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Byline: Lisa W. Foderaro From the rise in poaching to the waning of noise pollution, travel's shutdown is having profound effects. Which will remain, and which will vanish? For the [...]

From the rise in poaching to the waning of noise pollution, travel's shutdown is having profound effects. Which will remain, and which will vanish? For the planet, the year without [...]

HASTINGS-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. -- It used to snow here. Not all the time. Not like Vermont or the Adirondacks in upstate New York, where it snows on and off all winter, [...]

Thousands of dams across New York, many abandoned, are blocking fish migrations. A movement to remove them is growing. NEWBURGH, N.Y. -- For thousands of years, alewives and blueback herring [...]

Byline: Lisa W. Foderaro Frederick Law Olmsted's tours of English parks shaped his vision of landscape design. You can see his inspiration in three dimensions by touring five of them. [...]

Frederick Law Olmsted's tours of English parks shaped his vision of landscape design. You can see his inspiration in three dimensions by touring five of them. When Frederick Law Olmsted [...]

For more than a century, since agriculture and whaling gave way to tourism, Cape Cod in Massachusetts has attracted vacationers to its many miles of pristine beaches. For those wary [...]

Byline: Lisa W. Foderaro Wine-tasting, bird-watching, biking and gallery-hopping: In the Outer Cape towns of Eastham, Wellfleet and Truro, there's plenty to do both in and out of the water. [...]

Byline: Lisa W. Foderaro Rates From $150, with discounts for students, artists and caretakers. The Basics In lots of quirky ways, the new Revolution Hotel in Boston's South End transcends [...]

Rates From $150, with discounts for students, artists and caretakers. The Basics In lots of quirky ways, the new Revolution Hotel in Boston's South End transcends its budget niche with [...]

Charity Danso had confronted malaria before, but this time was different. The problem wasn't the disease; it was the cure.It was the spring of 2007 in Kumasi, her native city [...]

Days after 11 people were killed in a mass shooting inside a Pittsburgh synagogue, a new political mailer in a Connecticut legislative race is prompting accusations of anti-Semitism. The postcard, [...]

HARTFORD -- In races for governor across the nation, the specter of President Trump looms as a beacon of divisiveness, and Connecticut is no exception. Ned Lamont, the Democratic candidate [...]

In most any other election year, the four female Democratic candidates in New York trying to unseat House Republicans would draw little more than curiosity. But this year, as a [...]

SETAUKET, N.Y. -- When he took office in 2015, Lee M. Zeldin wasted no time in carving out a reputation as a conservative firebrand in Congress, taking caustic, hard-line positions [...]

It isn't often that a congressional candidate goes from relative obscurity to national prominence, with no effort or money expended. But that's what has happened to Nate McMurray, the Democratic [...]

ELMIRA, N.Y. -- There is a term that Representative Tom Reed uses for people like his Democratic opponent, Tracy Mitrano: extreme Ithaca liberal. Mr. Reed, a four-term Republican congressman, has [...]

PORT EWEN, N.Y. -- It has taken 12 years, but Antonio Delgado has finally received recognition for his brief career as a rap artist. All it took was for him [...]

Three days before a bitterly contested congressional primary, Representative Dan Donovan, the Republican incumbent, wanted to leave no doubt with voters at an anti-tax rally that he was the candidate [...]

BREWSTER, N.Y. -- Voters could be excused for feeling some unrequited love from Representative Sean Patrick Maloney. After all, Mr. Maloney, a three-term Democrat, has just come off an unsuccessful [...]

Representative Chris Collins, the New York Republican indicted on insider trading charges last month, reversed course on Monday and announced he would seek another term. Mr. Collins opted to stay [...]

Kathy Hochul, the lieutenant governor of New York, prevailed in the Democratic primary on Thursday, beating back a spirited challenge from Jumaane Williams, a three-term New York City councilman. As [...]

Money and power are no strangers to Senator Jeffrey D. Klein, so it should be no surprise that with his political life on the line, he is aggressively deploying both. [...]

After Representative Chris Collins was indicted last month, the Republican from western New York seemed to leave no doubt about his immediate political future: There was none. Mr. Collins abandoned [...]

