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Sajina Shrestha/WAMCA Schenectady City School District elementary school is facing scrutiny after a mother made a Facebook post accusing the school of inaction after she was sent a photo of a school staff member putting a foot on her child’s back. Ashley Rivera, the mother, says a paraprofessional in her son’s school sent her the photo almost two weeks after the incident occurred. -
Jesse Taylor/WAMCCapital Region lawmakers and protesters are condemning Immigration and Customs Enforcement after one of its officers shot and killed a 37-year-old Minneapolis mother Wednesday. Protesters and officials demonstrated outside of the James T. Foley Courthouse in Albany Thursday.
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After former Council President Marion Porterfield lost her reelection bid in November, the council has been unable to come to consensus on a new president -
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation says it is monitoring a Wednesday morning propane leak at a plastics manufacturing facility in the Town of Petersburgh. -
The city of Saratoga Springs has signed an agreement with the New York state attorney general’s office to resolve complaints that city police and officials retaliated against Black Lives Matter protesters -
For the first time, men will now have the opportunity to run in the long-running women’s-only race virtually. -
Cigarette smokers across New York vow to quit every new year. One Latham man overcame his addiction with the help of a state program. -
WAMC's David Guistina in conversation with Mike Goodwin, News Editor at The Times Union, about Saratoga Springs officials gearing up to settle an agreement with New York state for violating the constitutional rights of demonstrators. -
Following years of national turbulence over allegations of child sex abuse and disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, one scout camp in the southern Adirondacks is bouncing back as regional enrollment ticks up. -
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With temperatures expected to be in the mid to low teens in Schenectady Saturday night, one man is planning to spend the night outside of City Hall to bring attention to the city’s unhoused population. -
In Kingston, tenants say they fear eviction amid turmoil at City Hall that threatens local rent-stabilization policies.
