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Josh Landes/WAMCThe One Big Beautiful Bill Act made dramatic changes to who will be eligible for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and thousands of New Yorkers will no longer be eligible for the food assistance benefit. The costs of SNAP, like administration and benefits, are being shifted to New York counties. And they only have months to figure it out. -
Sajina Shrestha/WAMC NewsThe proposal is the latest chapter in a contentious discourse over the license-plate-reading cameras between the all-Democratic council and Republican Mayor Carmella Mantello.
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A building at the Jericho Drive-In caught fire late Monday. -
The family of a Newburgh man who died during a New Year’s Day encounter with police after a pursuit ended in a crash is concerned by the narrative of events laid out in a police report they recently received. -
Saratoga Springs officials are looking to amend the city’s charter, again, but some residents are raising concerns over one set of proposed changes. -
Bow hunting may be allowed in Saratoga Spa State Park as soon as this fall. -
Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation to reauthorize the Farm Bill. The bill now moves to the Senate just weeks after a report from the New York State Comptroller’s Office found the state is losing farms and farmland at twice the national rate, especially for small farms. -
The city is conducting its own internal investigation into the incident. -
Those honored Tuesday will now be memorialized in the New York State Police Officers Memorial at the Empire State Plaza in Albany. -
There were a record number of visits to the venues operated by the Olympic Regional Development Authority in the 2025-26 fiscal year. Officials attribute the interest to several factors including state investment. -
Mother-daughter relationships can take on many forms, including in drag culture, where a drag mother functions as a mentor to her drag daughter. Ahead of Mother’s Day, a local mother-daughter drag duo shares more about the importance of these maternal figures to drag performers. -
WAMC's David Guistina in conversation with Mike Goodwin, News Editor at The Times Union, on remembering Peter Kermani, a longtime Albany Symphony Chairman.
