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Common Sense Media supports Hochul’s ‘bell-to-bell’ smartphone restraints

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Former corrections officers speak out after being fired for strike participation

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Clinton County Health Department and partners are monitoring Bird Flu

Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI)  Clinton County, March 11, 2025. The Clinton County Health Department (CCHD) and their local partners are working closely to monitor Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI), also known as H5N1 or bird flu, in Clinton County and to share educational messages with poultry and dairy farms and workers, health care providers, […]

Tariffs on Canadian electricity could mean higher costs for dirtier electricity in New York

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Agreement reached between DOCCS and NYSCOPBA, workers could return Monday

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Nearly 200 kids under 6 in NY went to ERs after exposure to cannabis last year

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State to offer $80 million for flood resiliency projects

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Onondaga County’s first wind farm stirs controversy: Who has power over giant turbines?

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Corrections officers fired as tentative deal fails to end wildcat strike

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Health insurance ending for corrections officers still on strike; National Guard still deployed

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Prison guards on strike have a list of complaints. Does NY’s deal address them?

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Mediator for state, union announces tentative agreement to end prison strikes

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New York State Police changing color of troopers’ patrol cars

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Labor relations expert weighs in on NY prison strikes

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Successful Youth Deer Hunting Pilot Program Report Released  

Feb. 14 – New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Interim Commissioner Sean Mahar announced another safe year of hunting seasons, with 2024-25 seasons being the second safest on record. DEC released its annual report documenting hunting-related shooting incidents (HRSIs) and tree stand/elevated hunting incidents and the numbers are consistent with the low incident […]

DOCCS, NYSCOPBA update ongoing mediation

Further updates expected in the coming days Click here for the Sun Community News story 

DOCCS serving striking corrections officers with ‘legal papers’

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New York Senate shuts down attempt to repeal the ‘HALT Act’

Sen. Dan Stec tried to repeal a law from 2022 that placed restrictions on solitary confinement. Click here for the MYNBC5 story 

New York correction officers pay docked for every day on strike

COs to be considered AWOL, lose state-sponsored health insurance for participating in “illegal job action.” Click here for the MYNBC5 story 

Days into prison guard strike at NY state prisons, inmates say they feel unsafe

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10 former prison guards charged in death of inmate Robert Brooks

Brooks was allegedly beaten by corrections officers at the Marcy correctional Facilty  Click here for the ABC News story 

COMMENTARY: What is going on at the Adirondack Park Agency?

Hostile work environment alleged  Opinion piece: Click for the Adirondack Almanac Commentary 

N.Y. readies National Guard amid prison strikes

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Corrections staff strike at Clinton and across the state

‘It’s not safe in there.’ Click here for the Sun Community News story 

Corrections officers hold strikes at Buffalo-area and Elmira-area prisons

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