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Careless, unprepared hikers put rescuers in danger, cost taxpayers money

Farm-raised birds are for sale online at D’Artagnan and other game sites. Around the holidays, Whole Foods Market and similar stores get them.

By Brett Samuels
Gazette Reporter

The race for New York’s 111th Assembly District is a rematch from 2014.

By Daniel Fitzsimmons
Gazette Reporter

The 19th Congressional District race has national implications with a ton of outside money being spent on both candidates, and according to polls, is among the closest in the state this election cycle.

A week before Election Day, warnings of a rigged vote, amplified largely by Trump himself, have led to anxiety across the country about the integrity of the electoral process.

Less than a week after being acquitted for his role in last winter's armed occupation of an Oregon federal wildlife refuge, Nevada rancher Ryan Bundy said another protest action will be justified if President Barack Obama goes ahead with plans to create a huge national monument abutting the Bundy family's ranch here.

By Steven Cook
Gazette Reporter

A judge this week ordered the second of two new Hulett Street arson-related perjury defendants held without bail pending trial, records show.

By John Cropley
Gazette Reporter

The end of the near-ban on commercial drone operation has opened a flood of potential uses for the remote-controlled aircraft and sparked wider interest in piloting them for money.

By Steven Cook
Gazette Reporter

Two longtime judges are seeking the state Supreme Court post in the district that includes Schenectady, Amsterdam and points north.

The pedestrian killed in a hit-and-run accident early Sunday morning died of multiple traumatic blunt force injuries, the Saratoga County Sheriff's Office said Tuesday.