Jesse Taylor

Housing and affordability took center stage at a Schenectady candidate forum as city council incumbents work towards finalizing next year’s budget.

Activists and religious leaders are reflecting on the war in Gaza as they remember the October 7th Hamas attacks in Israel.

The man who confessed to killing and burying his parents in a backyard in Albany last month appeared in County Court Monday for his arraignment.

The more than $120 million budget proposal represents a 3.17 percent, or nearly $4 million, increase over last year’s budget.

Attorneys delivered opening statements today in the trial of a 26-year-old who is accused of abandoning her daughter in a drainage pipe on General Electric’s Schenectady campus last year.

The trial of Persia Nelson – a 26-year-old mother accused of leaving her daughter for dead in a Schenectady drainage pipe last year – has begun.

Union College’s women’s hockey team is gearing up for a new season. It will begin a new era as Friday’s game will debut the much-anticipated new home of Garnet Chargers hockey.

New York has rolled out a new program that relies on manufactured homes to tackle housing affordability.

Schenectady’s Planning Commission Board on Wednesday approved a controversial site plan for the construction of a Starbucks on Erie Boulevard, but neighborhood advocates are accusing the city’s mayor of tipping the scales.

Adonis Richards became the City of Schenectady’s first ever poet laureate after last week’s City Council meeting. The 31-year-old is the author of three poetry collections and a Program Coordinator at Union College’s Office of Intercultural Affairs. He will serve as poet laureate for two years. I spoke to Richards about his inspiration, origins and vision for the new role.