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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — More than 160 women who are elected officials or hold other leadership posts have written to New York's top elected officials, all men, urging them to enact public campaign financing. Calling it "vital" to participation in politics by women in particular, they want Gov...

Academy-nominated director/producer/journalist David France will be the keynote speaker at the Catskill Mountains Film Festival this May.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York officials have formed a new task force to help farmers. Gov. Andrew Cuomo says the task force will include farmers and state officials and will be charged with improving how state agencies work with people in the agriculture industry...

State Police at Norwich arrested a Town of Smithville man Monday on a charge of 2nd degree murder. 29-year-old Kyle V. Whitfield was arrested after an investigation into a physical altercation and the subsequent stabbing death of 33- year-old James B...

Advocates and lawmakers say a tour of school districts across the state shows New York is failing to adequately fund public education. The Alliance for Quality Education and Campaign for Fiscal Equity toured 14 school districts. They say the state is failing to provide the "sound, basic education" required by a 2006 court ruling in a lawsuit over funding New York City's schools... Read M

A former Tioga County car dealer, twice convicted of murder in the disappearance of his wife and who is awaiting a third trial, is looking for the ‘real killer’ of Michele Harris.  Cal Harris and his four children are expected to formally launch a confidential tip line tomorrow to gather information about the September, 2001 disappearance of the Town of Spencer woman.  ...

The New Berlin man accused of killing his wife in December of 2012 appeared in Chenango County Court Monday morning. Ganesh Ramsaran appeared after both of his attorneys requested to be dismissed. His attorneys, James Chamberlin of Norwich and F...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Maple producers across New York are planning open houses the last two weekends in March, but so far the season is off to a slow start because of frigid weather. The best weather for sap is daytime temperatures in the low 40s and nighttime lows in the 20s...

After receiving more than 1,500 comments, 16,000  letters, and 30,000 signatures on various petitions over the past five weeks, the Department of Environmental Conservation had decided to revise its mute swan management plan. "The draft plan for management for mute swans received significant public interest and DEC received many thoughtful and substantive comments," Commissioner Martens

WASHINGTON (AP) — New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is telling federal officials that the Empire State needs its bees to pollinate crops. Gillibrand wrote Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack to ask him to expand the department's efforts to revive bee populations in New York and the Northeast...