Thirty-one New York hospitals are at risk of state Health Department officials forcing them to pause nonessential surgeries and procedures next week, state Health Department officials announced Friday. Read More ⇒
NEW YORK — Gov. Kathleen C. Hochul will not implement new statewide COVID-19 mandates after health officials Thursday confirmed five New Yorkers have contracted the omicron variant. Read More ⇒
Christopher Dick was at home enjoying a weekend evening cocktail with his wife when 35 years of buildup of emotion from responding to emergency incidents unraveled. Read More ⇒
WATERTOWN — A year after scrapping the project, Jefferson Community College will now avail itself to $2.5 million in Downtown Revitalization Initiative funding to create a downtown entrepreneur education center. Read More ⇒
ALBANY — Hundreds of letters were hand-delivered Wednesday to the Executive Chamber to Gov. Kathy Hochul’s office from anxious farmers and farm laborers pleading against the state Wage Board’s pending decision to lower the agricultural overtime threshold to 40 hours. Read More ⇒
ALBANY — State Education Department leaders struggled to communicate with, or get a response, from former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and his top aides throughout the COVID-19 pandemic as they waited on safety guidelines for New York schools, they told legislators during a hearing Tuesday. Read More ⇒
ALBANY — Five Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday endorsed Gov. Kathleen C. Hochul for election in 2022 to her first full term as governor, one day after another Democratic challenger entered the race, bolstering her upstate support. Read More ⇒
NEW YORK — A man’s body parts were found scattered across a stretch of the Long Island Expressway in Queens and authorities are unsure if he was struck by a hit-and-run driver or if his dismembered corpse was dumped there, police sources said Sunday. Read More ⇒
ALBANY — The state has enough resources to reach about half of its legislated climate goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through 2050, energy officials said Monday, as lawmakers pressed them on clean energy’s anticipated cost to taxpayers to address climate change. Read More ⇒
NEW YORK — Upstate hospitals have suffered a greater reduction in available beds than downstate health facilities as health experts in Albany continue to test for the omicron COVID variant not discovered in New York as of Monday, Gov. Kathleen C. Hochul said. Read More ⇒
CANTON — In the crowded Democratic race for Congress in New York’s 21st Congressional District, one candidate has received the St. Lawrence County Democratic Committee’s support. Read More ⇒
NEW YORK — Videos of former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s sometimes tense, sometimes playful testimony from the sexual harassment investigation that led to his resignation were released Monday, part of a broader dump of transcripts and clips by the state attorney general’s office. Read More ⇒
NEW YORK — Rep. Tom Suozzi announced Monday that he’s running for New York governor next year as a “commonsense Democrat” focused on kitchen table issues, potentially posing a thorn in the side of Gov. Kathy Hochul, who’s vying for election on a similarly centrist campaign platform. Read More ⇒
NEW YORK — On the cold, gray Monday morning after Thanksgiving, Ghislaine Maxwell became the first person to stand trial in connection with Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged sexual abuse of girls. Read More ⇒
New York City may already be seeing signs of a winter spike in COVID-19 even though holiday travel, gatherings and colder weather are just getting started. Read More ⇒
A day after declaring a state of emergency for New York, Gov. Kathleen C. Hochul is ordering nursing homes and adult-care facilities to make boosters available to all residents after hospitalizations across the state jumped 20% in the past week. Read More ⇒
MALONE — Franklin County Public Health has announced that COVID-19 vaccination clinics will be held every Thursday throughout December. Read More ⇒
GABRIELS — When state Sen. Dan Stec toured the long-shuttered Camp Gabriels state prison last week, he had prison closures on his mind. Read More ⇒
Advocates and prison staff continue to clash over the catalyst stoking spiking violent assaults in state facilities, increasing pressure on officials to take action after correction department leaders threatened incarcerated New Yorkers with additional consequences this week to curb assaults. Read More ⇒
ALBANY — The state Health Department can limit non-essential, elective hospital procedures under New York’s new state of emergency that returned Friday as new COVID-19 infections reach transmission levels from the early days of the pandemic and global health officials identified a new highly… Read More ⇒
SYRACUSE — Due to an ongoing shortage of nurses, Upstate University Hospital has reduced its number of staffed beds to maintain balance between managing high patient volumes and availability of staff. Read More ⇒
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration on Wednesday night fiercely defended the nomination of Saule Omarova as a top banking regulator after it was reported that five Democratic senators told the White House they wouldn’t support her. Read More ⇒
WATERTOWN — The city is preparing to file a lawsuit against the state in the death of city firefighter Peyton L.S. Morse, who died in March after having a medical emergency while training at the state fire academy in Montour Falls. Read More ⇒
A New York lawmaker is proposing a bill that would allow health insurance companies to deny coverage to those who refuse to get vaccinated against COVID-19. Read More ⇒
