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ALBANY - New York's legislative primaries, usually not terribly exciting, will be different Tuesday.

One truism in government is the best way to get rid of an idea is to study it to death.

The request caught dairy farmer Brian Ziehm off guard: Would he devote an acre of his fields near the Vermont line this fall to grow stinkweed? "It was like, What the heck? I've been trying to get rid of these ...

When Rudy Giuliani addresses the Republican National Convention as expected Wednesday night, it might be his last big moment in the political spotlight.

John E. Kelly III, IBM's director of research, gave a reality check to the upstate business community Friday.

ALBANY Albany County District Attorney P. David Soares Friday announced that Aaron Dare of Albany was sentenced to one to three years in prison following his April guilty plea to one count of offering a false ...

Union backs off strike, accepts contract for Potlatch Corp. employees in Lewiston Lewiston Tribune - http://www.lmtribune.com LEWISTON - Hundreds of Potlatch Corp.

A New York woman accused of attempting to have a sexual encounter with a 15-year-old boy in an Eau Claire hotel will spend seven months in jail and seven years on probation.

By design, billboards are intended to attract attention, but the billboards along a stretch of Route 9 in the town of Wilton are getting noticed for all the wrong reasons.

ALBANY - The state Commission on Property Tax Relief announced today that it has scheduled six hearings across New York to delve into the high property-tax problem.

Five people were sent to local hospitals for treatment after a vehicle drove into the U.S. Post Office on North Battlefield Boulevard, near Sam's Circle this afternoon, said Capt.

"Authorities say a single-engine plane from Canada has made an emergency landing on highway in New York state.

Smurfit-Stone Container Corp. was up 30% yesterday on news that its competitor International Paper pushed through a hike in containerboard prices as of October 1. The new prices, which aren't specified, could ...

State utility regulators are meeting in Albany to decide whether to give the global energy company Iberdrola the go-ahead to buy Energy East.

A house fire on 22nd Street in the South Norfolk section of Chesapeake has displaced a family of five.

MeadWestvaco Corp. said today it sold its Specialty Papers Cedar Mill to Potsdam Specialty Paper, Inc.

The request caught dairy farmer Brian Ziehm off guard: Would he devote an acre of his fields near the Vermont line this fall to grow stinkweed?

'It was like, 'What the heck? I've been trying to get rid of these things for 30 years. Now you want me to plant them?''

But Ziehm happily agreed to grow the hardy weed called field pennycress _ a.k.a. stinkweed _ to help test a potential new source of fuel for the booming biodiesel market. A handful of fields around upstate New York will be planted with pennycress later this month under the pilot program launched by an Albany-based biodiesel company, Innovation Fuels Inc.

Macy's Retail Holdings Inc. and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency have agreed to a settlement over hazardous waste management violations at Macy's stores in Albany and Garden City, N.Y. EPA alleged in ...

Corporate challengers to the $32-billion restructuring plan for the asset-backed commercial paper market have filed their arguments with the Supreme Court of Canada, arguing the high court needs to hear the ...

International Paper has completed the purchase of the assets of Weyerhaeuser's Containerboard, Packaging and Recycling business for approximately $6 billion in cash, subject to post-closing adjustments.