Newburgh Mayor Torrance Harvey recently spoke at the White House’s National Water Summit. The second-term Democrat spoke on a panel about the city’s efforts to identify and replace lead service lines throughout its water system. So far, Newburgh has allocated more than $1.6 million to create an inventory of lead service lines and begin the replacement process. The city is also still grappling with the fallout from the discovery of PFAS contamination in its water supply in 2016.
State and local health officials have had a bruising couple of years in New York, where COVID-19, monkeypox and poliovirus have all demanded acute...
Election season has come and gone, but another one is quickly approaching in New York’s North Country. We speak with WAMC's North Country Bureau...
We speak with New York Rep. George Latimer, a Democrat from the 16th district.