SAYVILLE, N.Y. -- On the list of possibly endangered Republican House incumbents in New York, Representative Peter T. King would seem the least likely candidate to be extinguished in November. [...]

It was about a minute into Jahana Hayes's victory speech, which, to that point, consisted of two words -- ''Wow,'' she said twice, gathering her composure -- when she recalled [...]

The woman who was charged with causing her fiancé's death while the two kayaked on the Hudson River will receive some portion of his insurance money, under the terms of [...]

It was an offer she could, in fact, refuse. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a 28-year-old democratic socialist from New York who scored a shocking primary victory over Representative Joseph Crowley in June, [...]

Given the leftward tilt of the progressive groups that have sprung up across Central New York in the wake of the Trump presidency, Anthony Brindisi would seem an imperfect choice [...]

WATERTOWN, N.Y. -- On a sultry day at the Jefferson County Fair, Tedra Cobb, a Democratic nominee for Congress in New York's North Country, posed with alpacas, sampled fried dough [...]

GROTON, Conn. -- In the race for governor of Connecticut, there is one thing every candidate seems to agree on: The state's economy is in serious disrepair. ''Most folks on [...]

GROTON, Conn. -- In the race for governor of Connecticut, there is one thing every candidate seems to agree on: The state's economy is in serious disrepair. ''Most folks on [...]

So will Representative Joseph Crowley remain on the ballot in November, and challenge Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as a third-party candidate on the Working Families Party? That question, raised in an article [...]

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's political star has risen so high, she can win a primary election without trying -- or apparently even knowing. Last month, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, 28, unleashed a political tsunami [...]

For months, all the political oxygen in Staten Island was being consumed by the Republican showdown between Representative Dan Donovan and Michael Grimm, the former congressman and convicted tax felon. [...]

As New Yorkers go to the polls for the congressional primary on Tuesday, the ballots they cast will have a dubious distinction: Their state is the only in the nation [...]

They gathered inside the restaurant, in a section where every seat had a view of televisions about to show the toe-to-toe contest between the local man who made good and [...]

KINGSTON, N.Y. -- There has been a torrent of political messaging: television ads, radio spots and social media posts. Voters have been wooed by mailers, town-hall meetings and seemingly endless [...]

They argued over who is tougher on illegal immigration, who is more aligned with President Trump, and who voters might say is the bigger liar. The debate on Monday between [...]

On a neat block in the northwest corner of Staten Island, symbols of this borough's patriotism and unlikely affection for its fallen son dotted the street: American flags and the [...]

SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- As a first-time Democratic congressional candidate, Juanita Perez Williams would seem to check off many of her party's most prized boxes: female, person of color, military veteran [...]

Marcus J. Molinaro, a moderate county executive from the Hudson Valley, was formally designated on Wednesday as the Republican Party's choice to unseat Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, a two-term Democrat, [...]

JORDANVILLE, N.Y. -- The message last month sounded as if it came directly from a Donald J. Trump campaign speech, with references to draining the swamp and calls for the [...]

If the Republicans are to maintain their razor-thin edge in the New York State Senate in the November elections, they will now have to do so without the benefit of [...]

It was not quite the blue wave that Democrats in New York had hoped for, but the results of Tuesday's special elections in 11 state legislative seats did give the [...]

In a special election in New York that was thought to hold the key to Democrats' capturing the State Senate, Shelley B. Mayer, the Democratic candidate, sailed to victory in [...]

Special elections in New York on Tuesday will present voters with nearly a dozen state legislative races from Buffalo to Long Island, and could prove decisive in the Democrats' yearslong [...]

There have been millions of dollars in campaign spending. Churlish television ads. Allegations of ignoring sexual misconduct complaints. From the outset, it has been clear that Tuesday's special election in [...]

CALLICOON, N.Y. -- Across New York's Hudson Valley and points west, a sprawling demographic and cultural hodgepodge has emerged as a key battleground for the Democratic Party in its hope [...]

BRIDGEPORT, CONN. -- Joseph P. Ganim, the mayor of Connecticut's largest city, is selling a message of imperfection, but also redemption. He is the embodiment of the second chance: After [...]