Voters in a ring of congressional districts encircling New York City where Republican candidates often do well but Donald Trump struggled in 2020 could decide which party controls the U.S. House for the next two years.

Candidates for the 23rd Congressional District met for a debate in Elmira Thursday, hosted by local station WETM. Rep. Nick Langworthy, a Republican and a first-term incumbent, is looking to hold on to the seat he was elected to serve in 2022. Tom Carle is a first-time challenger on the ballot, who wants to put the district in the hands of the Democratic Party.

Sparks were flying Thursday evening in a debate between the candidates running for New York’s 19th Congressional District.

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Five years after the city of Ithaca passed its Green New Deal, city staff say they have decided to rewrite the city’s plan for how it will achieve its climate commitments.

Hamail Waddell, whose arrest by a Binghamton police officer was deemed an excessive use of force by the New York attorney general’s office, is facing charges of resisting arrest and disorderly conduct. The Binghamton city judge who heard testimony last week in the two-day bench trial is expected to deliver a verdict later this month.

New Yorkers will vote on a ballot measure in November that proponents say will “enshrine abortion” in the state’s constitution. But not all legal experts agree it’s that simple.

A law moving many town and county elections in New York to even-numbered years to align them with state and federal races was struck down by a state judge, providing a win to Republicans who claimed it was a partisan effort by Democrats to gain an electoral edge.

Wall Street profits increased more than 79 percent in the first of half of the year compared with the same period last year — and annual profits are expected to finish the year much stronger than 2023’s mark.