ALBANY — Eight months out from the November election, Gov. Kathy Hochul holds a sizable 20-point lead over Republican challenger Bruce Blakeman, according to a new poll from the Siena Research Institute. In a poll conducted from February 23-26 with 805 registered voters, Hochul led Blakeman ...
Julia Calderon’s power used to go out regularly. She lives in a rural part of Orange County, New York, near the New Jersey border, and remembers once having to bury an ice cream cake in the snow to keep it from melting on her daughter’s birthday. “Somehow it worked okay. ... We’re so ...
Anthony Constantino, one of the men seeking to be the next Republican congressman for the North Country, was removed from a meeting of the St. Lawrence County Republican Committee on Thursday night. According to committee chair Nancy Martin, Assemblyman Robert Smullen, R-Meco, and audio of ...
Beverly Footman wants to forget the three prison staffers who she says abused her while she was incarcerated — but they haunt her. One was a cook at Groveland Correctional Facility, where she was locked up in the early 1990s. Around three times a week for over a year, he would corner her in ...
ALBANY — State Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Amanda Lefton Feb. 13 announced the release of proposed changes to coolwater sportfish regulations that will help protect fish while spawning, increase the reproductive capacity of walleye in Lake Ontario’s eastern basin, ...
ALBANY — The New York State Troopers Police Benevolent Association is reminding drivers about a sweeping new license point system that is set to take effect Monday. The most significant change applies to any alcohol- or drug-related conviction or incident and aggravated unlicensed ...