Schenectady News

The Schenectady Police Department's Special Investigative Unit, Direct Patrol Unit, and the New York State Police conducted a prostitution detail resulting in the arrests of: 31-year-old Jared Ball of Schenectady, 58-year-old Li Ju of New York City, both charged with Patronize Prostitution; 25-year-old Charlotte Ashby of Schenectady, 43-year-old ... (more)

Hoping to make a meaningful contribution to a high-potential area? Interested in buying a private home for the price of an apartment? Looking for a less stressful life that has the flavor of an exotic vacation? A new wave of English-speaking Olim is heading to Israel's periphery and enjoying a genuinely southern welcome.

By Bill Buell Gazette Reporter Six homes, two gardens and the building and grounds of the First Unitarian Society of Schenectady will be on display Saturday and Sunday as the GE Realty Plot House and Garden Tour resumes for the first time since 2009.

Through July 27, the Coral Gables, Fla.-based Turbana is using in-store display units and stickers to promote Produce for Kids' spring campaign in produce aisles at the Schenectady, N.Y.-based Price Chopper stores.

The New York Lottery presented the winner, Jean Reilly of Queensbury, with a $1 million prize from a recent Sweet Million drawing in Schenectady Monday morning.

The volunteers who run the historic Glove Theatre have had their share of ups and downs in recent years, but this week, they have two good reasons to pat themselves on the back.

By Bob Weiner Gazette Reporter On a day when Schenectady Municipal Golf Course played about as tough as it possibly could, Chad Stoffer was the curve buster.

Half the members of the Mekeel Christian Academy Class of 2013 received a brick as they walked up to the alter of First Presbyterian Church in Schenectady, dressed in their white and blue caps and gowns.

ALBANY, N.Y. Mayor Jerry Jennings joined City of Albany officials Saturday for the 9th Annual Juneteenth Celebration in Washington Park.

SCHENECTADY, N.Y. A local graduate student will appear on the July cover of Good Housekeeping Magazine to share her success story for overcoming obesity.

ALBANY, N.Y. One man is dead and another is being treated at a hospital after they fell while carrying a piece of furniture.

Police in Utica are asking the public for help finding a 9-month-old boy missing for more than two weeks.

Elizabeth Vanderhoef, 23, of Niskayuna, outside Union Graduate College in Schenectady, NY, Friday June 14, 2013.

If you still need to license your dog in Schenectady, the city clerk's office is making it easy for you.

If you still need to license your dog in Schenectady, the city clerk's office is making it easy for you.

By Justin Mason Gazette Reporter Compensating for the soon-to-be shuttered Schenectady Free Health Clinic won't be easy, but it's a task the city's hospital network and health center believe they can accomplish with help from the city's various human service agencies.

Rene LaSpina has been named president and general manager of WIVB-WNLO-TV Buffalo, LIN Media's duopoly in DMA No.

Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp and Dave Matthews are set to headline Farm Aid 2013 at Saratoga Performing Arts Center this September 21st! Farm Aid, an all-day music and food festival, announced Friday that its annual benefit concert will return to the northeast and take place at SPAC on Saturday, Sept.

Betsy Meyer, a resident of North Street in Schenectady's Stockade neighborhood watches the level of the Mohawk River in Riverside Park.

The full house at the Albany Roundtable meeting in May to hear Jeff Speck , a city planner and author of "Walkable City," was a good sign of a growing interest in the subject of his book.