After Thursday night’s meeting, Troy is moving toward adopting a ‘Good Cause’ Eviction law.

Longtime Bard College President Leon Botstein is named in thousands of emails in the Epstein files. The batch of documents released last week, which returns over 2,500 results for Leon Botstein’s name, shows Botstein communicated with Jeffrey Epstein for years after Epstein was a registered sex offender.

Earlier this month, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul detailed what Phase 1 of the New York State Museum transformation would look like. The project is backed by $150 million in state funding. WAMC’s Capital Region Bureau Chief Jesse Taylor had the chance to tour the Albany facility and ask the museum’s director how the money will be spent.

(Airs 02/05/26 @ 3 p.m.) WAMC’s David Guistina in conversation with Blair Horner, Senior Policy Advisor for NYPIRG, The New York Public Interest Research Group, about the $260 billion dollar state budget, the environment, higher education and much more.

Tonight, Troy’s all-Democratic City Council will examine legislation to give renters more rights.

With Lunar New Year on the horizon later this month, preparations and celebrations are underway. WAMC’s Sajina Shrestha visited one local high school whose festivities are already in full swing.

On Monday, a federal judge blocked the Trump administration’s pause on Temporary Protected Status for Haitians living in the United States. The move temporarily eased fears of deportation for nearly 350,000 people, including those in Spring Valley in Rockland County, home to one of New York’s largest Haitian communities.

New York Attorney General Letitia James announced Monday morning she’s bringing a lawsuit against the owners of the Kenney Apartments in Newburgh. Tenants of the affordable housing units have been without proper heat or hot water for years. The attorney general is seeking a court order that would require the apartments’ owners to repair the facilities and pay restitution to the tenants.

New York's comptroller has responded to a Capital Region state assemblyman’s calls for an investigation into utility rates.

The Olympic Regional Development Authority says around 70 skiers and riders at the Adirondack resort were stranded.