Apple, Horton, and Salerno all want to be sheriff

More students graduate, but half may not be ready for college

ALBANY COUNTY — County Executive Michael Breslin signed the legislature’s redistricting map, which changes the lines of the county’s 39 voting districts to reflect population changes in the 2010 census.

Will new map of legislative districts become law?

ALBANY COUNTY — Hilltowners stormed the flatlands on Tuesday to tell the county re-districting committee not to split them up.

North Bethlehem Fire District puts up $265K bond for land purchase

NORTH BETHLEHEM — A controversial $315,000 bond vote for the North Bethlehem Fire District this month ended in a tie after one vote had to be thrown out.

Cutting boughs so that deer may browse is a way to help sustain them in winter when snow is deep.

TSO plays high-tech holiday music with heart

ALBANY — As a record storm bore down on Albany the day after Christmas, the faithful filled the Times Union Center for their yearly dose of Trans-Siberian Orchestra.

ALBANY COUNTY — The joy of Christmas is universal, but the sermons to celebrate it are as varied as the preachers who give them.

A day after learning there will be no state funding for the Empire State Games in 2011, those involved in both the summer and winter Olympic-style competitions are scrambling to salvage what they can.