New Paltz

Officials at the State University of New York at New Paltz have picked new names for campus buildings that were named for slave-owning families.

New York is bringing together ecologists, biologists and local and state officials to fight the growing problem of algae blooms in upstate ponds and lakes.

A group of upstate New York craft distilleries are banding together to release a new style of rye whiskey under the label Empire Rye.

ULSTER, N.Y. (AP) — State police says a trucker from Vermont has died after his rig rear-ended another on the New York State Thruway in the Hudson Valley, shutting down northbound traffic for about eight hours.

NEW PALTZ, N.Y. (AP) — Thirteen cases of mumps have now been confirmed at the State University of New York at New Paltz.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Students and staff at the University at Albany are mourning the death of a longtime math professor who died in a climbing accident in upstate New York.

NEW PALTZ, N.Y. (AP) — Officials at a Hudson Valley university say eight members of the school's intercollegiate swimming program have come down with the mumps.

NEW PALTZ, N.Y. (AP) — Sen. Bernie Sanders is heading to the Hudson Valley to rally for a fellow progressive champion running for a hotly contested congressional seat.