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The state’s largest agricultural lobbying group said it hopes the state legislature will tackle issues dealing with tax credits and work visas.

Last week four Americans were killed by a suicide bomber in Syria. ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack, which left three service members and one civilian dead.

One of those service members was former SUNY Plattsburgh student Shannon Kent.

The New York State Legislature voted Tuesday to codify the abortion rights in the U.S. Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade into New York law. Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the measure immediately after the vote.

“The most aggressive women's equality platform in the nation is going to be in law in this state,” Cuomo said at a bill signing ceremony immediately following the vote. “ And that's the way it should be."

The to-do list that Governor Andrew Cuomo unveiled at his budget address last week was long. But Cuomo also said the state would have to make tradeoffs - between spending and filling a massive budget shortfall.

Canton writer Kiley Frank’s new children’s book, “Tomorrow is Waiting”, guides young readers through all the ways they can experience the world. Frank worked in publishing for six years in New York City before moving to the North Country.

"Women Empowered: Fashions from the Frontline," is an exhibit at Cornell University chronicling the ways women have used fashion throughout history to collectively uplift themselves.

There’s a big fight underway over the future of the Hudson River. Over the last decade, the federal government forced General Electric to spend hundreds of millions of dollars cleaning up tons of toxic PCBs, oily pollution the company dumped in the river. It was seen as a model program, but a growing number of critics say it didn’t work.

The New York State legislature is poised to approve a bill to codify the abortion rights in the U.S. Supreme Court decision Roe v Wade into state law. For supporters, including the majority of Senators and Assemblymembers, it's been a long time coming. But for opponents, it's a bitter disappointment.

This month marks 21 years since the 1998 Ice Storm. Anybody who lived through it remembers the thick ice that encased everything, the sound of breaking trees, and the power outages that left whole towns without electricity, some for weeks.

David Seymour had a slightly different perspective than most - in 1998 he was working out of Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation's Potsdam office. During and after the ice storm he was one of the thousands of utilities workers scrambling to turn the lights back on.

Governor Andrew Cuomo is warning New Yorkers to remain vigilant as a massive snowstorm gives way to a blast of arctic temperatures. State officials say the North Country and the Adirondacks received the brunt of the harsh weather, with nearly two feet of snow in some areas.