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Calling all Capital Region photographers. If you just like to take pictures for fun or you do it professionally, you have a chance to have your pictures highlighted as part of the Erie Canalway 2022 calendar. Here are the details and how to submit them.

Bear sightings seem to be the norm these days throughout the Capital Region, and while it's always wise to keep a safe distance, our natural curiosity makes it impossible to veer away.   Bears are curious creatures too, and in the hunt for food, they sometimes get themselves into some…

I was in Amsterdam a few weeks ago for a Make a Wish event and in typical "Brian fashion," I may have gotten a  bit lost trying to find the spot that my girlfriend Samantha and I needed to be.  In fairness, there are literally a thousand detours in the city currently and trying to get to w…

A North Greenbush man is selling a golf cart that every single golfer you know needs to own or wishes they could.  This thing is a BEAST.
Imagine the looks you'll get on the course (the stuffier the place the better) when the other members at the country club see you roll up in this $9,000 bright yel…

New York State Police are looking for 3 individuals that allegedly broke into a hunting camp.

Residents in Greene County have been on high alert after a powerful storm - possibly a tornado - ripped through the Village Coxsackie on Wednesday afternoon.  Power outages along with extensive damage is being reported throughout town as dozens of trees were uprooted and many electrical lines d…

In the sports world, there are few things more exciting than a Game 7.  It's what kids dream of when shooting hoops in the backyard with friends; it's do or die, win or go home and in this case, where legends are born.
Last night during game 7 of the NBA Eastern Conference semi-finals, 2016 Shen grad…

Woody Harrelson, the star of the HBO's upcoming five-part Watergate series, "The White House Plumbers," wasn't scheduled to be filmed during day #1  of the downtown Albany shoot on Tuesday, but he dropped by on bike anyway.
It's pretty awesome to see big stars like Harrelson and Justin Ther…

It was dangerously hot when the batteries on Stanley Green's motorized wheelchair died last Monday in Albany.  To make maters worse, his oxygen tank was running low and he had neither the strength nor the energy to get himself back home.
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Back in April, someone cryptically placed a beautifully painted, well-crafted rocking chair with the likeness of a young girl inside City Park in Glens Falls.  Alone it sits, undisturbed and mysterious in nature. No one knows who put it there or why.  
A few months ...

At around 6pm Thursday evening, a massive crowd of police officers, firefighters, bikers, cheerleaders, friends, family and complete strangers gathered below the foot bridge at Albany Medical Center to lift the spirits of an 11-year-old girl named Anna LaBella...

I've lived in Albany my whole life, and until recently I had never seen a bird's-eye view of The Egg at the Empire State Plaza in downtown Albany.  I honestly have no clue what kind of late-night rabbit hole I dove into, but when I came up for air, I knew more about The Egg's history than I ever nee…