Business, News, NY State News
Jan 10, 2025
ALBANY — After a slow rollout, New Yorkers have been flocking to pot shops since legalized weed became available for retail sales two years ago, and t...
Business, News, NY State News
Dec 16, 2024
ALBANY (TNS) — Cannabis processors and cultivators are urging Gov.Kathy Hochulto sign a bill that would restructure their tax filings to be on an annu...
Business, News, NY State News
Dec 29, 2022
NEW YORK — The first legal dispensary for recreational marijuana in New York rung up its first sales on Thursday, opening up what is expected to be on...
Business, News, NY State News, ...
Dec 21, 2022
NEW YORK (AP) — The first legal dispensary for recreational marijuana in New York is set to open Dec. 29, marking a long-awaited launch of a cannabis ...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Dec 18, 2022
There’s good news and bad news when it comes to teen drug and alcohol use. The good news is that fewer teens are drinking, a trend that has been stead...
Business, News, NY State News
Dec 11, 2022
ALBANY (TNS) — By bike, by vehicle or by scooter, New Yorkers will soon be able to order cannabis products to their doorsteps under a new delivery mod...
Business, News, NY State News, ...
Dec 07, 2022
JAMESTOWN (TNS) — In the early 1900s, the Chadakoin River powered Jamestown’s mills and factories, which in turn pumped out crescent wrenches, furnitu...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Dec 05, 2022
As unregulated cannabis retailers proliferate around New York at eye-popping rates, the beleaguered legal businesses that only began to receive recrea...
Business, News, NY State News, ...
Nov 21, 2022
NEW YORK (AP) — New York issued its first 36 cannabis dispensary licenses on Monday, taking a monumental step in establishing a legal — and lucrative ...
Business, News, NY State News
Nov 21, 2022
SYRACUSE (TNS) — Ahead of its big meeting tomorrow, New York’s Cannabis Control Board and the Office of Cannabis Management have released the much-ant...
Business, News
Nov 18, 2022
NEW YORK — Eager, anxious and frustrated, Yuri Krupitsky is waiting to find out whether he’ll get to open one of the first legal recreational marijuan...
News, NY State News
Sep 21, 2022
ALBANY (TNS) — Patients who use medical cannabis in New York will be permitted to grow up to three mature and three immature plants at home beginning ...
Business, News, NY State News
Aug 12, 2022
ALBANY (TNS) — Entrepreneurs hoping to handle New York’s first recreational cannabis sales will soon get their shot. On Thursday, state regulators ann...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Jul 25, 2022
Never mind that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is the lead sponsor. Never mind that 68% of Americans support legalizing marijuana , a figure tha...
News, NY State News
Jun 11, 2022
Possessing and consuming cannabis is now legal for those 21 and older, but there’s still confusion over what to do with the under-21 crowd. Saugerties...
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Apr 08, 2022
Despite some recent baby steps, the untangling of the federal government's enduring and preposterous opposition to cannabis as a medicine or recreatio...
Local Columnists, New York, Opinion
Mar 16, 2022
ALBANY (TNS) — A lot of terrible ideas and proposals have come out of the Capitol over the years — too many to count, really. But a plan announced las...
Opinion
Mar 14, 2022
In state after state that’s taken the leap to legalize recreational use of cannabis — doing so in large part to stop disproportionately dragging throu...
Commentary, Opinion
July 17, 2025
The summer job, for decades a stepping stone toward adulthood and independence, may be going the way of the VCR for a great many teens. Progressive ef...
Commentary, Opinion
July 17, 2025
Every now and then we just have to find a little bit of good news to celebrate. Today, we’re happy about shoes. Specifically, shoes you no longer have...
Commentary, Opinion
July 17, 2025
WASHINGTON (TNS) — President Donald Trump’s One Big, Beautiful Bill is not what you think it is. It’s not a stunt. It’s not a meme. It’s the most unmi...
Crime, Local News, News, ...
July 17, 2025
ALBANY — A pair of Democratic New York lawmakers have filed a bill that would prohibit federal authorities from wearing masks or concealing their iden...
Lifestyle, Lifestyles
July 17, 2025
The nice thing about a cultural institution like Superman is that there is a version of the character for everybody. If you grew up in the 1950s, Geor...
Local News, News, Western New York
July 17, 2025
Summer weather is heating up across the region. Amid hot temperatures and humidity, AAA Western and Central New York is reminding motorists to be awar...
