Albany County Executive Daniel P. McCoy has launched a new campaign to help homeless veterans and their families in Albany County.

Doctors and patients are being caught in the crossfire as a health-care and an insurance giant battle.

Charles Casale, M.D., a fellowship-trained gastroenterologist, has joined Albany Medical Center’s Community Division of Gastroenterology, where he will treat patients for a full range of gastrointestinal diseases and disorders.

The race will start at 9 a.m. at the Altamont Elementary School in Grand Street in the village.

Amedore won a second term in the State Senate with 60 percent of the vote against Sara Niccoli, a Democrat making her first run for state office.

As concerns over lead in public water have increased, concerns over lead contamination have gone unnoticed at public and private gun ranges.

Republican Peter Lopez is running unopposed to represent the 102nd Assembly District, which includes the Helderberg Hilltowns of Rensselaerville and Westerlo. The other two Hilltowns, Berne and Knox, are in the 111th District where Democratic incumbent Angelo Santabarbara is again being challenged by Republican Peter Vroman.

Any one of us could lose a job, or fall ill, or suffer an accident — and lose our home. Getting government services can be difficult. Family Promise bridges the gap.

Seeking his third term in the Assembly, Democrat Angelo Santabarbara names some of the accomplishments he’s proudest of: fighting for funds for public schools; improving infrastructure; and working across the aisle with Republican Peter Lopez, who represents the other half of the Hilltowns, on a bill to help people with autism.

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation urges outdoor adventurers to suspend exploration of cave and mine sites that may serve as homes for bat hibernations.