When New York State instituted its single use plastic carryout bag ban in 2020 I was all for it, for both fashion and environmental reasons.

NewsChannel 13 Meteorologist Reid Kisselback provides the regional weather summary for Saturday, December 13, 2025.

A Schenectady County jury has ruled in favor of more than 1,100 former employees of St. Clare’s Hospital, ordering the Catholic Diocese of Albany and other defendants to restore their pensions.

Each weekday morning, The Roundtable's Joe Donahue is joined by various experts, journalists, educators, and commentators to discuss current events. On Roundtable Panel: The Week in Review, we feature your favorite panelists discussing news items from the previous week.

(Airs 12/12/25 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: Advocates call on Governor Hochul to sign an Omnibus Prison Reform package, State Senator James Skoufis, a Democrat, asks the Attorney General James to investigate a village election, and we’ll take a look at the city of Albany using social service case workers to some 911 calls.

Jimmy Vielkind breaks down the week's biggest stories in New York politics.

The Vermont National Guard is preparing for a deployment but the details are sparse.

Walking - the most natural thing. We walk from one room to the next, up and down aisles in the supermarket, to the car, from the car. We humans are the only animals that walk upright on two legs as our way of getting around.

Meteorologist Garett Argianas delivers the evening weather forecast for Friday, December 12, 2025.

(Airs 12/05/25 @ 3 p.m. & 12/07/25 @ 6 p.m.) The Media Project is an inside look at media coverage of current events with former Times Union Editor, current Upstate American, Substack columnist Rex Smith, Judy Patrick, former Editor of the Daily Gazette and former Vice President for Editorial Development for the New York Press Association, Barbara Lombardo, Adjunct Professor at the University at Albany and former Editor of the Saratogian, and Daily Freeman Publisher Emeritus Ira Fusfeld. On this week’s Media Project, Rex, Barbara, Judy and Ira talk about how journalists should respond to Trump when he attacks the press, the rise in lawsuits against the media, the controversy over typeface, and much more.

Chef Ric Orlando is back. We want to talk about your favorite holiday recipes. Ray Graf hosts.

The new bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany took questions from reporters this morning, a week after he was installed in the high-profile position.