NEW YORK — The state’s new executive order limiting in-person gatherings inside private homes to 10 people has been met with considerable criticism, including law enforcement wondering how their officers can enforce this rule.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday he will not accept an upcoming pay raise next year as the s…
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said Wednesday he expects COVID-19 cases to exponentially surge nationw…
By AARON CERBONE
Voter turnout across New York’s 21st Congressional District was high this year.
While absentee ballots remain to be counted, it appears Republican incumbent Rep. Elise M. Stefanik, R-Schuylerville, has won her bid for re-election to 21st Congressional District.
MALONE — Republican Brian Taylor appears to have defeated Democrat Nate Hathaway in the race to fill a vacant position on the Town Board.
This weekend, several dozen people will arrive at secret locations in West Virginia and Colorado to ride out the election and its aftermath. If Tuesday’s vote sparks unrest, Drew Miller’s customers at Fortitude Ranch will be secure behind walls patrolled by armed guards.
MALONE –– A citizens’ committee created by Mayor Andrea Dumas will be seeking public input on the performance of the village Police Department as part of the state’s police reform efforts.
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The two candidates vying to replace Betty Little representing the 45th Senate District in the state Legislature combined to spend more than $200,000 in roughly a three-week stretch entering the final days of the campaign.
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MALONE –– Voters in the village are being asked to choose next week between two candidates for an unexpired term on the Village Board. But the choice has already been made for them.
Health care is once again a big issue in the race for the NY-21 Congressional District seat, as the nation grapples with a pandemic and the U.S. Supreme Court is about to hear a case that could strike down the Affordable Care Act.
PLATTSBURGH — Assemblyman Dan Stec, R-Queensbury, and Clinton County Treasurer Kimberly Davis, D-Plattsburgh, strongly differ on whether the next North Country state senator should be in the Republican minority or Democratic majority.
ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo blasted federal officials Thursday after reports the nation’s Health and Human Services secretary plans to fire the U.S. Food & Drug Administration chief as President Donald Trump’s administration clashes over the nation’s approval standards to promptly authori…
PLATTSBURGH — Much was made over the word “banning” during the second and final debate between U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-Schuylerville, and Democratic challenger Tedra Cobb hosted by NBC5 at the Strand Center Theatre on Wednesday night.
U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-Schuylerville, has three times as much money in the bank as her Democratic challenger, Tedra Cobb, as the candidates head into the final sprint to the election.
WATERTOWN — Tedra L. Cobb, the Democratic candidate for the 21st Congressional District race, said health care is personal for her, and she continues to focus on that issue as she runs for the North Country’s House seat a second time.
WATERTOWN — Rep. Elise M. Stefanik, R-Schuylerville, said she’s been hearing multiple concerns from constituents about COVID relief legislation, jobs, health care and the economy these past few months.
WATERTOWN — The candidates for New York’s 21st Congressional District, Rep. Elise M. Stefanik, R-Schuylerville, and her Democratic opponent Tedra L. Cobb, faced off for the first time this election season in a contentious debate Monday afternoon.
State Senate candidate Dan Stec says the state Legislature will need to make some difficult budget decisions in the coming year, especially due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and he has a list of what he would like to cut and what he would like to save if elected.
By AARON CERBONE
The two candidates vying to succeed retiring state Sen. Betty Little had spent roughly the same amount on their respective campaigns as the 20202 election season entered its final month.
The campaign to re elect Rep. Elise M. Stefanik, R-Schuylerville, is at odds with the campaign of her Democratic opponent Tedra L. Cobb over statements published in an Adirondack Daily Enterprise story on Oct. 3 wishing death on President Donald J. Trump.
ALBANY — President Donald Trump helped facilitate division that fueled violent Brooklyn protests this past week, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said, after releasing a robocall Friday that, after referencing Trump’s campaign, encouraged hundreds of people to rally against the state’s new coronavirus m…
WATERTOWN — Are you registered to vote? Well procrastinators, you’re in luck. It’s not too late, as today is the registration deadline in New York state.
WATERTOWN — The House of Representatives adjourned last week so members could return to their home districts to campaign as the election season wraps up, even though congressional Democrats and White House officials have yet to come to an agreement on the next coronavirus relief package.
