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THERESA — More than 1 million smuggled cigarettes were confiscated on April 14 following a traffic stop by U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to the Wellesley Island Station Anti-Smuggling Unit with the assistance of the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office.

ALBANY — Plans to streamline the siting of transmission line projects in New York were included in the final budget plan, and supporters are celebrating changes they say will benefit the state’s ambitious clean energy goals. The Renewable Action Through Project ...

WATERTOWN — The Sisters of St. Joseph will soon be moving from the home they’ve lived in for nearly 50 years.

WATERTOWN — The Sisters of St. Joseph will soon be moving from the home they’ve lived in for nearly 50 years.

FORT DRUM — A new U.S. Coast Guard unit has opened at Fort Drum — the Marine Safety Unit: Thousand Islands.

ALBANY — A state appellate court delivered a devastating blow to the Archdiocese of New York in a unanimous decision Tuesday that found the Catholic organization’s longtime insurer can move forward with its case challenging whether its policies covered claims ...

ALBANY — An attorney for the State Police argued before an appellate court on Tuesday that it would be “unduly burdensome” to release more than 8,000 disciplinary files stretching back nearly two decades that detail internal investigations of thousands of current and former ...

ALBANY — In a worrying new Marist poll, an eye-popping 37 percent of New Yorkers said they plan to leave the state within five years.  That is… not good, and we can only hope most don’t mean it, given the catastrophe that ...

ALBANY — The first criminal trial of a former U.S. president has prompted another historic first: The state court system will publish daily transcripts of the proceedings in the matter of The People of the State of New York v. Donald ...

Taxpayers saw their tax refunds shrink last year due to the expiration of pandemic benefits. But some people may get a boost in 2024.