Albany News Updates Provided by News 10
Tuesday February 07, 2012 
New York's environment commissioner says the proposed state budget doesn't include money for regulating hydraulic fracturing because "considerable work" needs to be done on 61,000 public comments about the natural gas drilling technology.
A fifth-grade teacher in Vermont has pleaded not guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer.
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation is advising residents of Saratoga, Washington, and southern Warren counties to avoid burning brush in areas without snow on the ground due to the increased danger of wildfires.
The Albany County Sheriff's Department released results from the latest countywide STOP-DWI enforcement coinciding with Super Bowl Sunday.
One woman was injured after a fire broke out in a Schoharie home Tuesday morning.
A political adviser to President Barack Obama said Tuesday the administration didn't intend to "abridge anyone's religious freedom" with its regulation requiring church-affiliated employers to cover birth control for their workers.
A defense lawyer has urged New York's top court to require that judges set at least two forms of bail, which can include cash, bonds or a credit card, arguing that state law requires it.
The Director of Saratoga's Housing Authority Ed Spychaliski's salary has more than doubled in the past five-years and now he's at fault for an Apartment Complex with more than a dozen known units infested with bed bugs.
State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli praised Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposal as a continued plan for fiscal restraint, but along with top legislative leaders warned that the governor also wants to use the budget to grab power and reduce public oversight and accountability in the spending of billions of taxpayer dollars.
New Yorkers may notice increased helicopter activity in the coming weeks as National Grid undertakes its annual helicopter inspection of more than 6,000 miles of high-voltage transmission lines in upstate New York.
The New York State Senate Tuesday passed a bill that would ban certain criminal offenders from working on school buses.
An Albany man pleaded guilty to manslaughter on Tuesday for the death of another man he struck while fleeing from police in October 2011.
State Police are asking for the public's help in locating a Rensselaer County woman whose family has reported as missing.
Saratoga Springs police say the man serious injured in an early Monday morning accident on Route 29 has been upgraded to being in serious condition.
Expanding New York DNA Databank was the major issue at Schenectady City Hall Tuesday.
