Dutchess County

An attempt by local Democratic officials to create a website attacking Gov. Andrew Cuomo's challenger backfired after Republican candidate Marc Molinaro's campaign bought the site and reconfigured it to redirect traffic to an anti-Cuomo website.

The New York attorney general's office is investigating the fatal shooting of a restaurant owner by a state trooper during a confrontation outside the businessman's Hudson Valley eatery.

State police say a person shot by a trooper during a confrontation in the Hudson Valley has died of their injuries.

In New York state government news, candidates for statewide office are taking their message to the state's leading business advocacy organization.

An upstate New York man has pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the fatal stabbing of a Westchester man during a road rage incident.

State police say a 7-year-old boy has died in a fire that destroyed a house in upstate New York.

Authorities say a man's body has been found along the Hudson River in upstate New York where a man disappeared last week while swimming with friends.

Popular ridgetop hiking trails and forest habitat will be preserved with the acquisition of a tract in the Hudson Highlands that's prominently visible from the Hudson River and many public areas including the Newburgh waterfront.

Republican candidate for governor Marc Molinaro is accusing Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo of violating a ban on political events on school property.

In a forceful rebuke to President Donald Trump and other Washington Republicans, former Vice President Joe Biden told fellow Democrats in New York on Thursday that the GOP has abandoned traditional American values in the name of "phony populism" and "fake nationalism."