election 2014

At least two local legislators are issuing a challenge to one gubernatorial candidate, and in so doing are proving that the fight to support Utica, and the emerging nanotechnology industry in the Mohawk Valley, is crossing party lines.

Community activist Tim Trent is announcing his candidacy for Utica Common Council at large as the Conservative Party candidate.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House and Senate are controlled by different political parties, but both are spending time these days on similar paths: debating measures that everyone knows are going nowhere.

ATLANTA (AP) — If Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal wants to win re-election, he's got to weather more attacks over alleged ethics violations.

Today is primary day across New York.
Voters will head to the polls to decide on candidates in a number of races.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers are streaming back to Capitol Hill this week for an abbreviated September session after their summer break.

A ruling by a State Supreme Court Judge in Rome today has upheld a claim by two Utica councilmen stating that Jim Zecca cannot run in this November's special election for the Common Council at Large position.

City Councilman Frank Vescera and former Councilman and Comptroller candidate James Zecca have been denied permission to appeal a recent court ruling that deemed them ineligible to appear on the ballot on the Democratic party line during Tuesday’s primary.

You may be very unfamiliar with Governor Andrew Cuomo's two Democratic primary opponents this fall. Here is a closer look at the candidate who you've probably already written off.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Former Alaska Attorney General Dan Sullivan has won the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in Alaska.