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A hazardous weather outlook is in effect for the region for the Monday morning commute.

By Stephen Williams
Gazette Reporter

With nighttime temperatures now routinely dropping to freezing or colder, the state has launched its Home Energy Assistance Program to help financially struggling residents pay their fuel bills.

"The Barnyard," a remote canyon in Death Valley National Park, is one of the largest, most diverse and well-preserved deposits of prehistoric mammal and bird tracks known to exist.

U.S. scientists are trained to compete with each other, but Sean Parker is hoping a collaboration will change the focus of the medical field from grants and awards to creating drugs more quickly.

Galway and Berne-Knox-Westerlo posted boys’ basketball wins at the Waterford-Halfmoon Coaches vs. Cancer event Saturday.

The Union College hockey team fired just 17 shots on goal against Quinnipiac on Saturday night at High Point Solutions Arena.

The University at Albany dropped a close game on the road Saturday at Yale 59-55 that came down to blown assignments, missed rebounds and a free throw by, of all people, Joe Cremo.

By Michael Kelly
Gazette Reporter

In its first seven games this season, the Siena College men’s basketball team rarely was able to play its five most-talented players together.

By Daniel Fitzsimmons
Gazette Reporter

Dozens of students from area school districts could be found playing with LEGOs Saturday in the gymnasium at Ballston Spa Middle School. But the word “playing” doesn’t describe what the students were doing as well as the word “engineering.”

By Bill Buell
Gazette Reporter

Kyle Jenks wasn’t sure that portraying a Founding Father like James Madison was something he could pull off.