North Country U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik said on Tuesday she supports President Donald Trump and the U.S. Department of Justice’s plan to cut federal funding from New York City; Portland, Oregon; and Seattle, Washington –– three cities the DOJ designated as “anarchist jurisdictions” earlier th…
ALBANY — New York state officials stand ready to sue President Donald Trump and the federal government, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said Monday while snapping back at administration officials after the U.S. Department of Justice made a motion to label New York City an anarchist jurisdiction.
DANNEMORA — Speaking across the street from the Clinton Correctional Facility entrance Friday, Assemblyman D. Billy Jones, D-Chateaugay Lake, and the union representing correctional officers voiced support for measures they say would help ensure the safety of those who cross that threshold e…
Intelligence officials remain unable to verify that Russia offered Taliban-linked militants cash rewards for killing American and allied forces in Afghanistan.
BRUSHTON –– Incumbent Mayor Kevin Pentalow cruised to a second four-year term in an election delayed six months by the COVID-19 pandemic.
A day after tapes on which the president is heard saying he downplayed the coronavirus pandemic surfaced, Tedra L. Cobb on Wednesday called for her Republican opponent to resign from her position as co-chair of the president’s New York re-election campaign.
ALBANY — The nation’s decrease in positive coronavirus cases is a fraudulent scam after a recent change in federal testing guidelines, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said, as the state weighs a mandatory flu vaccine for children to return to school.
NEW YORK — President Donald Trump is actively trying to kill New York City, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said before announcing an executive order Tuesday expanding where New Yorkers can submit ballots to cast a vote in the upcoming presidential election.
WATERTOWN — U.S. Sen. Kirsten E. Gillibrand, D-NY, visited the city’s post office on Labor Day to talk about disruptions in mailing and to advocate for a $25 billion infusion to the U.S. Postal Service.
Tedra Cobb, the Democratic candidate for the NY-21 House seat, said she is disgusted by how President Donald J. Trump has talked about veterans and those who have died while at war. The campaign of her opponent, incumbent U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik, defended the president and called reports of…
ALBANY — New York Attorney General Letitia James will take legal action against President Donald Trump if he follows through with his threat to defund New York City, she said Thursday.
New York state opened an online absentee ballot request portal on Tuesday as part of this year’s efforts to make the Nov. 3 election as safe and socially distanced as possible.
The morning after U.S. Rep. Elise M. Stefanik spoke at the Republican National Convention, her Democratic challenger in the race for the 21st Congressional District condemned the speech.
ALBANY — New York will not implement the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s sudden about-face on COVID-19 testing guidelines, which discourage coronavirus testing for individuals exposed to the virus.
OGDENSBURG — U.S. Sen. Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., continued to rail against Postmaster General Louis DeJoy at a news conference in front of the city’s Post Office on Friday morning.
On Tuesday, the campaign to re-elect U.S. Rep. Elise M. Stefanik, R-Schuylerville, relaunched a website attacking her Democratic opponent, Tedra L. Cobb.
ALBANY — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo signed three election reform bills Thursday in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Stefanik to speak at Republican National Convention next week, to discuss ‘far-left’ legacy of Biden
U.S. Rep. Elise M. Stefanik, R-Schuylerville, will be delivering a prime time address at the Republican National Convention next week.
U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-Schuylerville, and Democratic challenger Tedra Cobb disagree on many things, including the schedule for their televised debates.
PLATTSBURGH –– North Country congresswoman Elise Stefanik voiced support for presidential memoranda signed by President Donald Trump and increased funding for the U.S. Postal Service during media availabilities at two Plattsburgh events recently.
Tedra Cobb, Democratic nominee in the election for the NY-21 House of Representatives seat, hosted a digital roundtable conversation recently with constituents on veterans issues.
DICKINSON –– Town Highway Superintendent Richard Fountain announced Thursday he will be leaving his position to take a job with the St. Regis Falls Central School District.
Both candidates running for the North Country’s congressional seat Nov. 3 spoke this week on immigration and border issues. Both support funding to secure the U.S. borders, although incumbent Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik says her Democratic opponent, Tedra Cobb, doesn’t.
Tedra Cobb, the Democratic nominee in the race for the NY-21 House seat, said that the country must have a unified, federal response to the COVID-19 pandemic before the problems it has caused can begin to be addressed.
