ALBANY — Three years after the Port of Albany became a major hub for rail and barge shipments of highly flammable crude oil from North Dakota, emergency management officials are still grappling with training and response plans to deal with ...
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Read More »New York’s employment topped nine million jobs last year, a record with 538,000 added since the recession, the state comptroller reported Monday. The report showed 143,000 jobs added in 2014, capping four years of steady gains. But growth was uneven ...
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Read More »New York has broadened a ban on synthetic marijuana to keep up with drug makers who create new chemical recipes to evade the existing law. Gov. Andrew Cuomo says Thursday that the state health department has approved tougher regulations to ...
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Read More »In June, New York state’s private sector job count climbed by 24,200, or 0.3 percent to 7.8 million, a new record high, according to preliminary figures released Thursday by the state Department of Labor. Over the past two months, the ...
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Read More »ALBANY — New York state’s private colleges and universities have a new sexual consent policy after Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the measure into law Tuesday in an effort to combat campus sexual violence. The new law contains a “yes means ...
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Read More »ALBANY (AP) — New York state has seen a significant increase in solar power in the last three years. Gov. Andrew Cuomo says Monday that installed solar power generation tripled since 2011. That’s just more than twice the rate of ...
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The uniform bar examination will be fully adopted by New York state, beginning with the July 2016 test, Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman announced today. “New York’s carefully considered decision to adopt the UBE is a huge step towards a ...
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Read More »The state will partner with more than 100 private companies, led by Sematech and IBM, to launch the New York Power Electronics Manufacturing Consortium. Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced the partnership Wednesday at the Rochester facility of SUNY College of ...
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Read More »ALBANY (AP) — New York’s free language interpretation program for filing taxes is humming less than two years after the state created it. At the end of the income tax filing season in April, more than 42,000 taxpayers had called ...
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Read More »NEW YORK — New York is now the 23rd state to authorize marijuana as a medical treatment — though it will have one of the more restrictive programs in the country. Under legislation signed into law on Saturday by Gov. ...
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Read More »ALBANY (AP) — The state Department of Labor says that the unemployment rate in New York is at its lowest level since December 2008. The department released preliminary figures Thursday showing that the unemployment rate in April fell by 0.2 ...
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Read More »NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s pension fund for state and local government workers has reached a record high of $176.2 billion, with a 13 percent return on investment last year, riding a bull market for stocks, Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli ...
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