ALBANY — New signs could soon pop up in local gun shops across New York, if a bill passed by the state legislature is signed into law this year. In early June, the state Assembly and Senate voted to pass a bill that would require firearms dealers to post conspicuous signs in their stores ...

ALBANY (AP) — Federal environmental officials said Wednesday they need to collect more data from the Hudson River before they determine how well six years of dredging completed in 2015 to clean up the river is working. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released a draft review on ...

WASHINGTON — Senator Kirsten E. Gillibrand has put forward a bill that would eliminate the blood quantum rule that requires Native Americans to prove they have at least 50% Native ancestry in order to freely cross the U.S.-Canada border. Federally recognized Native American nations located ...

New York state is spending nearly $2 million this year to promote the county and local fairs that dot upstate, launching a wide advertising blitz and a new “County Fairs Passport” program aimed at getting New Yorkers and out-of-state visitors onto the fairgrounds. “As a former 4-H kid, I ...

UTICA — Hundreds of mourners turned out Saturday morning to pay their respects to 13-year-old Nyah Mway, the Utica teen who was shot and killed by a police officer on Friday, June 28. The service and burial at a local cemetery were a quiet and somber affair on the city’s west side. Many of ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Patrick Bertoletti gobbled up 58 hot dogs to win his first men’s title Thursday at the annual Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July hot dog eating contest, taking advantage of the absence of the event’s biggest star. In the women’s competition, defending champion Miki Sudo ...