While just one hunter died last year from a shooting incident, four died after falling from tree stands.

ALBANY COUNTY — This week, the Intergovernmental Negotiating Board of the World Health Organization is meeting to work out the final terms of a global pandemic agreement and will then seek ratification of WHO’s 194 member states.

On Wednesday, the state’s labor department announced that regulations for farm laborers overtime pay have been adopted.

Over the course of a decade, farm workers statewide will see the threshold for overtime pay lowered until it reaches 40 hours a week, down from the current 60.

The new anti-hate policy, said Nathan Sabourin, would “touch on virtually every aspect of the district.” He went on, “It is not going to be simply aspirational. It is going to have, for lack of a better term, teeth, and guidance. And it’ll be not just a policy, it will be a regulation within the district.”

The state comptroller’s Feb. 17 analysis shows sales-tax collections for Albany County increasing by 11.6 percent from January 2022 to January 2023 — going from $27.3 million to $30.55 million. Sales-tax levels still exceed pre-pandemic amounts

“The vast majority of dogs are licensed, they have chips … they’re found,” said Supervisor Peter Barber of strays in Guilderland. “Again, we are one of the few towns locally that actually has an animal shelter with two professional animal-control officers and so we do shelter most of our animals but they find their way back home within the five-day period.”

ALBANY COUNTY — Starting on Monday, March 6, trees are being removed to prepare for replacing the bridge on the Albany County Helderberg-Hudson Rail Trail.

The governor’s plan allocates $1.5 million for Guilderland’s pre-kindergarten program next year but the district will likely be unable to use all of those funds since it has no space for pre-K classes in its own schools and local providers lack capacity — both space and staff — as well.

A Hispanic man in his 50s was “found unresponsive” Saturday morning in the café court at Crossgates Mall, and later declared dead, according to a release from the Guilderland Police.

“There is no indication of foul play, and the death does not appear to be suspicious at this time,” the release, issued just after noon, said.

DELMAR — Jill Rifkin is a sort of Robin Hood for musical instruments.

She collects them from often well-off kids who don’t use them and redistributes them to children who can’t afford them.

Rifkin was hooked, she says, by a little boy from the Caribbean.