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Hoosick Falls' Jake Sparks never hesitated in filling his scholastic year with football, basketball and baseball. The senior star has been a perennial all-star in all three sports.

You've had the rest. now here's the best! . 🏆 The results from our 2023 Best of the Capital Region poll are in.

More luxury apartments are coming to the Electric City Apartment building in downtown Schenectady.

A series of railroad crossings in Voorheesville, Altamont, Knox and Duanesburg will be closed to through traffic starting Monday, according to an advisory from Albany County.

TOP WORKPLACES: This year, nearly 9,000 employees rated their workplace culture — and the results are in. These are the Capital Region’s 63 Top Workplaces.

New York is a nexus of genealogical research, given how many families can trace their roots through Ellis Island. But researchers say the state's slow-moving Department of Health is hindering their work.

The Siena men's lacrosse team gets to play another day at Hickey Field - or "Hickey Beach," as graduate goalie Christopher Yanchoris described it. They'll be the No. 4 seed and face No. 5 Sacred Heart in a first-round match next Saturday in Loudonville.

Residents at a public meeting last week were not happy with a plan to close a popular beach on Great Sacandaga Lake.

Closing sales will begin Wednesday at the Bed, Bath & Beyond in Colonie as the bankrupt home goods retailer prepares to shutter its remaining stores.

A Whitehall man was killed while riding his motorcycle along Route 149 Friday night, Washington County deputies said.

A driver was killed in a two-car crash Saturday afternoon near Algonquin Road in Niskayuna, police say.

CHURCHILL: The region's dog paradise is closed for the season. Humans will miss it, too.

Newsweek has named Camp Chingachgook one of the country's best summer camps of 2023.

A person lying in the road was hit and killed by a car Saturday night just south of the village of Ballston Spa, police say.

The Capital Region is taking over Nashville — musician Annie Scherer has advanced to the final four in Music City Mayhem, an emerging artists competition hosted by Nashville radio station Lightning 100.

The number of drivers impaired by marijuana and involved in fatal crashes has been surging for years.

You've had the rest. now here's the best! . 🏆 The results from our 2023 Best of the Capital Region poll are in.