Jesse Taylor

A group advocating for the homeless is calling on Albany County to use a portion of the 71 buildings the Pine Hills Land Authority purchased last year on the former Saint Rose campus as shelter for the unhoused.

48-year-old Charles Nadeau was 6 years old when he says he first experienced abuse at the Trinity Catholic School in Massena, New York, in the late 1980s.

The Schenectady City Council is still trying to finalize a 2026 budget after Mayor Gary McCarthy vetoed the council’s proposal earlier this month. At this week’s council committee meeting, the city’s attorney, Maxine Barasch, recommended the council pass the mayor’s version of the budget – or possibly find themselves in court.

Inclusionary zoning took center stage at Albany’s Common Council meeting Monday. In recent months Mayor Kathy Sheehan has contended that the law intended to promote affordable housing development is actually a hinderance.

An Albany bar owner says he shuttered his Lark Street establishment in part because of the city’s cumbersome cabaret regulations. He said the Albany Common Council should repeal the cabaret license laws instead of just amending them.

A former employee who lost his retirement benefits after the St. Clare’s Hospital pension fund dried-up took the stand Tuesday in the trial of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany.

In April of last year, a 76-year-old man was killed on the Mohawk-Hudson Bike Trail in Menands.

The Schenectady City Council is trying to finalize its budget proposal for the 2026 fiscal year after Mayor Gary McCarthy vetoed the first proposal earlier this month. The council now is awaiting approval from the mayor on its latest version of the spending plan. At the same time, city leaders are reviewing candidates to fill a seat that as vacated when former councilmembers Joseph Mancini, resigned his post in August.

A project to renovate Albany’s Empire State Plaza is one of many being backed by a $400 million state investment included in this year’s New York state budget to help reimagine the capital city. The state Office of General Services is collecting public input on suggested changes.

Siena University’s ninth president, Father Kevin Mackin, died on Saturday at age 87. Members of the Saints community remember Mackin, who led Siena from 1996 to 2007, as a person of the people.