Times Union (Albany)

The Times Union is a daily newspaper based in the Capital Region of New York, USA. While it primarily emphasizes Albany and its surrounding suburbs, it also provides coverage for the entire four-county area, which includes cities like Troy, Schenectady, and Saratoga Springs. The newspaper is part of the Hearst Corporation. Established in 1857 under the name Morning Times, it was acquired by William Randolph Hearst in 1924. The Times Union has had an online presence since 1996.

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Schenectady basketball camp, league at Jerry Burrell Park set to return this summer

16 hours ago | timesunion.com | Paul Nelson

SCHENECTADY — Rashaun Freeman fondly recalls growing up on Schenectady Street in the Hamilton Hill neighborhood and walking to nearby Jerry Burrell Park, where he honed his basketball skills and stayed out of trouble. “When I go in those parks, and see nothing going on, it breaks my heart, it’s a big deal to me,” he said last week during a joint appearance with Interim City Parks Director Bill Macejka at the City Council Committee meeting.
Schenectady man pleads guilty in dog cruelty case

1 day ago | timesunion.com | Paul Nelson

SCHENECTADY — The city man who left a severely abused and emaciated female pit bull at a gas station last month has admitted to abandoning the dog, according to his attorney. Police affectionately named the brown and white dog Lavender. The 31-year-old man pleaded guilty in City Court to misdemeanor overdriving, torturing and injuring animals under the state Agriculture and Markets law, the court clerk said.
Texas prosecutor sues to compel Border Patrol testimony in trial of Uvalde police officer

1 day ago | timesunion.com | Jim Vertuno

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas prosecutor filed a federal lawsuit seeking to force three U.S. Border Patrol agents who responded to the 2022 Robb Elementary School shooting to testify in the prosecution of the former school police chief, who is facing criminal charges over the slow law enforcement action at the massacre.
Photos: Campus shuffle at University at Albany

1 day ago | timesunion.com | Lori Van Buren

ALBANY — The uptown campus at the University at Albany was a hive of activity on Tuesday as workers prepared for upcoming commencement events and students moved out of their dorms before the spring semester’s final day on Wednesday. The university-wide undergraduate commencement ceremony is Saturday at the campus entry plaza, but more intimate stage crossings for undergraduates and graduate students will take place Thursday through Sunday at the school’s Broadview Center.
Democrats endorse set of changes to Pennsylvania election rules, sending bill to state Senate

1 day ago | timesunion.com | Mark Scolforo |Marc Levy

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania voters would get more than a week of early voting and county election officials would have more time to start processing mail-in ballots under an election law proposal that advanced out of the state House on Tuesday by a single vote, with all Republicans opposed.
Corinth couple charged in daughter's death appear in court

1 day ago | timesunion.com | Patrick Tine

CORINTH — Matthew and Samantha Dylewski, the couple charged with neglecting their daughter to such a degree that it allegedly caused her death in a squalid Main Street apartment in February, appeared in town court Tuesday for a preliminary hearing. It was their first appearance since being arraigned on criminally negligent homicide charges last week. Saratoga County Undersheriff Jeffrey R.
NY attorney general files two more lawsuits against Trump administration

1 day ago | timesunion.com | Brendan J. Lyons

ALBANY — The New York attorney general’s onslaught of litigation against the Trump administration continued Tuesday with the filing of two more lawsuits — both challenging federal policies threatening to cut federal aid for a state’s failure to support immigration deportation efforts. Since January, there have been more than two dozen lawsuits or legal interventions initiated by state Attorney General Letitia James, an outspoken critic of President Donald J.
Farmers weigh Trump's trade war like they watch the weather, waiting to see how things go

1 day ago | timesunion.com | Steve Karnowski |Kristin Hall

WAVERLY, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota farmer Dan Glessing isn’t ready to get too upset over President Donald Trump’s trade wars. Farm country voted heavily for Trump last November. Now Glessing and many other farmers are taking a wait-and-see attitude toward the Republican president's disputes with China and other international markets.
Guests at Bethlehem hotel evacuated during standoff

1 day ago | timesunion.com | Lauren Stanforth

BETHLEHEM — Guests at the Quality Inn off Route 9W were evacuated for about five hours early Tuesday morning after a man there barricaded himself in a room and threatened to hurt people. Albany County Sheriff Craig Apple said police were called around 4 a.m. for an emotionally disturbed person on the hotel's third floor who was making threats against people in the hotel, police officers and patrons next door at Stewart's Shops.
Restaurant review: Boca Bistro still strongly Spanish in Saratoga

1 day ago | timesunion.com | Susie Davidson Powell

When Boca Bistro opened in Saratoga Springs in 2012 — the new baby in the DZ Restaurants portfolio — somehow it wasn’t reviewed by the Times Union, and by the time I started writing for the paper in 2014, it was already two years old. Unlike restaurateur David Zecchini’s existing Italian concepts, Chianti il Ristorante and Forno Bistro (and, at the time, Mare and Pasta Pane), Boca was focused on Spain.