Families challenge juvenile incarceration

Click here to play or download an audio version of this report. Andrea Sears reports community advocates are in Albany today asking state legislators to reform the juvenile justice system. New York i...

Child product safety bill clears Assembly

Click here to play or download an audio version of this report. Andrea Sears reports from New York News Connection for Public News Service that the New York state Assembly has overwhelmingly approved...

NRC orders new analysis of Indian Point

Click here to play or download an audio version of this report. Andrea Sears reports from New York News Connection for Public News Service that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has ruled that its ow...

Feature Story: Young voters turned out this week in New York

Click here to play or download an audio version of this report. Andrea Sears reports from New York News Connection for Public News Service that exit polling shows young people turned out in big numbe...

Ground still dry, at 'high' fire risk

Locally, the ground is dry, and a residential brush burning ban remains in effect through May 14. In the past week there have been reports of brush fires in Hillsdale, Jewett, New Baltimore, Catskil...

Feature Story: Vote looming on possible New York State Constitutional Convention

Click here to play or download an audio version of this report. Andrea Sears reports from New York News Connection for Public News Service that Gov. Andrew Cuomo says he supports holding a state cons...

It was a busy year for bear hunters locally

Dick Nelson in the Register-Star reports that 14 bears were killed in Columbia County with 66 in Greene County, and 135 in Ulster County, during the 2015 hunting season. Ancram, Austerlitz, and Copake...

Verizon strike begins Wednesday

Larry Rulison in The Albany Times-Union reports Verizon Communication’s two major unions -- with 1,000 employees in the Capital Region -- begin striking at 6 a.m. April 13, they announced Monday. Unle...

Report details divide between prison union and internal affairs unit

The Marshall Project and The New York Times have a large report on the current battle between the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision and the the New York State Correcti...

Columbia County poor live longer than poor in nearby counties

Gregor Aisch, Quoctrung Bui, Amanda Cox, and Kevin Quealy report in The New York Times that poor residents in Schoharie and Columbia counties live longer then poor residents in surrounding counties. S...

Education money going to casinos

Click here to play or download an audio version of this report. Andrea Sears reports from New York News Connection for Public News Service that education advocates say a provision buried in the new s...

Prisoners eat more local foods, less 'Loaf'

Casey Seiler at Capitol Confidential reports the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision has gone locavore, replacing several out-of-state items on its prison menus in favor of $1.8...

New York nuclear plant closing

Click here to play or download an audio version of this report. Andrea Sears reports from New York News Connection for Public News Service that the FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant in Oswego will perm...

DOH says Hoosick Falls water is safe

Lindsay Ellis reports in The Albany Times-Union reports that the water is now safe in the Rennselaer County town of Hoosick Falls, according to the state Department of Health on March 30. Tests, the D...

Lower Hudson River faces decades of PCB problems, study says

William J. Kemble in The Daily Freeman reports that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration study says the lower Hudson River will have PCB problems "decades longer" then earlier projecti...

Seniors looking for budget help

Click here to play or download an audio version of this report. Andrea Sears reports from New York News Connection for Public News Service that low-income seniors need help to stay in their homes. Th...

Minimum wage hike would aid immigrants

Click here to play or download an audio version of this report. Andrea Sears reports from New York News Connection for Public News Service that raising New York's minimum wage to $15 an hour would be...

Group calls for solitary confinement to end

Click here to play or download an audio version of this report. Andrea Sears reports from New York News Connection for Public News Service that from Grand Central Station in New York City to the publ...

Mixed martial arts bill goes to governor

Matthew Hamilton in The Albany Times-Union reports that New York State Assembly passed legislation to legalize professional mixed martial arts bouts in New York on March 22 113-25. The State Senate al...

Opera House construction bringing jobs

Governor Andrew Cuomo announced March 21 an $8.5 million spending project at the Hudson Opera House that will create 145 construction jobs. The Hudson Opera House is the oldest surviving theater in Ne...

Negative tax caps impacting school budgets

Click here to play or download an audio version of this report. Andrea Sears reports from New York News Connection for Public News Service that education groups are warning that New York's property-t...

Coxsackie-Athens project goes back to voters for a second time

Melanie Lekocevic is reporting in The Daily Mail voters in the Coxsackie-Athens Central School District are back at the polls until 9 p.m. March 22 about a proposed $17.9 million capital project, the...

Hudson Pride won't hold parade this year

The Hudson Pride organization announced March 20 that it would not hold a parade down Warren Street for the first time in six years this June. The group and parade launched in 2010, working to, "foste...

New York tries to slow Zika transmission

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo March 17 press briefing. With 49 cases so far in the state of New York, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced a plan to combat transmission of the Zika virus. Cuomo said hea...

Albany could archive or air committee meetings online

Matthew Hamilton in The Albany Times-Union reports that the New York State Assembly may approve plans to, "make audio and video of committee meetings available online." The state assembly is consideri...

Hunter may get new emergency communications tower

Jim Planck in The Daily Mail reports that Hunter may get improved 911 service if a tower replacement on Hunter Mountain is approved. The new first responder communications tower would be placed slight...

