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An economist who has studied past recessions in New York says this one could be different.

Bill Edmunds, pilot climbs up a ladder to navigate Hapag-Lloyd container ship to Norfolk International Terminals in the Chesapeake Bay.

The Lewiston City Council voted this week to terminate EMS contracts with entities outside of the city limits and also ended an agreement with Potlatch Corporation.

So, where's your bailout?

Wall Street is in line for up to $700 billion in a government rescue. The same can't be said for low- and moderate-income New Yorkers who may have to choose between heat and food this winter, middle-class home owners paying the nation's highest property taxes, and the women and children dependent on a welfare grant that hasn't increased since 1990.

If the door was still open just a crack on these most vexing issues back home, it was slammed shut Friday by Gov. David Paterson. He warned of a potential 'economic blood bath' in the making as Wall Street's crisis becomes a crisis for Albany, which has become addicted to revenues from the financial sector.

A Las Vegas jury found Simpson guilty on all 12 counts in his robbery and kidnapping case.

The Greatest Show on Earth was nothing more than an amusing distraction when it passed through the city Wednesday.

Cammarata, running in the Mid-Island/Brooklyn district, pointed to his two decades in law enforcement and said he would seek a place on the Republican Assembly Conference's Sex Offender Watch Task Force, which ...

Resisting pressure from congressional leaders and the White House, Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., on Friday again voted against an administration-backed plan to bolster the nation's financial markets.

A company planning a $300 million tires-to-energy plant in northwestern Pennsylvania has submitted a revised emissions plan to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.

International Paper today, Oct. 3, announced it will permanently close the Mason corrugated container plant on U.S. 42 in early December, resulting in the loss of 101 jobs.

Georgia-Pacific Corp. will shut down its plywood mill in Gloster in early December, putting 280 people out of work in time for the Christmas season.

Smurfit-Stone Container Corp. opened its second recycling facility in Jacksonville with Advanced Disposal Services Inc.

A former football player at an upstate New York college has been sentenced to a state prison term for raping a woman in his dorm room.

ALBANY - Because of higher construction costs and fewer drivers, the state Thruway Authority is cutting $250 million in planned road projects, including the construction of high-speed E-Z Pass lanes at the ...

Gov. Jim Doyle is urging a U.S. commission to back a Wisconsin paper company's complaint that it has suffered from unfair trade practices by Chinese and German companies.

Paper maker Domtar Corp. has recruited a British packaging executive to be its next CEO.

The weakening economy dealt the mid-valley another blow on Wednesday; International Paper announced plans to shut down one of the containerboard production lines at its Albany mill.

A crystal ball might have come in handy for New York officials hosting a psychic fair in Albany - maybe they would have seen the criticism coming.

The uncertainty engulfing the economy is evident in the quarterly measurement of consumer confidence throughout New York state as reported Wednesday by the Siena Research Institute .

Harding Energy Partners LP bought out its partners in undisclosed acreage of Barnett Shale it acquired, with partners ExxonMobil Corp.