Construction on an affordable housing complex, called Cold Spring Apartments, in Tannersville has begun. According to the New York State Homes and Community Renewal Commissioner Ruthanne Visnauskas, the housing development will include 56-units for seniors and local workers. ... Read full Story
The best chance for strong storms in the Capital District will be around lunchtime. Heavy rain will make for nasty driving conditions, and gusty winds could down a few branches or trees. Small hail is less of a threat, but could be possible within the very strongest storms. ... Read full Story
Officials are urging boaters to be cautious when on the water this weekend. Also, 129 snakes were rescued and ready for adoption. These stories, and more, are in your five things to know this Thursday, sponsored by the CDTA. ... Read full Story
After taking Game 1 of the series against the first place Quebec Capitales, the Tri-City ValleyCats could not get the offense going in Game 2, losing 7-1. ... Read full Story
With summer in full swing an increase in youth violence is usually seen in the Capital Region. One local man is providing community kids with safer options. Wednesday, he introduced several new recruits from the Albany Police Department Academy to the community by taking them on a walk through the neighborhood. ... Read full Story
QUEENSBURY, N.Y. (NEWS10) The SPCA of Upstate New York rescued 129 snakes in Queensbury back in April. The SPCA says that they were rescued from abusive conditions, but the snakes are now healthy and ready for adoption. According to the SPCA, 129 snakes and over 1000 rodents were rescued. Since April, the SPCA has been [...] ... Read full Story
The Saratoga Springs Police Department has issued parking restrictions and road closures for the Fourth of July. The restrictions and closures are for the Firecracker 4 race, which begins at 9 a.m., and the All-American Celebration, which starts at 7 p.m. ... Read full Story
“There’s a lot of people that are turning to pills and heroin to cope with many different issues and we have to provide services to help those people,” said Mayor Kamal Johnson. He knew all three people who likely overdosed over the last eight days. They were all under 40. ... Read full Story
ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10)---According to the Siena Research Institute, a majority of empire state voters do not think the Big Beautiful Bill will improve the life of most Americans. The latest Siena Poll asked New York voters about President Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill. Pollster Steve Greenberg said there is a big partisan divide. "Sixty-nine percent of Democrats think that the Big [...] ... Read full Story
A Manhattan Supreme Court judge ruled that New York City Mayor Eric Adams' emergency orders suspending the HALT Act were arbitrary and capricious, while an Albany Supreme Court judge ruled that the statewide suspension of the HALT Act was also unlawful, ordering DOCCS to comply with the law effective July 11. ... Read full Story
New York State Police are investigating a Saratoga County crash that killed a man on Wednesday. Troopers said James Z. Morgan, 29, of Hudson Falls, died on the scene of the crash on West River Road in Northumberland. ... Read full Story
A Granville couple has been indicted by the New York State Attorney General's Office for allegedly defrauding over a dozen homeowners. The AG's Office said John McClure, 44, and his wife, Sarah Chambers, 38, are accused of operating a vast contractor fraud scheme in Washington and Warren Counties. ... Read full Story
Schoharie County Department of Health officials announced on July 2 that the boil water notice in Cobleskill has been lifted in nearly all areas of the village. ... Read full Story
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for July 3, 2025 is:
desultory \DEH-sul-tor-ee\ adjective
Desultory is a formal word used to describe something that lacks a plan or purpose, or that occurs without regularity. It can also describe something unconnected to a main subject, or something that is disappointing in progress, performance, or quality.
// After graduation, I moved from job to job in a more or less desultory manner before finding work I liked.
// The team failed to cohere over the course of the season, stumbling to a desultory fifth place finish.
“One other guy was in the waiting room when I walked in. As we sat there past the scheduled time of our appointments, we struck up a desultory conversation. Like me, he’d been in the hiring process for years, had driven down from Albuquerque the night before, and seemed nervous. He asked if I’d done any research on the polygraph. I said no, and asked him the same question. He said no. We were getting our first lies out of the way.” — Justin St. Germain, “The Memoirist and the Lie Detector,” New England Review, 2024
Did you know?
The Latin adjective desultorius was used by the ancient Romans to describe a circus performer (called a desultor) whose trick was to leap from horse to horse without stopping. English speakers took the idea of the desultorius performer and coined the word desultory to describe that which figuratively “jumps” from one thing to another, without regularity, and showing no sign of a plan or purpose. (Both desultor and desultorius, by the way, come from the Latin verb salire, meaning “to leap.”) A desultory conversation leaps from one topic to another, and a desultory comment is one that jumps away from the topic at hand. Meanwhile a desultory performance is one resulting from an implied lack of steady, focused effort.