Troy's all Democratic council voted Thursday night to limit the mayor's powers to declare a local emergency. The move — overriding a mayoral veto — is central to the city's debate over its controversial Flock cameras.

Municipalities around the country are mulling surveillance concerns surrounding the use of automated license plate reader cameras, including those manufactured by Flock Safety. In the Capital Region, Troy officials and residents have been grappling with regulating the use of Flock cameras by city police.

With the economy, inflation and prices top of mind for many midterm election voters, WAMC reporters spoke to people outside a Stewarts in Albany.

East Greenbush's Town Board held a two-hour public hearing on the Flock cameras Wednesday night.

With inflation on the rise, many in the Northeast are feeling the crunch when they go to the grocery store. In part of our series of stories leading into November’s midterms we sent WAMC Southern Adirondack Bureau Chief Aaron Shellow-Lavine out into the field to see how local food producers are taking the price shocks.

For aging and ill inmates incarcerated in New York, living out their later years in state custody can be daunting. State law contains provisions to grant them early release under certain circumstances, but meeting the standard is a tall order. Times Union reporter Gabe Levin discussed medical parole with WAMC's Sam Dingman.

The volunteers are "adopting a corner" to help immigrants in the Albany area as immigration-related detentions and deportations rise in Upstate New York.

Saratoga Springs residents are joining the growing list of northeast communities raising the alarm around the use of Flock cameras in their city – some spoke out at Tuesday’s city council meeting.

Averill Park Central School District buildings operated with a two-hour delay Wednesday morning as school officials monitored an ongoing situation in the surrounding area.

Troy Mayor Carmella Mantello is vetoing a local law that would restrict the mayor's ability to declare emergencies.