As the new school year nears, one Hudson Valley school district is set to adopt a new curriculum for students in kindergarten through eighth grade.

WAMC’s David Guistina in conversation with Ivan Lajara, Regional Managing Editor for the Daily Freeman, Saratogian, Troy Record, and Oneida Dispatch, about the Kingston Common Council approving a police contract that includes a 3.75% pay raise.

A Newburgh Police Department report obtained by WAMC says hundreds of thousands of searches by law enforcement agencies around the country included the City of Newburgh Police Department’s Flock License Plate Reader Network.

At least one mosquito in Orange County was found to be carrying West Nile Virus.

Jonathan Becker is the school's first new leader since 1975, when Leon Botstein became president. Botstein stepped down earlier this year following revelations about his connection to Jeffrey Epstein.

The Department of Environmental Conservation's Hudson River Estuary Action Agenda describes several threats facing the river -- runoff and contamination caused by increasing rainfall, invasive species that could harm indigenous fish populations, harmful algal blooms, and bigger boats.

Ulster County officials are squabbling over the discovery of an official's personal camera hidden near the entrance to a county building for surveillance purposes.

The moratorium passed Tuesday by the Orangetown Town Board will not apply to the company Databank's plans for a second data center already before the planning board.

The city's planning board conducted a site visit earlier this week, prompting scrutiny of the Housing Authority's plan to demolish and rebuild the property.

Recent news that cleanup of a superfund site at a Hudson Valley air national guard base will be delayed for 20 years comes as local activists with Newburgh Clean Water Project prepare to celebrate the importance of clean water.