One month after the 2024 election, around 200 people gathered at the Southside Community Center for the Ithaca Organizing Fair, attempting to figure out what comes next.

Schools will have to relocate students if classroom temperatures climb above 88 degrees. Climate change is leading to more high-heat days statewide.

The Binghamton City Council voted unanimously to approve the zoning reform legislation Wednesday. In recent years, cities across the country have implemented zoning reform to ease restrictions on housing development.

Eligible New Yorkers can receive up to $14,000 for energy saving upgrades, like installing insulation.

Housing advocates and organizers gathered in downtown Binghamton Saturday, handing out hot food, warm clothes, and harm reduction supplies like fentanyl test strips and the overdose-reversing drug naloxone.

Public discussions on the budget have been going back and forth between the legislature and the county executive since Nov. 8.

Activists staged a three-day protest, including a sit-in, at the Capitol building demanding Gov. Kathy Hochul sign a bill that would make oil and gas companies pay for climate damages.

The law puts a limit to how much landlords can raise rent at one time. It also limits the reasons a landlord could refuse to renew a tenant’s lease.

A man recently died in Ithaca after sleeping outside in freezing conditions. Some outreach workers say they can protect others in his position.

PFAS has been linked to health issues, including some cancers, and has been found in waterways adjacent to landspreading in Steuben County. County officials are looking into how to address concerns about contamination.