SCHENECTADY — Schenectady City Councilman Carl Williams filed an ethics complaint against fellow Councilman John Polimeni on Friday afternoon, charging that Polimeni has not resided in Schenectady since purchasing a home in Rotterdam in the spring. Williams has submitted a signed mortgage deed with the Homestead Funding Corp. from the county clerk’s office dated March
SALT LAKE CITY — Health experts worldwide are watching a coronavirus subvariant, JN.1, because it's spreading fast throughout the world. The World Health Organization said that it accounted for just 3% of COVID-19 cases early in November, but was more than a quarter of cases (27.1%) a month later, worldwide. WHO warns that the virus
DETROIT — Donald Trump pressured two election officials not to certify 2020 vote totals in a key Michigan county, according to a recording of a post-election phone call disclosed in a new report by The Detroit News. The former president's 2024 campaign neither confirmed nor denied the recording's legitimacy, insisting in a statement that all
SCHENECTADY — Ally Crowley-Duncan, better known as Ally the Piper — the popular and auburn-maned bagpiper based in Schenectady, is set to receive a prestigious New York State Assembly Citation from Assemblyman Angelo Santabarbara at 4 p.m. Wednesday. Crowley-Duncan has amassed large followings on social media with her bagpiping, including 1.8 million followers on TikTok. Santabarbara, D-Rotterdam
NEW YORK (WKBW) — New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced Thursday that a team of New York State Department of Environmental Conservation forest rangers is deploying to assist with the wildfire response in eastern Canada. The team of forest rangers will join firefighters from New Hampshire and Maine in Quebec. The wildfires have caused several
SCHENECTADY — Two men have been charged in connection to the fatal Tuesday night shooting of a 21-year-old Schenectady man in the city's Hamilton Hill neighborhood. Police arrested Jevoun Drake, 18, of Schenectady and Jose Amey, 18, of Troy, Wednesday afternoon. Usman Pirzada was shot at approximately 8:49 p.m. Tuesday. Police responded to the area
LAS VEGAS — Police officers who responded to a deadly shooting inside the business school at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas mistook the gunman for a bystander and urged him to get out of the building amid the frantic search for the suspect and victims, according to body camera footage and police accounts. With
PRAGUE — A lone gunman opened fire Thursday in a university building in downtown Prague, killing at least 14 people and injuring more than 20 in the Czech Republic's worst mass shooting, police and the city's rescue service said. The bloodshed took place in the philosophy department building of Charles University, where the shooter was
SCHENECTADY — The third time's the charm for the Schenectady budget, as the City Council passed a $109 million 2024 spending plan on Thursday that Schenectady Mayor Gary McCarthy immediately signed, ending the city’s three-month budget saga. After vetoing the council’s first two budgets this fall, McCarthy said on Thursday that he would sign the
SCHENECTADY — The Schenectady Planning Commission gave final approval Wednesday to a proposed hockey arena at Mohawk Harbor that will double as an event center. Maxon Alco Holdings, LLC, a subsidiary of the Galesi Group, cleared the last hurdle necessary to break ground on the 97,000-square-foot arena which is estimated to cost upwards of $50 million after
