ALBANY — The state Office for the Aging and Selfhelp Community Services announced Monday the availability of free access to Selfhelp’s Virtual Senior Center for any individual age 60 and older in New York state. Selfhelp Community Services created VSC in 2020 to help homebound and ...

The state Department of Environmental Conservation announced Thursday new actions and resources to protect and educate New Yorkers on the threat of human-made substance contamination. The DEC shared a 10-year progress report on efforts addressing PFAS and a study on the presence of PFAS in ...

Hanukkah — also spelled Chanukah or other transliterations from Hebrew — is Judaism’s “festival of lights.” On eiisrght consecutive nightfalls, Jews gather with family and friends to light one additional candle in the menorah — a multibranched candelabra. In Hebrew, Hanukkah ...

New York routinely issues commercial driver’s licenses to immigrants that may be valid long after they are legally authorized to be in the country, U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Friday and he threatened to withhold $73 million in highway funds unless the system is fixed and ...

It’s been 54 years since the infamous Attica prison uprising, when incarcerated men took over the maximum-security facility in western New York for nearly five days and drew nationwide attention to the abuse, neglect and racism they’d endured. The uprising prompted New York state to ...

ALBANY — Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Friday that the New York Power Authority, through its 2025 Tree Power program, is delivering 1,650 trees to 49 low-cost energy and energy efficiency customers, bringing additional sustainability benefits to municipalities and state agencies throughout the ...