A few days before Christmas, Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul delivered a lump of coal to a large swath of New Yorkers. Hochul vetoed a bill last week that would have imposed a statewide ban on non-compete agreements, which tend to prevent workers from leaving their job to work for a rival ...

This week’s Straw Poll: How often do you follow through with New Year’s resolutions? --- This poll is not scientific, and its results represent only the opinions of Internet users who have chosen to participate.

(Editor’s note: Eight-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon wrote a letter to the editor of New York’s Sun newspaper, and the quick response was printed as an unsigned editorial Sept. 21, 1897. The work of veteran newsman Francis Pharcellus Church has since become history’s most reprinted ...

State Sen. Dan Stec, R-Queensbury, joined 14 of his Republican colleagues last week in calling for Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul to either lift the state’s electric school bus mandate or to fully fund the conversion process. Stec and his colleagues are correct in many of their criticisms of ...

In the North Country, heroes are all around us. A local UPS driver, Corey Howe, was presented with the Liberty Mutual Life Saver Award last week at a UPS warehouse in Plattsburgh. For those who may not remember, Howe, 49 — whose delivery route extends from Plattsburgh to Elizabethtown ...

This week’s Straw Poll: How often do you see yourself using the Adirondack Trail Trail once it's completed? --- This poll is not scientific, and its results represent only the opinions of Internet users who have chosen to participate.