Jesse Taylor

111th District Assemblyman Angelo Santabarbara calls on state comptroller to look into increasing utility rates.

Edna Mae-Davis Howard has long been known as the “community grandma” of Albany’s Arbor Hill neighborhood. This week, the 99-year-old was honored by new Mayor Dorcey Applyrs.

Albany County Executive Dan McCoy previously said the $35 million in bonds used to purchase the former Saint Rose campus would be paid off in February. That date has changed.

The Schenectady City Council enters a second week of stagnation as leaders can't agree on council president.

Matt Nelligan, a Republican who unsuccessfully ran for Schenectady mayor in 2023, has been named executive director of the Schenectady County GOP Committee. The move comes after the city’s GOP Committee was absorbed in November by the county committee under new Chairwoman Liz Joy. WAMC’s Capital Region Bureau Chief Jesse Taylor spoke with Nelligan about his strategy to win elections and rebuild the GOP in a county where enrolled Democrats nearly double enrolled Republicans.

In Schenectady County, Glenville police officers are taking Brazilian jiu-jitsu classes as part of a wellness program that’s designed to help them approach interactions more peacefully.

After not having a quorum and canceling two monthly meetings as a result, Albany’s Community Police Board met Thursday night for the first time since October. WAMC's Lucas Willard spoke with Capital Region Bureau Chief Jesse Taylor about the meeting and the circumstances surrounding it.

Capital Region lawmakers and protesters are condemning Immigration and Customs Enforcement after one of its officers shot and killed a 37-year-old Minneapolis mother Wednesday. Protesters and officials demonstrated outside of the James T. Foley Courthouse in Albany Thursday.

After former Council President Marion Porterfield lost her reelection bid in November, the council has been unable to come to consensus on a new president

Cigarette smokers across New York vow to quit every new year. One Latham man overcame his addiction with the help of a state program.