Albany

Sheriff Dumond praises Sergeant Smith’s integrity, work ethic, superb demonstrated abilities, and overall devotion to the Sheriff’s Office

SUNY Chancellor Kristina Johnson delivered the annual; “State of the University System Address” Thursday morning in Albany at the Albany Capital Center. Johnson says society is rapidly arriving at a place, where post-secondary education is not something that's &q…

A Christmas Eve video posted to twitter on Tuesday afternoon shows nearly a dozen individuals (appearing to be male and in their teens) involved in a massive brawl at Crossgates Mall. The :24 second clip appears to be of at least two separate fights breaking out and may have started in a hallway por…

New York is set to become the first state in the U.S. to ban declawing cats while animal advocates lobby in Albany.

A financial advisor and lawyer has pleaded guilty for a scheme in which he and an ex-town judge stole millions of dollars from an upstate New York family's trusts.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has signed into law a new ban on drilling for oil and gas off the New York coast.

The Democrat-led New York state Senate is holding the first of three hearings dedicated to proposals to expand the labor rights of farmworkers.

In an unheralded portion of the Executive Budget, state leaders significantly expanded the ability of The New York Power Authority (NYPA) to supply clean electricity to residents by allowing NYPA to finance new renewable generation projects for qualifying municipalities, far more inexpensively than …

The recently approved state budget has $110 million for New York state's parks system, including millions for a new park to be built in Brooklyn.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says this year's state budget negotiations are particularly difficult because of revenue declines, the threat of big federal funding cuts and disputes with lawmakers over spending priorities.