A former Cohoes High School teacher’s aide was arrested after allegedly having a sexual relationship with a student.

New York State has implemented a cellphone ban in schools, requiring students to put away their devices for the entire school day, with the goal of improving student focus and mental health.

Families are spending hundreds of dollars on back-to-school shopping, how one local organization is trying to relieve the ...

The website offers a policy FAQ, an informational toolkit, and examples of existing policies to help districts develop their ...

A little more than half of adults in the U.S. who participated in a Pew Research Center survey expressed support for allowing ...

Alumni and former teachers and administrators of St. Kateri School in Irondequoit celebrated the school with a Mass and ...

Public schools have until Aug. 1 to publish their plans on how to enforce New York State's restrictions on smartphones in the classroom.

Gov. Scott is serving his fifth two-year term as governor of Vermont. Only in New Hampshire and Vermont do governors serve two-year terms, the other 48 states are all four years. It means a Vermont ...

Newcomers in this country should be treated with welcoming dignity and respect, as Mayor Adams and New York City did with the Roosevelt Hotel, which has just closed as the main arrival center for ...

United Way's new report on the Lower Hudson Valley's working poor paints a bleak picture, one that experts say is only going ...

The top finisher in the Democratic mayoral primary wants the city to issue $70 billion of additional affordable housing bonds ...

The Times Union's Capital Region Gives effort honors volunteers JoAnn Smith, Eric and Debbie Fagans and Denise Dunham in the month of June ...