Lack of staff has constrained special-needs organizations’ ability to offer care to Albany County residents, particularly those in remote areas, forcing one mother to consider leaving her home for the ...

M. Jennifer Danielle Brockley Hale, who was passionate about helping others, died suddenly on Thursday June 12, 2025. She was 64 “Born on March 24, 1961 to Jean and Warren Brockley,” her family wrote ...

Rodney Bryan Elble, who loved nature, died of a heart attack on Monday, June 9, 2025, while in one of his favorite places, the Adirondack Mountains. He was 76. He was born in Calais, Maine on Jan. 18, ...

Albany County is expanding a program that this week got a national award for preventing drug overdose deaths. The county’s Mobile Outreach Treatment and Overdose Response, known as MOTOR, program, ...

Tanja Morse, 71, faces 41 charges related to animal cruelty after authorities seized 22 dogs, 15 horses, one cow, and several ...

We commend Albany County for a street psychiatry program launched as a pilot program last week and urge support to make it grow and flourish. The psychiatry program is the next step on the progressive ...

Our hiking friend,” said David Bourque of the planned statue, “will provide an Instagram moment” for walkers completing the ...

Since our democracy is a government of the people, her account provides a useful lesson on how messy democracy can be.

Recently, in both the towns of Guilderland and Bethlehem I noted completely “blacked out” police vehicles. The markings identifying them as police vehicles are largely invisible and, although it seems ...

The Presbyterian Church here has been certified by the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) through February 2026 as an Earth Care ...

Not to sound like the broken record, but I have to bring it up. When, if ever, will we be getting high-speed internet for the ...

So my answer is that I’ve tried to have a tough mind and a tender heart as Martin Luther King described in his sermon you can read here: bit.ly/4kQqyRy.