Albany

The FBI Albany Field Office says it found potential plans of violence at Siena when processing a cellphone 23-year-old Dawson Maloney used.

The case stems from a June 20, 2022, incident in which Frazier pulled a knife on officers responding to a domestic dispute on Franklin Street.

The move comes after multiple review board members have resigned in recent months. It has only held a single meeting so far this year due to a lack of quorum.

Albany’s Community Police Review Board has had myriad issues since coming under city control last year. Most recently, the board sent a letter to the Common Council detailing concerns surrounding one board member’s professional conduct. Soon after WAMC reported on the letter, The Center of Law and Justice’s Executive Director Ta-Sean Murdock called on the Common Council and Community Police Review Board to do better. WAMC’s Capital Region Bureau Chief Jesse Taylor met with Murdock at the center to discuss his concerns.

The Albany Center for Law and Justice is calling on the city’s Common Council and Community Police Review Board to regain the public's trust.

Albany Mayor Dorcey Applyrs is bringing attention to new Common Council legislation that would amend the city’s heavily debated inclusionary zoning laws.

In Albany, Black History Month this year comes as the city now has its first ever Black mayor. With that as a backdrop, WAMC’s Capital Region Bureau Chief Jesse Taylor sat down with a few members of the Albany NAACP to talk about the policies they want to see from local lawmakers.

The race for New York’s 20th Congressional District briefly took the spotlight at Democrat Paul Tonko’s town hall Wednesday.

After an Albany pediatric nursing facility reached a settlement with the New York State Attorney General’s Office, one father says his daughter experienced neglect while staying at the facility.

An Albany resident says he received mail on Saturday. But before then, he hadn’t gotten a delivery in about a week. The resident is one of a number of locals reporting delivery issues.