PLATTSBURGH — New York 21st Congressional District candidate Ezra Watson made his first campaign stop in Plattsburgh Saturday. “If you choose to give me the honor of your vote, I’ll go to work every day fighting to improve your lives, all of your lives, so please join me on the path to ...

The Franklin County Board of Elections is hosting a voter registration day in Tupper Lake and Saranac Lake ahead of the Oct. 8 deadline to register before Election Day on Nov. 2. Franklin County Republican Election Commissioner Tracy Sparks, who lives in Tupper Lake, plans to be in both ...

WASHINGTON — House Democrats began pushing plans for providing paid family and medical leave, easing climate change and bolstering education through House committees Thursday as they battled Republicans and among themselves over President Joe Biden’s $3.5 trillion vision for reshaping ...

ALBANY (AP) — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Wednesday that she is appointing Kathryn Garcia, the former New York City sanitation commissioner and runner-up in the city’s Democratic mayoral primary, as director of state operations and Neysa Alsina, a chief counsel to the New York ...

WILTON — The Saratoga County GOP canceled a voter rally scheduled for Wednesday, which was to feature an appearance by anti-Muslim activist Scott Presler. Saratoga County Republican Chairman Carl Zeilman said in a statement the event was canceled because a staffer with Rise PAC, one of the ...

ALBANY — Kathy Hochul became the first female governor of New York on Tuesday and in her first hours on the job sought to bring a sense of urgency to tackling big problems that went unaddressed during Andrew Cuomo’s distracted final months in office. In an afternoon speech in which she ...