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Governor Hochul announces conceptual framework for FY2026 state budget deal
Governor Kathy Hochul today announced an agreement has been reached with legislative leaders on key priorities in the Fiscal Year 2026 New York State Budget. Highlights of the Fiscal Year 2026 Budget include: A $1 billion tax cut for middle-class and low-income New Yorkers, bringing tax rates to their lowest levels in nearly 70 years. […]
Posted: April 29th, 2025 under Political News, State Government News.
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‘These guys work six 12-hour days’: VT dairy farms anxious after migrant workers arrested
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Posted: April 25th, 2025 under Agricultural News, Business News, Law Enforcement News, Peru/Regional History, Political News, Regional NY-VT News.
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Albany Republican Headquarters vandalized with swastikas
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Posted: April 18th, 2025 under Law Enforcement News, Political News, Upstate New York.
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Stefanik reintroduces by-partisan legislation to designate Plattsburgh Airport as a Port of Entry
April 17, 2025 – Elise Stefanik News Release While Plattsburgh International Airport qualifies as a port of entry under CBP’s criteria, it has not received this designation, which has resulted in increased costs for the airport and travelers flying in and out. Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Elise Stefanik reintroduced the bipartisan Border Airport Fairness Act […]
Posted: April 17th, 2025 under Adirondack Region News, Border News, Business News, Congressional News, Law Enforcement News, Northern NY News, Political News, Regional NY-VT News.
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March Champlain car crossings down by 31% compared to last year, truck crossings up 12%
North country Chamber Of Coommerce Press Release “We now have the border crossing numbers for Champlain for March and, as anticipated, car crossings were down 31% compared with March 2024,” reports Garry Douglas, President of the North Country Chamber of Commerce. “Visitation was down 16% in February but we knew March was the month that […]
Posted: April 17th, 2025 under Border News, Business News, National History, National News, Northern NY News, Political News.
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NY-21 Rep. Elise Stefanik reportedly eyeing run for governor of New York
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Posted: April 16th, 2025 under Community Events, National News, Northern NY News, Political News, State Government News, Statewide News, Upstate New York.
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SUNY chancellor worries about chilling effect after Plattsburgh student set for deportation
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Posted: April 16th, 2025 under Education News, Law Enforcement News, National News, Northern NY News, Political News, Regional NY-VT News.
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SUNY Plattsburgh student to be deported after student visa revoked
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Posted: April 15th, 2025 under Education News, Law Enforcement News, National History, Political News.
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Should I stay or go? Immigrants across U.S. consider self-deportation
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Posted: April 15th, 2025 under Business News, Law Enforcement News, National News, Northern NY News, Political News.
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An Open Secret’: Sackets Harbor ICE Raid Shows the ‘Reality’ of New York Dairy Country
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Posted: April 14th, 2025 under Agricultural News, Business News, General News, National News, Northern NY News, Peru/Regional History, Political News, Social Issues.
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Dairy farmer Blake Gendebien claims $3M fundraising haul, continues actively campaigning for NY-21
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Posted: April 12th, 2025 under Adirondack Region News, Agricultural News, Congressional News, Northern NY News, Political News.
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Border czar’s town stood up for 3 kids detained by ICE — and won
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Posted: April 11th, 2025 under Community Events, Law Enforcement News, National History, National News, Northern NY News, Peru/Regional History, Political News.
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Assemblyman Billy Jones: Governor and DOCCS Need to Act Urgently on Staffing Issues
Billy Jones Press Release 4/10/25 – It has been one month since over 2,000 correction officers were terminated, and I have been working diligently to get the officers who want to return to work back into their respective facilities. Today, the officers in these facilities are faced with almost daily 12 hour or longer shifts, […]
Posted: April 11th, 2025 under General News, Law Enforcement News, Northern NY News, Political News, State Government News, State Legislator News.
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Stec, Gray announce legislation allowing 2,000 fired COs to return to work
Senator Dan Stec (R, C-Queensbury) and Assemblyman Scott Gray (R-Watertown) announced legislation permitting the reinstatement of 2,000 correction officers fired by Governor Hochul in the aftermath of the CO strikes for prison safety measures. Senate Bill S.7310 would grant a grace period for officers terminated by the governor to return to work without retribution. […]
Posted: April 10th, 2025 under Adirondack Region News, Law Enforcement News, Northern NY News, Political News, State Government News, State Legislator News, Statewide News.
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Stefanik appointed to key leadership positions
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Posted: April 10th, 2025 under Congressional News, Northern NY News, Political News, Upstate New York.
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North County orgs concerned over gutting of federal museum and library agency
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Posted: April 10th, 2025 under Education News, National News, Political News.
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ICE arrests over 100 people in Upstate NY
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Posted: April 10th, 2025 under Law Enforcement News, National News, Political News, Upstate New York.
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Feds freeze more than $1 billion in funding for Cornell University
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Posted: April 10th, 2025 under Education News, National History, National News, Peru/Regional History, Political News.
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President Trump is dismantling the Dept. of Education. What does that mean for the North Country?
” “But the biggest pots of federal funding are to support children with physical and learning disabilities and for rural and/or low-income schools. The North Country has a lot of those.” Click here for the NCPR story
Posted: April 9th, 2025 under Adirondack Region News, Congressional News, Education News, Northern NY News, Peru/Regional History, Political News.
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NY lawmakers take aim at Musk: Bill could claw back Tesla incentives
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Posted: April 9th, 2025 under Business News, National News, Political News, Upstate New York.
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Sackets Harbor family detained by ICE is returning home to the North Country
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Posted: April 7th, 2025 under Agricultural News, Border News, Business News, Law Enforcement News, National History, Northern NY News, Political News, State Government News.
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Final structural beam placed in Buffalo Bills’ new stadium: Here’s the latest
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Posted: April 4th, 2025 under Business News, General News, Political News, Sports News, Upstate New York.
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North Country dairy farms are getting caught up in Trump’s immigration enforcement
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Posted: April 3rd, 2025 under Adirondack Region News, Agricultural News, Border News, Business News, Law Enforcement News, National History, National News, Northern NY News, Political News, Upstate New York.
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125 beds added to state-operated psychiatric centers
Governor Kathy Hochul today announced that 125 new beds have opened at state-operated psychiatric centers over the past four months, boosting New York’s capacity to provide intermediate-level care to individuals living with mental illness. Opened statewide since December 1, 2024, the new beds represent more than a third of the capacity added at state psychiatric […]
Posted: April 3rd, 2025 under Heathcare News, Political News, State Government News, Statewide News.
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Concerns grow over impact of federal cuts on seniors in Northern New York
40% of HHS staff at the Administration for Community Living, including the regional representative for New York State Click here for the MYNBC5 story
Posted: April 3rd, 2025 under Heathcare News, Northern NY News, Political News.
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