Assembly budget includes money for bikes and pedestrians too

Click here to play or download an audio version of this report. Andrea Sears reports from New York News Connection for Public News Service that transportation safety advocates are applauding the Asse...

Germantown officials consider law for their own protection with March 22 hearing

Debby Mayer in The Columbia Paper reports that public officials in Germantown want to protect themselves with a new law for, “the defense and indemnification of officers and officials,” that will be d...

Long Island election could sway Albany

Matthew Hamilton in Capitol Confidential reports that in New York, a Long Island special election for the 9th Senate district will be more important then the presidential poll on April 19. The Long Is...

DEC releases trout in local waters

Now through June the state Department of Conservation is re-stocking trout in local waterways, with brown and rainbow trout being added. In Greene County, just brown trout are being added to Basic Cre...

Albany begins to consider ethics reform

Matthew Hamilton reports in Capitol Confidential that it is Sunshine Week in Albany, a period to focus on government transparency, but there is little movement on ethics reform there. “In Albany, unfo...

Groups oppose changes to New York's FOIL law

Click here to play or download an audio version of this report. Andrea Sears reports from New York News Connection for Public News Service that advocates of greater government transparency in New Yor...

Constitution Pipeline delayed

Brian Nearing reports in The Albany Times-Union that the owners of the proposed Constitution natural gas pipeline have pushed back the beginning of construction from the end of 2016 to the second half...

One less hour of time Sunday

New York moves from -5 UTC to -4 UTC on Sun., March 13 at 2 a.m., as an hour disappears on a 23-hour day with clocks springing forward. Daylight Savings Time remains in effect until Nov. 6, when clock...

Hudson boys basketball team loses in final four

Hudson High's boys basketball team lost their first game this year, March 11 in the state final four for Class B tournament, with Olean beating them 58 to 38 at the Glens Falls Civic Center. Hudson Hi...

Route 66 construction scheduled through November on Claverack Creek bridge

511NY.org reports that Route 66 will be closed northbound over the Claverack Creek beginning Mon., March 14, detouring drivers between Healy Boulevard and County Route 18 to to follow Route 23B to Rou...

Pioneer Bank comes to Greene County

Larry Rulison reports in The Albany Times-Union that Pioneer Bank is moving into Greene County, buying Cairo and Greenville branches from Berkshire Bank. Pioneer Bank has 21 locations in Albany, Schen...

Hudson boys basketball team heads to final four

Details for the students riding the bus & getting their ticket at the game.ALL HCSD STUDENTS GET FREE ADMISSION pic.twitter.com/LmXqSwgg5Z— Hudson High School (@HHSBluehawks) March 10, 2016...

Activists call for hearing on Albany ethics

Click here to play or download an audio version of this report. Andrea Sears reports from New York News Connection for Public News Service that government-reform advocates want the state to hold publ...

Legislators want local counties to give film tax break too

Patricia Doxsey in The Daily Freeman reports that Ulster, Greene, Columbia, Saratoga, Warren, Essex, Rensselaer, and Washington are the only counties in New York that do not give the film industry a t...

Trump, Clinton lead early New York polls

For the first time in 40 years, New York's April presidential primary may feature a still-undecided contest on both sides. Hillary Clinton leads Bernie Sanders by 21 points, 55-34, in the most recent...

It was a warm, wet winter

Temperatures in the Hudson Valley reached 80 on March 9, the warmest day this winter. Meteorological winter is from Dec. 1-Feb. 29, and the National Weather Service in Albany recently released statist...

The end of maple syrup weather?

The mercury may reach 70 on local thermometers March 9, and the National Weather Service in Albany is not predicting any lows below freezing in the next week. While the warm February temperatures star...

Devil's Kitchen trail donated to state for safer access

Jessica Porter reports in The Watershed Post that two local ice climbers, Morris Sachs and Marty Molitoris, bought a plot of Greene County land for $30,000 to donate it to New York State as a safe tra...

Hudson boys basketball wins again; in state final four Friday

The undefeated Hudson High School boys basketball team won again March 5 at SUNY Potsdam against Ogdensburg 7-63. Hudson High won the Section II title last week for only the third time (in the 1973-74...

Greene, Columbia counties worst in state for broadband

Katie Kocijanski and John Mason report in The Daily Mail that 79 percent of Greene County residents and 74 percent of Columbia County residents don't have access to broadband of 6 megabits per second...

Hudson boys basketball team up against Ogdensburg Saturday

The undefeated Hudson High School boys basketball team plays next at 4:30 p.m. March 5 at SUNY Potsdam against Ogdensburg (16-8). Hudson High won the Section II title last week for only the third time...

Delaware County supervisors approve road plan for Constitution Pipeline

Bert More reports for The Mountain Eagle that the Delaware County Board of Supervisors passed a resolution unanimously at their February meeting that permits the county to enter into a road use agreem...

Albany judge considers Cruz ballot question

Kimberly Howard is reporting for CBS 6 in Albany a state Supreme Court judge is now considering a petition that would remove Texas Senator Ted Cruz's name from the Republican presidential primary ball...

Delaware County considers volunteer emergency response team

Robert Cairns reports in The Watershed Post that Delaware County may form a Community Emergency Response Team, a volunteer group to help the emergency services provided by fire departments and emergen...