As Washington has tightened its grip on social services, New York officials have said little about how they plan to adapt the state’s safety net amid a growing affordability crisis. That may change during Thursday’s budget hearing in Albany, which will provide a rare opportunity for ...
MASSENA — Massena Central High School Principal Alan C. Oliver has some advice about cellphones. Don’t take them to bed with you. His warning came after an incident at the high school on Jan. 23 that led to an “emergency dismissal” for students. “As everyone knows, we had to ...
MASSENA — A resounding series of “nos“ were heard from speakers who packed the Massena Town Hall last week for a 90-minute public comment session to discuss adding data centers as a permitted use in the town’s industrial zones. Speakers during the town board’s monthly meeting, ...
NEW YORK — Manhattan prosecutors urged a judge on Wednesday to set a July trial date in Luigi Mangione ’s state murder case in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, two months before jury selection in his federal death penalty case. In a letter, Assistant District Attorney ...
NEWTON FALLS — Two men died over the weekend when a snowmobile went through the ice on a river in the northern Adirondacks during an ice fishing trip, according to state police, and a 6-year-old boy survived and made his way off the ice to a home. According to police, at about 7:40 p.m. ...
Gov. Kathy Hochul and the state lawmakers who oversee horse racing expressed serious concern this week about regulators’ failure to investigate buyers of illegal horse drugs. Their comments came after New York Focus revealed that key evidence from an FBI investigation into an international ...