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If you or someone you know loves chocolate, get on board -  this festival is a chocolate-lover's dream and for the 8th consecutive year, it's coming back to the Capital Region this February.  Merriam-Webster defines a chocoholic as "a person who craves or compulsively consumes chocolate" which may describe all of us at some point in our lives. ...

Summer will be here before you know which means great Country concerts at our local county fairs - and we've got our first big show to tell you about!

One of the best ways to travel across New York state or into New York City is by train on Amtrak. I have always found it so relaxing and efficient to travel to Buffalo by train and since there are so many renovations being done to the New York State Thruway rest areas, it's the best way to travel

Downtown Albany is getting a new pizzeria that is replacing a former one. But the new pizza place is completely different from what was once there. The owners say that they are taking a neighborhood pizzeria to the next level while keeping it affordable.

A developing storm could bring our first big snow of winter later next week.

How awful is this? I can't lie -  it bummed me out when I read about it on Saturday morning. Remember that bear in Albany - seen by many in late May making its way around Washington Park? He set up shop high in a tree a few hundred yards from my house, and I was one of the many who spent a few hours watching and waiting for him to come down. Am...

Even though there was no grand prize winner in last night's Mega Millions drawing, someone in the Capital Region is waking up a little bit richer this morning. There were two second-place tickets sold in New York state and one in the Capital Region.

7 Snow Blowers...20 Warrants...and a Partridge in a Pear Tree! The Schenectady PD is all too familiar with a man arrested recently and accused of stealing as many as seven snowblowers from Home Depot and Lowes during a month-long spree. According to a report from News 10 ABC, police say that 35-year-old Bryan Pallone did his dirty work over a one-month period of time beginning on November 12th and

I texted my sister, brother-in-law, and nephew after Thursday's promising update on Damar Hamlin. They’re all big Bills fans and I thought the news was timely and might brighten up their day. It was me and three Bills fans going back and forth on this text chain about how much the city is going through and how they need some good news. ...

A popular Rensselaer eatery that has been closed since October is getting ready to reopen for business.

In November, Longfellows near Saratoga Lake announced that it would be closing after over twenty-five years. The restaurant, conference center, and hotel were up for sale. Now there is a buyer and here is what they are planning.

It has been a big week for new restaurant announcements in the Capital Region!