Commentary: Debates about immigrants' place in America are far from new; in the 1820s, the Legislature weighed a proposal for ...

The Erie Canal was a transformative public works project in American history. Stretching 351 miles from Albany to Buffalo, ...

Two hundred years ago, Pennsylvania lawmakers arrived at the Capitol in a state of panic. Pennsylvania’s economic standing was jeopardized by the opening of the Erie Canal across New York State in the ...

A New York resident has won the top prize in the New York Lottery’s Million Dollar Raffle, officials announced Tuesday. Shaurna Walters, a Jamaica, Queens, resident, claimed the $1,000,000 prize as ...

Officials are designing new ways to protect the shorelines from sudden flooding and longer storm seasons. Officials are designing new ways to protect the shorelines from sudden flooding and longer ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — The man who drove a U-Haul into the Erie canal after a police chase last September, resulting in the death of his passenger, has pleaded guilty in Orleans County Court.

The decade’s most famous political compromise, the Missouri Compromise of 1820, admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine ...