Albany News

A fast-moving fire tore through a business on Butternut Street in Warsaw. It happened at the Warren's Carpet Cleaning warehouse just before 3 p.m. Wednesday afternoon.

Baking, frying, roasting, grilling - the possibilities for cooking chicken are pretty much limitless.

A New York man who allegedly wanted to kill President Obama and apparently blamed him for the recent Boston bombings has been arrested for trying to build and detonate a weapon of mass destruction.

Michael-Louis Smith has come a long way from when he was doing landscaping jobs as a Saratoga County teenager.

It was organized entirely by the students who say they are primarily trying to save two teaching positions that are being eliminated.

The FBI in Albany has charged a General Electric employee and his co-conspirator after they uncovered an alleged terrorist plot to to create a radiation emitting device to kill targeted people.

An accident has occurred on Route 7 in Colonie near the Miller Road overpass Wednesday morning, shutting down portions of the road.

The city of Albany is stepping up efforts to slow down traffic on South Pearl Street after 7-year-old Qazir Sutherland was struck by a car over the weekend, later dying of his injuries .

A group of public officials is on the verge of recommending what should be done about the changing parent-child relationship between the University at Albany and the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering.

The first mode was seen in a press conference hosted by the League of Women Voters, Common Cause and the New York Public Interest Research Group that featured what might be called "Good-Government Group Researchers' Greatest Hits": a reprise of recent data showing the disproportionate power of money in state politics and Lear Jet-sized donor ... (more)

An Albany school custodian is being honored for jumping into action earlier this month, saving a first grader who was choking.

The elimination of $90 million in funding for disabled programs from the budget in March has been reversed by rare unanimous action in a divided Albany.

Preview of the new Honest Weight Food Co-op at 100 Watervliet Ave. on Monday, June 17, 2013 in Albany, N.Y. Workers are busy making recipes in the kitchen at the new Honest Weight Food Co-op at 100 Watervliet Ave. on Monday, June 17, 2013 in Albany, N.Y. The soft opening is Wednesday.

Albany County District Attorney David Soares talks about his reelection campaign, on Tuesday May 15, 2012 in Albany, NY.

Sommet once had naming rights at Nashville's Arena, and was raided by the FBI back in 2010.

State police are seeking the public's help in finding the person or persons who deflated the tires on 20 to 30 school buses parked at an upstate New York garage.

Brandon Burritt, 30, of Watervliet, was arraigned on one count of felony Murder in the second-degree.

New York lawmakers are pushing Amtrak to add baggage cars to its passenger trains that would be capable of carrying bicycles.

A few thousand opponents of hydraulic fracturing for natural gas rallied on the steps of the state Capitol Monday - and a new public-opinion poll suggests they're gaining traction.

Albany police are attempting to identify the pictured suspect in reference to a burglary that occurred on June 9, 2013 in the area of Central Avenue and Manning Boulevard.