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Cory Ash would never have stolen a car for the usual reasons — to keep it or sell it,  said his close friend Brianna Jeffers of Voorheesville.

Kinder Morgan announced on Wednesday that it indefinitely suspended its proposed Northeast Energy Direct pipeline, a project that was inspiring resistance in Albany County as well as elsewhere in the seven states it would have crossed to deliver fracked gas from Pennsylvania to New England. The company said current market forces weighed on the decision.

Four of the town board’s five members, a supermajority, would have to support the allowance.

Making the Crime Victim and Sexual Violence Center part of the county's charter will keep it safe from budget cuts into the future, says Legislator Bryan Clenahan. On Monday, the full legislature agreed with him. Now it's up to County Executive Daniel McCoy to sign or veto the legislation. 

ALBANY COUNTY —Hilltown residents spoke to the Albany County Legislature Monday night, asking that towers proposed by the sheriff not be built in places that would mar important Helderberg views.

An elderly woman crossed over the double yellow line on Route 155 Sunday, causing a two-car crash that sent both her and the other driver to Albany Med. The other driver was Joseph Cotazino, 61, a well-known figure in Voorheesville, who is the leader of the Orchard Park Neighborhood Association, which is very active in local charity work. Gladys Chamberlain, 78, also of Voorheesville, may have had a medical event before crashing head-on into Cotazino's vehicle, say officials from the sheriff's office. The cause of the crash is under investigation.

If the project does not go in, board members pointed out, the land can revert to its original business zoning.