminimum wage because they will not be affected by the state’s decision to eliminate the subminimum wage and tipped credit for many workers. Read More ⇒
CAPE VINCENT — The Town Council’s effort to create a new municipal arena on Club Street will receive almost $850,000 from the state. Read More ⇒
DICKINSON — Dickinson Town Supervisor Sherry Smith learned that a car had careened into her front yard as a result of another crash at the dangerous intersection she lives near while she waits to hear what the New York State Department of Transportation might do about the crossroads. Read More ⇒
VICTOR — Brian M. Kolb, the state Assembly Minority Leader, was arrested on New Year’s Eve for driving under the influence after a crash in Ontario County. Read More ⇒
The state Department of Environmental Conservation has adopted a new regulation that clarifies what constitutes illegal feeding of deer or moose. It also establishes a requirement related to food labeling and provides a procedure for the use and authorization of automated tick control devices. Read More ⇒
ALBANY — Electric bikes and scooters won’t be coming to New York anytime soon, after Gov. Andrew Cuomo vetoed a bill Thursday that would legalize the increasingly popular modes of transportation. Read More ⇒
2019 marked the 50th anniversary of a study that unwittingly contributed to the violent and racialized policing that dominates our criminal justice system today. Read More ⇒
MASSENA — School districts have until July 1 to create policies and procedures to safeguard student data and other personnel information. Read More ⇒
BERKSHIRE — The grocery list took Anne Lee hours to make, an exercise in her increasingly desperate effort to feed her family of seven. Read More ⇒
More than 45 inmates, some who have already been released and others who will be released by early January, will no longer be held in county jails throughout Northern New York as a result of April legislation that reformed cash bail and pretrial detention rules. Read More ⇒
ALBANY — With the passage of the Green Light law, criminal justice reforms and the Climate Leadership and Protection Act, this past legislative session was a historically productive, successful one for the Democratic Party — and a sweet taste of life back the majority in the state Senate. Read More ⇒
ITHACA — A former Gouverneur man was killed in the lobby of the Ithaca Police Department headquarters early Saturday morning after wielding a knife with a nine-inch blade as he entered the lobby. Read More ⇒
ALEXANDRIA BAY — The state will financially back an environmental nonprofit’s acquisition of multiple island properties, an effort to inhibit invasive species and preserve the water quality of the St. Lawrence River, with more than $1 million in grant funding. Read More ⇒
One day late last month, SUNY Oswego associate journalism professor Eileen Gilligan took an unofficial poll of students in two of her classrooms. It came after a call from a Watertown Daily Times reporter seeking her input about the recently released PEN America study, “Losing the News: The … Read More ⇒
All of this has added up to a crisis in local news coverage in the United States that has frayed communities and left many Americans woefully uninformed, according to a report by PEN America released this year. Read More ⇒
Communities across upstate New York that sustained damage from a far-reaching storm around Halloween will have access to federal funds for repairs after it was declared a major disaster. Read More ⇒
ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo is proposing a statewide ban on plastic foam containers, including products like coffee cups and packing peanuts. Read More ⇒