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The Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) today launched its annual Black History Month campaign, designed to honor and

ALBANY — State representatives have submitted matching bills that, if approved, would require New York state to pay taxes on property it owns in the city of Ogdensburg.

ALBANY — State lawmakers on Monday passed legislation to add a Corrections Law provision that prohibits double bunking in prison dormitories.

CANTON — A more than two-year wait for a $6 million state grant for St. Lawrence County emergency services is over. The county Board of Legislators’ Operations Committee last week unanimously passed a resolution authorizing board chair William J. Sheridan to sign a contract with the state and modify the 2021 budget to reflect a $6 million revenue increase from the 2018 Statewide Interoperable Communications Targeted Grant program for radio dispatch upgrades. SICG-Targeted is part of a collection of interoperable communications grants administered by the state Division of Homeland Se...

Watertown Daily Times New Yorkers this November will be asked to consider a constitutional amendment years in the making — for the water they drink and for the very air they breathe. The amendment to Article 1 of the state Constitution has now passed both houses of the state Legislature in consecutive two-year sessions, a requirement of the constitutional amendment process that culminates in a public vote. Concurrent Senate and Assembly bills proposing the amendment were passed in 2019, and were again passed in the Senate last month and the Assembly on Monday afternoon. A singular senten...