Hudson News

FORT MONTGOMERY - It took eight long years of war, but on Nov. 25, 1783, the defeated British finally pulled out of the United States.

One man drowned and another managed to swim to safety late Tuesday afternoon after they were thrown out of their flat-bottomed boat when it went over a dam on the Hudson River as they were working on the PCB dredging project.... Subscribers must LOG-IN to read this full story.

Two of Rockland's towns stood up for the Hudson River and said 'no' to an unsustainable desalination proposal and 'yes' to meeting our community's water needs through sustainable water conservation and management, green infrastructure and water reuse.

NEWBURGH: A man smoked his last cigarette, then climbed off a pier and plunged into the Hudson River on Thursday morning.

City police divers found a man who apparently drowned himself Thursday morning in the Hudson River within view of the waterfront restaurants.

Nighttime visibility on the Hudson River Greenway north of W. 102nd Street has not improved since Jacob-uptown took this photo a year ago.

The crowded airspace over the Hudson River, where nine people died in the collision of a small plane and a sightseeing helicopter, will be split into a low-altitude zone for local traffic and a higher one for longer-distance flights, the Federal Aviation Administration said Monday.

After a mid-air collision between a small charter plane and a sightseeing helicopter over the Hudson River this summer killed nine people, observers were quick to blame the Federal Aviation Administration for poorly regulating the airspace, letting it become clogged with private planes.

NEW YORK  - The federal government on Thursday will introduce new safeguards for the airspace over the Hudson River in response to a deadly mid-air collision between a small plane and helicopter this past August.

Mary Bonhag, Celine Mogielnicki, Madyson Page and Christina Lalog will perform "Sunrise: A Morning Sound," a concert for healing, at 7 p.m. tonight.

CORTLANDT - A Croton-on-Hudson man with two previous convictions for driving while intoxicated was drunk Thursday when he got into an accident on Albany Post Road, state police said.

It's a bridge. It's a park. It's a not-for-profit. It's all of the above. And its unique, little-bit-of-everything status raises a couple of questions.

NEW YORK: Recognized for his work as developer/exec producer for IFC's Whitest Kids You Know and Comedy Central's Michael and Michael Have Issues, LC Inc.

Author Jasmina Tesanovic writes this guest-essay on the work of 63-year old Serbian artist Marina Abramovic , the "grandmother of performance art" whose work will be honored in 2010 in a MOMA retrospective: All her work is centered on body, her body which went through severe trials all these years: cutting, beating starving, public exposure... the ...

"Turkey: Racism In, Ataturk Out The secular spirit of Kamal Ataturk that brought Turkey so close to the Western world is fading away.

Benito Herrero, the principal of Fieldstone Secondary School in Thiells, was sentenced Wednesday to three years' probation and a $750 fine for drunken driving with his young daughter in the car.

It's an off-year election, which means voters from the Hudson to the Delaware will be confronted by some unfamiliar, out-of-county names in two races for state Supreme Court.

In a move supporters say could bring elevated national prestige and levels of federal funding to the region, Congressman Maurice Hinchey Monday unveiled new legislation he's authored that would initiate the process for the Hudson River Valley special resources study by the National Park Service .

COLDENHAM - Robert H. Boyle, founder of the Hudson River Fishermen's Association , author and a campaigner for the health of the river, will be the guest speaker at the Rudy Vallet Memorial Dinner of the Stewart Park and Reserve Coalition.

A 31-year-old City of Hudson man is in Albany Medical Center in stable condition after being stabbed in the parking lot of the Moose Club on Town Hall Drive in the Town of Greenport.