The Albany Common Council is set to consider a legislative amendment that would ease the city's affordable housing requirements for new construction.

Public radio stations Radio Catskill and WIOX are merging. They will share programming and WIOX will have access to NPR national shows.

A new report shows the Hudson Valley continues to lose population, despite a wave of new residents following the COVID-19 pandemic.

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has released management recommendations for visitor use in the Adirondack High Peaks and the Catskills.

(Airs 04/03/26 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: A Republican running in New York's 21st Congressional District is under scrutiny for how he’s collecting ‘petition signatures’ to get on the ballot, the state budget is officially late, we’ll talk with Yancey Roy, Albany Bureau chief for Newsday on what’s holding up negotiations, and how organizations in one community are trying to make it easier to get a job with a criminal record.

(Airs 04/03/26 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: A Republican running in New York's 21st Congressional District is under scrutiny for how he’s collecting ‘petition signatures’ to get on the ballot, the state budget is officially late, we’ll talk with Yancey Roy, Albany Bureau chief for Newsday on what’s holding up negotiations, and how organizations in one community are trying to make it easier to get a job with a criminal record.

Robert Buskey was arrested in April 2024 after prosecutors say the 35-year-old man locked his daughter alone in a room without sustenance.

Forty years after he began his academic career at Hudson Valley Community College, Omar Yaghi returned to the campus to be honored as a 2025 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry.

Having a criminal record can make it hard to find a job. But, some Capital Region organizations and employers are hoping to change that.

(Airs 04/02/26 @ 3 p.m.) WAMC’s David Guistina in conversation with Yancey Roy, Albany Bureau Chief for Newsday, about why the New York state budget is late again, negotiations over taxing the rich, sweetening state pensions, changing the climate law, and much more.