The trip began with hopes for high returns: a shipment of a kilogram of cocaine and 150 bundles of heroin. That trip would end, however, with police quietly seizing all the drugs during a traffic stop.





To read the transcripts of calls about the alleged drug ring, included the alleged botched deal, click here.

A Colonie man has been accused of using a computer owned by the Albany International Airport to access Internet sites with child pornography while he was working at the airport.

A Lowe’s Home Improvement Warehouse approved last fall might get a little smaller.

When majority Democrats in the Schenectady County Legislature handed Ed Kosiur an $80,000 a year job as head of the county Youth Bureau Jan. 1, they promised he would make the agency “more robust.”

Every year trees fall.
In the best-case scenario, no one is hurt and no property is damaged.
But that isn’t always the case.

Michael Marotta has always maintained he uses his property in Pattersonville to store functioning construction vehicles for his business. Public officials disagreed, seeking fines and possible jail time for keeping a junkyard.

Scientists by the dozen continue to study different factors that could be causing the death of thousands of bats.

Former Schenectady police chief Greg Kaczmarek participated in calls to alleged drug kingpin Kerry Kirkem, offering to go to Long Island to get cocaine in time for his birthday, according to wiretap transcripts obtained by The Daily Gazette.

The city Republican Committee is planning for a long rebuilding process as it tries to become competitive in Schenectady politics again.

The New York Buzz World Team Tennis will move to Albany’s Washington Avenue Armory from its longtime home, Central Park in Schenectady, officials announced Thursday.

The city’s latest example of extreme historic preservation had a crowd of Stockaders digging up sidewalk bricks this week.

A 13-month drug investigation culminated Thursday in the indictment of 24 people on drug charges, including the wife and stepson of a former Schenectady police chief.

A Schenectady man who for years stymied a police investigation into the shooting death of a young woman in his car lost an appeal to reduce his lengthy prison term.

The streets have been a lot quieter since police doubled their patrols two weeks ago. There hasn’t been a single shot fired, said Public Safety Commissioner Wayne Bennett.

Former Schenectady police chief Gregory T. Kaczmarek, who became chief amid rumors of past drug use, now finds himself implicated in a wide-ranging drug operation.