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QUEENSBURY — Alexander M. West, the Lake George man who police said was piloting the boat that struck another boat Monday night on Lake George, killing an 8-year-old girl and injuring her mother, was arrested Friday morning in connection with…

KINGSBURY  The latest estimate for the completion of the new Town Hall, which will allow Hudson River Music Hall to buy the current building and begin rehabilitating the Strand Theater, is now “sometime in March.”

STONY CREEK | Something is a little fishy in this quiet town of about 700, with reports of Sasquatch sightings; snobbish city folks being dragged away; and art inspiring Van Gogh-esque self-mutilation.

GREENWICH | When Devin Bulger, program director of Comfort Food Community, summed up the food pantry’s first full year of operation, he didn’t need many words, just the numbers.

It’s only a few miles from Glens Falls City Hall to the Warren County Municipal Center, but from the difficulty that each municipality’s elected leaders have in communicating with the other’s, you’d think they were separated by 10 miles of…

For David Krogmann of Glens Falls, the memories of the first Super Bowl are mixed in with the memories of the hectic times of the late 1960s.

LAKE GEORGE  There was no snow and no ice, but that has never stopped a dedicated group of outhouse racers.

It doesn’t matter if a referee at a high school game — any game — makes a call that is wrong.

A Queensbury man who alleges he was targeted by local police officers who included his ex-wife’s boyfriend has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against two local police agencies, a prosecutor’s office and two police officers, accusing them of malicious…

When we were vetting candidates for local election last fall, we neglected to ask one important question: Will you act like an adult if elected?

No one needs snowshoes or insulated bib overalls this time around.

The state is moving ahead with allowing research on growing hemp, and that has caught the attention of Jackson businessman Ted Berndt, Hartford Supervisor Dana Haff and Assemblywoman Carrie Woerner, D-Round Lake.

QUEENSBURY | The community is raising money for Queensbury High School graduate Otto Miller, who became paralyzed from the chest down after falling off a roof while shoveling snow.

School districts around the area will see new wireless systems and networks, security cameras and computers and other technology in the coming years, because of the state’s Smart Schools bond.

Regardless of whether the groundhog sees his shadow, Glens Falls Food Co-Op customers won’t have to wait any longer to resume buying groceries.

QUEENSBURY | “Hacksaw” Jim Duggan has always brought a certain sense of humor to his role as a professional wrestler for the past three decades.

Just as we’re all starting to battle cabin fever, venues across the region respond, giving us reason to bundle up and leave the confines of our cozy homes.

WARRENSBURG | When the Compassionate Care Act was signed into law in New York in 2014, Catherine LaFond-Evans was hopeful medical marijuana could ease some of her daughter's pain caused by mitochondrial disease.

The minimum wage is generally acknowledged to be a good thing, and like any good thing, you can have too much of it.

Our immediate reaction to a suggestion from Washington County District Attorney Tony Jordan that specialized veterans courts are needed locally is that such courts are unnecessary, but a little research convinced us of the opposite.

GLENS FALLS  The screens at a longtime downtown restaurant-and-movie business will be lit again next week, after a major renovation by its new owners.

Meteorologists knew that unprecedented amounts of rain were falling around the state during Tropical Storm Irene in 2011. But because of a lack of data caused by a lack of reporting stations, exactly how bad it was took a day…

GLENS FALLS | SheetLabels.com is growing again, thanks to a $1.25 million investment in a new roll-label printing system.

FORT EDWARD | International companies are now studying Fort Edward.

If committing crimes were part of the regular duties of New York state elected officials, then it would make sense to argue, as Gov. Andrew Cuomo has, that they should be allowed to use campaign funds to pay defense lawyers.

GLENS FALLS | Molly Congdon has seen the bright lights of Broadway, but that doesn’t beat the corner of Montcalm and Mission streets in her hometown.

HUDSON FALLS | When the students at Hudson Falls Intermediate School arrived to start their day on Monday, they received a hero’s welcome through a “kindness tunnel.”

GLENS FALLS | Line by line, the structure formed, at first just a geometric shape, as the machine hummed away.

If the leadership in the New York Legislature was smart — and that is seriously open to debate at the moment — it would immediately pass the reforms suggested by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to subject the Legislature to the state’s…

PLATTSBURGH | When Lawrence Gooley heard news reports about David Sweat and Richard Matt being the only men to escape Clinton Correctional Facility, he got increasingly annoyed.

GLENS FALLS | Locally produced Just Water is among the brands of water charitable organizations are distributing in Flint, Michigan where lead and other contaminants have polluted the public drinking water supply.

SOUTH GLENS FALLS | South High Marathon Dance organizers are hoping the March 4 and 5 event will top last year’s fundraising record of $621,680 to benefit the 43 recipients of the money announced this week.

FORT EDWARD  General Electric’s plant in Fort Edward is so busy that the company has given up trying to close it on time.

Kevin Geraghty, the Warrensburg supervisor who is also the chairman of the Warren County Board of Supervisors, said he wanted to make it clear why he wanted to return as chairman for a third year.

WARRENSBURG  Heather LaSalvia showed the Warrensburg seventh-grade students a picture of the Newport cigarettes logo.

QUEENSBURY  Adirondack Folk School in Lake Luzerne has raised enough money through an emergency appeal to keep the school open through the summer.

The creation of a recreation trail, running from Aviation Road to Peggy Ann Road on Glens Falls watershed land in Queensbury, is not as simple an undertaking as one would hope, considering this is already public land.

According to data going back more than a century, Lake George is often buttoned up by the third week of January.

GLENS FALLS | The words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. echoed for hours Sunday afternoon during the Glens Falls NAACP’s 21st annual celebration of the birth of the civil rights leader.

GLENS FALLS | Davidson Brothers Brewpub employees got their first paychecks with “commissions” rather than tips Thursday — and none of them walked out in disgust.

It took years for the Civic Center to sink into a deep hole of debt and deficit spending, and it will take years for it to get winched out.

LAKE LUZERNE | To prepare for an all-night dance marathon, Hadley-Luzerne students didn’t nap, didn’t carb-up and didn’t gulp down caffeine.

CAMBRIDGE | A local man died Friday night when his car crashed and burst into flames in Cambridge, Cambridge Police Chief George Bell said.

GLENS FALLS  When Jonathan Canning starts work at The Hyde Collection in February, he’s stepping into a role created nearly 80 years ago, when Charlotte Pruyn Hyde hired the museum’s first curator.

GLENS FALLS  A year ago, with the memory of the deaths of Eric Garner, Michael Brown and Tamir Rice still fresh, there was an urgency to the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration.

The political ping-pong continued this week in Albany.

HEBRON | One person suffered minor burns and a family of three was homeless as fire destroyed a home on Wood Way on Thursday afternoon.