GUILDERLAND — Historian Bruce Dearstyne has just published a book he hopes will be judged.

The 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline will connect people experiencing a mental-health or substance-use crisis to a trained counselor who can address their immediate needs and help connect them to ongoing care.

The current summer season has not seen the drastic dip of the past two summers on new cases nor on hospitalizations.

The Zero Energy Nano building, known as ZEN, is a “smart” building on the SUNY Poly campus that will soon have a “digital twin” for its building-management and energy-management systems.

After allowing sparklers in 2016, the Albany County Legislature reversed itself in September 2020. 

Before an expected winter surge of the coronavirus, a committee of experts at the Food and Drug Administration urged on Tuesday that booster shots be geared to combat subvariants of Omicron.

ALBANY COUNTY — Several local municipalities were listed among the 75 statewide that received $178.8 million in funds to improve transportation.
Among the municipalities in the Capital Region, receiving $27.2 million, are:

ALBANY COUNTY — Albany County is expanding its Explorer programs — typically to involve youth in police work — to include firefighting and emergency medical services as well.

Shouldn’t we move to a new aesthetic? In the short term, we could stop fertilizing with harmful chemicals; we could stop watering with a resource that could best be used elsewhere; and we could mow less, letting the natural plants return to our yards. And we could leave our grass clippings where they fall to help stem climate change.

Americans are more likely now than at any point over the past year and a half to say their lives are completely back to pre-pandemic normalcy, according to a recent Gallup poll.