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The new mugshot legislation that passed in the state budget this month has been sometimes described as a mugshot “ban.” That’s not entirely accurate — most local law enforcement agencies will be able to choose whether they make mugshots public or not.

Demand for natural gas is growing across the Northeast. Meanwhile, natural gas production is booming in Pennsylvania.

In Song of Myself, Whitman says, "For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you."

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) The Environmental Protection Agency is poised to make an announcement on General Electric's $1.7 billion Hudson River cleanup.

NEW YORK (AP) A civil rights attorney says opponents are planning a lawsuit this week over New York City's order requiring everyone in a heavily Orthodox Jewish neighborhood to be vaccinated for measles.

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) The state of Vermont has reached a settlement with a plastics company to ensure hundreds of people in the Bennington area have access to clean drinking water.

The Massena Memorial Hospital continues to deal with its financial problems. It is millions of dollars in debt and it’s now turning its sights to the federal government for help. The hospital board voted unanimously yesterday to try to access money usually set aside for even smaller hospitals.

New York schoolteachers and their supporters rallied Monday in front of the New York Department of Education building in Albany.

Gunsmiths do basic cleaning of guns and repairs, but they can also do what Brian MacDougall calls "custom pistol smithing," which is the art of building and refining custom firearms. This is where his true passion lies.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) A coalition of conservation groups say New York state must do more to address the impact of all-terrain vehicles in the Adirondacks.

NEW YORK (AP) The New York City Health Department has ordered all yeshivas in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn to exclude non-vaccinated students from classes during the current measles outbreak.

ALBION, N.Y. (AP) A renewed push across the United States to issue driver's licenses to immigrants in the country illegally resonates with rural workers who say driving is an absolute necessity.

While it seems unlikely that the White House or Treasury will comply with congressional Democrats' request to see President Donald Trump's tax returns this week, a group of New York state lawmakers is trying its own workaround - seeking the president's state tax returns instead.

Home is one of our most basic needs. Some of us love our homes. Others struggle even to have one. Over the last week we’ve been texting with people across the North Country about what they think about their homes, about housing in the North Country, and about what "home" even means.

Gunsmiths do basic cleaning of guns and repairs, but they can also do what Brian MacDougall calls "custom pistol smithing," which is the art of building and refining custom firearms. This is where his true passion lies.

A new exhibit of work by a Washington County artist opened at the Hyde Collection in Glens Falls over the weekend. "A Magical World" includes 23 of Greenwich artist Jacob Houston's paintings.

With the state budget done on time, lawmakers in Albany are looking to clean up all the odds and ends left out. Take the new plastic bag ban. Nearly a dozen exceptions were carved out, for dry cleaning bags and newspaper delivery sleeves. Now a new bill will target one of the biggest exceptions.

SCHOHARIE, N.Y. (AP) A grand jury has indicted the operator of a limousine company in a crash last fall in rural Schoharie that killed 20 people.

David Klepper, Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) New York state lawmakers who delivered a budget on time this past week are turning their attention to thorny debates over legalizing recreational marijuana and renewing New York City's rent regulations.