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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency got about 2,000 comments from people and groups over whether the seven-year, $1.7 billion PCB dredging project of the Hudson River has been a success, the agency said WednesdayEPA must consider those comments as part of its final report on the the dredging project, which the agency expects to issue early this year.

AlbanyNew York is pushing the administration of President Donald Trump to make five other predominantly coal-burning states reduce air pollution that is forming smog in New York.Both Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman on Wednesday filed a complaint with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for allegedly failing to enforce the federal Clean Air Act.

A Cortlandt man is facing multiple felonies after he allegedly damaged a State Police cruiser and threatened his neighbors with a fence post.Police were called at about 9:10 p.m. on Jan. 11 to Broadway and 14th Street in Verplanck for a report of a man screaming.

SCHENECTADY - The so-called fairness hearing in Price Chopper's $6.5 million overtime pay settlement with current and former department managers across the northeast is taking place Friday now instead of Thursday.The hearing - at U.S. District Court in Springfield, Mass. - was rescheduled to Friday at 1:30 p.m

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday proposed increasing state aid to New York public schools by $769 million or 3 percent this coming school year, for overall aid of $26.4 billion. See how Capital Region school districts would be affected by the governor's proposed budget in the infographic below.

ALBANY - FuzeHub, an state-supported nonprofit that lends manufacturing expertise to small to medium sized companies across the state, is getting ready to accept applications for its latest round of grants.

Wallace Altes, who headed the Albany-Colonie Regional Chamber of Commerce as president and CEO for a dozen years, has been named interim president and CEO of the United Way of the Greater Capital Region.Altes fills a position that was left vacant when Brian Hassett departed last month for a similar post with the United Way of Metropolitan Nashville. Altes' appointment is effective immediately.

A project in the works for more than three years is moving ahead in downtown Troy, the city's mayor announced Wednesday.City Station North, being developed by the United Group of Companies, will include a four-story office building, six-story apartment building, and a 250-space parking garage. The project will be built on the site of the former Bumstead Chevrolet dealership, later the Educational Opportunity Center, along the west side of Sixth Avenue between Congress and State streets.

MONTICELLO, N.Y. (AP) — The Resorts World Catskills casino northwest of New York City is set to open on Feb. 8 Resorts World Catskills will be the fourth of four Las Vegas-style casinos to open in upstate New York under an amendment to the state constitution approved by New York voters. The casino in the heart of the old "Borscht Belt" will be about 90 miles from Manhattan and will feature 150 table games and 2,150 slot machines. The overall $1.2 billion resort will have a hotel, an entertainment village, an indoor waterpark lodge and an 18-hole golf course.

ROTTERDAM - Charter Communications is bringing high-speed internet to New York state faster than expected after acquiring the Time Warner Cable system back in 2016.The move by Charter's Spectrum unit will provide competition to Verizon's FiOS network, which has recently started offering gigabit internet speeds to residential customers as well in its limited Capital Region network.