Voters on Tuesday rejected the Cobleskill-Richmondville district’s $35.28 million budget proposal 981-1,198, sending the Board of Education back to the chalk board to consider other options.

To hammer home the importance of wearing a seat belt, the state Department of Motor Vehicles hosted a competition at Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake High School on Tuesday that had teams of four buckling up as fast as possible in every seat of the driver education vehicle.

A small group of cyclists will ride into a large crowd at Landis Arboretum during the Capital Region Arboretum to Arboretum Bike Ride on Saturday.

In the aftermath of Tropical Storm Irene, National Grid was one of the first to provide businesses with recovery funds. Since then, it has continued helping local businesses, distributing roughly 50 grants averaging $25,000 from a $6 million Emergency Economic Development Fund.

Georel Lloyd, 19, formerly of Ontario Street, was sentenced to 20 years to life Tuesday for killing Terrill Reese Jr. with a shotgun Sept. 18, 2010.

Laura LaFrate describes the past few months as walking a tightrope of social politics.

A Schoharie County man was sentenced to seven years in state prison for raping a girl near Fort Hardy Park in the town of Saratoga.

The Schenectady Police Department spent more than twice what it was budgeted in overtime last year, but Chief Mark Chaires pointed to irresponsible budgeting as part of the problem.

The City Council voted 4-1 Tuesday for a local law that will place a proposed change in the form of city government before voters in November.

Former Union College President Roger Hull and anti-death penalty activist David Kaczynski are among those who will be honored at the Schenectady County Human Rights Commission’s annual awards ceremony at the Glen Sanders Mansion this morning.

Fulton County will sue the Hudson River-Black River Regulating District for delinquent taxes owed this year to school districts, towns and villages.

Suspended Schenectady police Sgt. William Fennell pleaded guilty Tuesday morning in Bethlehem Town Court to misdemeanor driving while intoxicated, court officials said.

A state senator from western New York on Tuesday criticized plans for a 1,000-megawatt buried power line that would run through the Capital Region between Canada and New York City.

Dressed in full uniform and standing at attention inside the GE Theatre at Proctors, Detective Jeremy Pace and Sgt. Thomas Kelly were awarded a Chief’s Special Citation, which went to only three of the Schenectady police force’s 145 members on Tuesday night during the Valor Day awards ceremony.