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Jesse Taylor/WAMCA Schenectady fire that caused severe burns on a man’s head, hands and face ignited when a man used a chemical solvent in his basement, according to the fire department. -
Maryam Ahmad/WAMCForty years after he began his academic career at Hudson Valley Community College, Omar Yaghi returned to the campus to be honored as a 2025 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry.
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Voters in the Wynantskill Union Free School District have approved a plan to merge with the Enlarged City School District of Troy. -
WAMC’s David Guistina in conversation with Sam Mellins, Senior Reporter at New York Focus, about the pension battle heating up in Albany. -
More than 50 kids who rely on afterschool programming at one Clifton Park community center will have to go elsewhere for the time being after a car drove through it Sunday. But there's been an outpouring of local support to get the center reopened. -
WAMC's David Guistina in conversation with Mike Goodwin, News Editor at The Times Union, about the latest on a cancer-causing chemical found in Saratoga Springs drinking water. -
According to the city police, officers found a 15-year-old boy with a gunshot wound to his lower leg at around 2 a.m. in a residence on Lark near Orange Street. After further investigation, police determined the wound was “accidentally self-inflicted.” -
A building on New York state’s Harriman Campus in Albany was evacuated Monday morning after an emailed bomb threat, according to New York State Police. Troopers say Building 4 has since been reopened after a sweep determined there were no “incendiary devices.” -
Many in the LGBTQ+ community observe March 31 as a day to celebrate the transgender community while also raising awareness about the discrimination they face. Sajina Shrestha attended a fashion show Sunday to learn how locals celebrated. -
Millions of Americans took to the streets Saturday as part of the third major No Kings demonstrations, thousands of upstate New Yorkers participated in local rallies. -
While Mayor Dorcey Applyrs has made her second appointment to the city’s Community Police Review Board, the oversight committee is still looking to recruit more members. -
Calling the deal “an important first step in forming a chapter 11 plan” to help the diocese exit bankruptcy, the church made the settlement announcement Friday with the Official Committee of Tort Claimants. The Albany diocese filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2023.
