Rensselaer News

Deborah VanAmerongen, Commissioner of the NYS Division of Housing and Community Renewal announced $1.6 million in NYS Community Development Block Grant and Small Business Assistance Program awards to support businesses in Chemung, Rensselaer, Wyoming, Genesee, and Oswego Counties and create 129 new jobs for local residents.

A manufacturing company in Troy, N.Y., will receive more than $400,000 from the state to help buy new machines and add 26 jobs.

The polls are open for Election Day 2009. Many races across the Capitol Region are getting a lot of attention today.

Halloween is upon us once again. As a kid, I loved Halloween. As an adult? Not so much.

The Cousins Fish Market Inc. , a seafood and meat wholesaler in Albany, N.Y., filed for bankruptcy on Oct.

The voter fraud investigation of allegedly forged absentee ballots in Troy, New York is gaining national attention.

RENSSELAER, N.Y. - The Amtrak passenger figures at the Albany-Rensselaer station were consistent with the national trend and decreased in 2009 but the station is still ranked as the 10th busiest in the country, officials said on Tuesday.

ATMs were created to make life easier on customers, but that's not the case when it comes to depositing checks.

After two months under new leadership, the State Liquor Authority has streamlined its applications process with improvements that made it possible for one local applicant to receive its license to sell alcohol in less than three weeks instead of the more typical six to nine months.

Underwater vegetation - seaweed, essentially - is forcing big changes to a proposed $250 million to $300 million riverfront marina, residential and office development with views of the downtown Albany skyline.

A New York state employee who had access to government-owned archives has been arrested on suspicion of stealing hundreds of historic documents, many of which he sold on eBay, authorities said on Monday.

Two houses were destroyed by a suspicious fire on Green Street early this morning.

A SLIGHT PROPERTY TAX INCREASE IS ON THE HORIZON FOR HOMEOWNERS IN RENSSELAER COUNTY.

Health officials at New York's Rensselaer Polytech blame drinking games like "beer pong" for an outbreak of flu at the campus.

A former North Adams resident was arraigned Tuesday for allegedly plotting to kidnap, torture and kill the former district attorney who put him behind bars.

A prisoner at Green Haven Correctional Facility in Stormville, who is service 8 ½ years in prison for a 2004 bank robbery in Rensselear County, has been arrested and charged with soliciting another person to kidnap and kill former Rensselaer District Attorney Patricia DeAngelis.

Medical officials at an upstate New York college want students to close the tap on drinking games to prevent the spread of swine flu.

REPUBLICAN MEMBERS OF THE RENSSELAER COUNTY LEGISLATURE WILL BE CALLING TODAY FOR REFORMS TO THE ABSENTEE BALLOT PROCESS....AFTER ALLEGATIONS OF BALLOT FRAUD AND FORGERY.

Flux - " the Future of Albany's Historic Churches? October 7, 2009 at 1:01 pm by Brian Tromans flux - "noun 1. a flowing or flow.

It wasn't the Capital Region's photogenic scenery and architecture that lured Angelina Jolie or "The Other Guys" to downtown Albany.