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ALBANY — After New York’s highest court rejected a challenge to a recent law that will move most local elections to odd-numbered years, the statute’s opponents are now taking their...

ALBANY — It’s not often that prosecutors and public defenders agree on policy, but both sides have united behind a bill soon to be considered by Gov. Kathy Hochul that...

ALBANY — The head of the union representing members of the Sullivan County Sheriff’s Department patrol division said they were never told that a suspect arrested by deputies on weapons charges...

Last week, 700 people attended a public workshop held to determine how the state should spend $200 million on downtown Albany. That’s an impressive and hope-generating turnout, even if we...

ALBANY — Eight former judges, including former Court of Appeals Chief Judge Janet DiFiore, filed a “friend of the court” legal brief this week seeking dismissal of a U.S. Justice Department...