Federal and state leaders praised President Joseph R. Biden’s decision Tuesday to tap millions of gallons of fuel from the national reserve to lower energy prices. The move came as the leading Republican nominee in New York’s 2022 gubernatorial race started a lengthy tour demanding the gover… Read More ⇒
WATERTOWN — State Sen. Patricia A. Ritchie is echoing disappointment and anger over a state agency concluding that the state fire academy had no fault in the death of city firefighter Peyton L.S. Morse. Read More ⇒
WATERTOWN — Watertown Fire Chief Matthew Timerman is expressing indignation that a report leaves the state off the hook in the death of city firefighter Peyton L.S. Morse. Read More ⇒
ALBANY — An attorneys’ report released Monday revealed new evidence that former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo allegedly groped a staffer’s breast in the Executive Mansion last year, and confirms he misrepresented COVID-19 nursing home death data and used state resources to help publish his pandemic m… Read More ⇒
MASSENA — Six projects in St. Lawrence, Jefferson and Lewis counties were among 97 priority projects across the state that have been awarded funding through the Regional Economic Development Council Initiative. Read More ⇒
ALBANY — Legislative leaders will discuss COVID-19 vaccine protocols for the upcoming 2022 legislative session and the test-out option for members in both chambers, officials said. Read More ⇒
CARTHAGE — Local truck driver and Republican congressional candidate Lonny Koons will soon be making a trek across the district, from West Leyden in southern Lewis County to Schuylerville in Saratoga County. Read More ⇒
MALONE — Rotary Lake was filled with geese on a recent Saturday afternoon, drawing birders to Malone Village Memorial Park to take in the waterfowl’s annual migration. Read More ⇒
WATERTOWN — Many sports fans across the globe are familiar with John Sterling’s unique way of calling a game. Read More ⇒
ALBANY — A forthcoming 45-page report detailing the Assembly’s impeachment investigation into former Gov. Andrew Cuomo backs up sexual harassment and other misconduct claims leveled against the disgraced Democrat. Read More ⇒
WATERTOWN — Sales tax revenue achieved in the tri-county area in October well exceeded pre-pandemic levels for the same month in 2019. Read More ⇒
WATERTOWN — Mary A. Clark trained Darrin S. Pitkin around three decades ago when he just got out of the academy, and now, after recent promotions, they’re both among the top leaders of the New York State Police. Read More ⇒
Former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s attorney demanded state Attorney General Letitia A. James recuse herself from future decisions related to the former governor’s sexual harassment investigation and related evidence on the heels of the release of the transcripts of witness interviews last week an… Read More ⇒
POTSDAM — An organization consisting of businesses, economic developers and other institutional stakeholders from around the seven-county north country region has voiced opposition to the proposed closing of Ogdensburg Correctional Facility and Moriah Shock Incarceration Facility. Read More ⇒
New York will receive at least $27 billion to resuscitate its aging infrastructure, and millions of dollars to bridge the digital divide plaguing upstate, rural communities and low-income New Yorkers as part of the federal infrastructure package signed into law this week, officials said Wednesday. Read More ⇒
BUFFALO — Gov. Kathleen C. Hochul pledged Tuesday to work closely with local government officials as communities with low vaccination rates have driven a spike in COVID-19 infections as the holiday season and winter approaches. Read More ⇒
MASSENA — A New York Power Authority project to upgrade transmission lines has reached the mid-point. Read More ⇒
Following a request from U.S. Sen. Kirsten E. Gillibrand, new Frequently Asked Questions have been issued by the U.S. Department of Education on using emergency relief funds to address the nationwide bus driver shortage. Read More ⇒
ALBANY — New York’s ethics panel voted Tuesday to rescind approval of former Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s $5.1 million book deal. Read More ⇒
ALBANY — New York women and minority groups struggling to balance work and family caregiving were forced to leave the workforce or change industries, contributing to the state’s record job loss and labor decline during the COVID-19 pandemic, officials said Monday. Read More ⇒
Candidates from both major political parties officially launched their bids Monday to run for state attorney general in 2022, joining a New York City attorney vying for the Republican nominee. Read More ⇒
NEW YORK — It’s high time to give the vaccine another shot. Read More ⇒
PITTSBURGH — A new report confirms what college leaders had feared: COVID-19 and resulting travel barriers caused unprecedented international enrollment losses — down 15% nationally. The drop among new international students was even more jarring, down 46% from the previous year. Read More ⇒
ALBANY — Lawmakers on the Assembly Judiciary Committee will get their first look at a report drafted in the wake of the panel’s aborted impeachment investigation into former Gov. Andrew Cuomo next week. Read More ⇒
Lawyers representing 17 health care workers in New York have petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in their battle to overturn Gov. Kathy Hochul’s industry-wide vaccine mandate. Read More ⇒
Franklin County officials are reporting a recent “spike” in COVID-19 cases that they’re attributing to Halloween. They are asking that everyone wear masks indoors, physically distance from others and meet outside when possible. Read More ⇒
LYONS FALLS — Alanah S. Pearson found herself sitting on a boulder in May, about a mile up from the trailhead of Cascade Mountain, near Keene, Essex County, depressed and defeated, wondering what she was doing on an Adirondack High Peak. Read More ⇒