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  • mineEconomy

    ‘You can’t see China now as a reliable supply-chain partner’: Graphite mines forsaken for 70 years come back into fashion

    By Michael Hill and The Associated Press
  • New York Gov. Kathy Hochul speaks during a House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing, June 12, 2025, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington.Politics

    Legally assisted suicide to become law in New York State

    By Anthony Izaguirre, Michael Hill, and others
  • Letitia JamesLaw

    Piling on Trump DOJ’s legitimacy issues, Letitia James challenges appointment of U.S. attorney suing her

    By Michael Hill and The Associated Press
  • ColumbusNorth America

    ‘Beyond insulting’: Syracuse’s offer to erect a Hiawatha statue instead of tear down Columbus met with disbelief from Native leader

    By Michael Hill and The Associated Press
  • A large lithium battery energy storage system operated by Key Capture Energy that can power 15,000 homes for two hours during outages or high demand sits surrounded by a fence in Blasdell, N.Y., Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey)Energy

    ‘We’re not guinea pigs’ — Cities fight plans for large battery energy storage systems over fears they will go up in flames

    By Michael Hill and The Associated Press
  • Hamilton, New YorkLaw

    Miles ‘Burt’ Marshall, 73-year-old upstate New Yorker, indicted for alleged $95 million Ponzi scheme

    By Michael Hill and The Associated Press
  • Officers at the Auburn Correctional Facility continue to hold the line on the third day of their strike to protest unsafe working conditions in Auburn, N.Y., on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025. (Kevin Rivoli/The Citizen via AP)Success

    National Guard helps run New York prisons as state fires 2,000 guards for refusing to return to work after ‘illegal’ 22-day strike

    By Michael Hill and The Associated Press
  • Leaders stand together for a picture at an event at the Albany NanoTech Complex in New YorkTech

    New York slated to become the national epicenter for semiconductor research with the most advanced chip-making machinery in the world

    By Michael Hill and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Sen. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., talks after a policy luncheon on Capitol Hill, Sept. 24, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)Tech

    New York semiconductor research site picked for $825 million in CHIPS act funding

    By Michael Hill and The Associated Press
  • John StephensRetail

    Remington leaves the upstate New York village where it made guns for 200 years after a PE takeover and 2 bankruptcies

    By Michael Hill and The Associated Press
  • ConnecticutRetail

    Absurd federal laws leave New York with too much weed and too few stores, Connecticut retailers with cannabis shortage

    By Pat Eaton-Robb, Michael Hill, and others
  • Animal sheltersSuccess

    Animal shelters overflow as Americans dump ‘pandemic puppies’ in droves. They’re too broke to keep their dogs

    By Michael Hill and The Associated Press
  • OrstedEnvironment

    America’s wind execs on Biden’s scrapped offshore dreams: ‘We probably still need to go through the same learning curve that Europe did’

    By Jennifer McDermott, Matthew Daly, and others
  • Long shot of a swimmer in lower ManhattanEnvironment

    Why a 53-year-old Englishman spent a month swimming from upstate New York to the tip of Manhattan

    By Michael Hill, Ted Shaffrey, and others
  • Paul HudsonSuccess

    Excitement turns to mud at West Point as nearly 200-year-old time capsule is opened to reveal just a bunch of dust

    By Michael Hill and The Associated Press