There’s now a Democrat in the race for New York’s 21st Congressional District, one who may be familiar to voters in Watertown and the 24th Congressional District — Steven W. Holden Sr. Holden, who ran for Congress last year against Rep. Claudia Tenney, recently restarted his campaign ...

In many election cycles, there’s a snappy shorthand used to describe the type of voters who may help decide the winner. Think soccer moms or security moms. Even NASCAR dads. And now, the “mama bears.” These conservative mothers and grandmothers, who in recent years have organized for ...

HUDSON, N.H. — They acknowledge Donald Trump’s dominance, but weary Republicans across New Hampshire — even inside the governor’s office — are fighting to stop the former president from winning the first-in-the-nation primary. For now, however, they’re relying on little more than ...

SARANAC LAKE — The mayor of Saranac Lake plans to appoint village Trustee Matt Scollin as his new deputy mayor at the village’s board meeting on Monday. This appointment would mean that the current deputy mayor, Tom Catillaz, would be removed from the role but would remain on the ...

SARANAC LAKE — The mayor of Saranac Lake on Monday accused village trustees of holding an “illegal meeting” without him over the weekend. The board members, in turn, denied the allegation and called for an independent investigation into a dispute between the mayor and the village ...

WILMINGTON — Darin Forbes resigned from the deputy supervisor role for the town of Wilmington last week, citing changes to his personal life, conflicts on the board and the town supervisor’s “inability to separate personal feelings from town politics,” but Forbes will remain on the ...