Troy News

The largest earthquake simulation ever performed on a wood building could yield data on how to protect homes and apartments, U.S. and Japanese engineers said.

A Rensselaer County grand jury indicted a city man Friday for allegedly throwing a city police officer through a plate glass window.

Chuck Fetekes says the timing of the fire at his Lansingburg eatery couldn't be much worse - 4th of July weekend and a day after floodwater at another of his locations in Cohoes cost him half a day that he could have spent preparing to open a new shop in Saratoga Springs.

NEW YORK Jim Murphy has been named the new publisher of the Journal Register Company's Troy Newspapers in Troy, N.Y., the company reported Tuesday.

It's your first semester at college, and chances are it's the first time you've been away from home for an extended period of time.

Fire consumed a portion of the city's architectural and culinary history Friday morning.

Troy firefighters battle a raging fire that, firefighters say, got its start in Hot Dog Charlie's eatery on 2nd Avenue in the city's Lansingburgh section.

TROY, N.Y. - The popular Syracuse-based Dinosaur Bar-B-Que restaurant chain is in line to get hundreds of thousands of dollars in tax breaks to open its fourth New York location.

Times Union, Albany, N.Y. Middle Jul. 1--TROY -- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's 12-minute delay in reporting a growing fire risked the lives of 15 firefighters, the city's fire chief and fire union president said Tuesday.

Internal strife has led to the resignation of at least eight members of the board of directors of the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall over the past six months, including five leading members who quit en masse Thursday.

DONE DEAL! SYRACUSE-BASED DINOSAUR BBQ, WHICH HAS OUTLETS IN ROCHESTER AND NYC, IS COMING TO TROY.

TROY, N.Y. - More than a dozen firefighters are recovering after they were exposed to smoke and chemicals after a fire broke out inside a laboratory at an Albany-area college.

A $13.5 million school under construction here promises to train students for jobs in the new economy, including the "clean-tech" and semiconductor manufacturing fields.

TROY MAYOR HARRY TUTUNJIAN WANTS TO PADLOCK A DOG PARK WITHIN BEMAN PARK....BECAUSE OF LIABILITY ISSUES AND QUESTIONS ABOUT ITS LEGALITY.

Founded: In 1971, by a nun, Mary Jane Smith, two Franciscan friars, Regis Obijiski and Peter Callaghan, with $4,000. The trio converted a dilapidated apartment building on Eighth Street into a base for their community outreach efforts.

TROY'S MAYOR SAYS HE'S STILL IN TALKS WITH THE POPULAR DINOSAUR BBQ RESTURANT....AND SAYS HE'S WILLING TO DO EVERYTHING POSSIBLE TO CONVINCE THEM TO LOCATE HERE, BUT IT APPARENTLY WON'T BE CHEAP.

Seven grams of crack cocaine, a small amount of marijuana approximately $1,500.00 U.S. currency and a loaded 357 magnum revolver were among the items recovered by police from a house in Troy during a raid yesterday.

A Troy woman is facing drug and weapons charges after police executed a search warrant at 2908 Sixth Avenue on Thursday.

Two men are facing charges after police said they were dealing drugs in the City of Watervliet.

Walter Healey Pleads Guilty to Identity Theft, Unlawful Possession of Personal Identification Information, Tampering with Public Records, and Official Misconduct; Agrees to pay $200,000 ~ Healey Used Access to Sensitive Data, Including Social Security Numbers, to Open Fraudulent Credit Card Accounts ALBANY, N.Y. - Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo ...