A drunk-driving conviction in the last decade means a steeper penalty for the 30-year-old.

The children who are victimized should feel no shame. The shame is on us if we don’t work to combat it.

Master Gardener Denise Maurer turns found items into garden art, and teaches others to do the same.

Inalienable rights belong to human beings, not corporations. Look to reliable news sources to find out what is hype, what is true, and what is out-and-out falsehood.

GUILDERLAND — John Hodgson has made a wooden box topped with a sankofa, a traditional African symbol meaning “to return for what was left behind.”

VOORHEESVILLE — The Albany County Rural Housing Alliance Inc. has been awarded $360,000 in grant funds to help first-time homebuyers with mortgage down payment and closing costs.

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.

GALLUPVILLE — Howard M. “Skip” Skinner, a lifetime firefighter and a member of The Old Men of the Mountain, died after a long illness on Wednesday, April 6, 2016, at Ellis Hospital. He was 77.