ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- Happy Wednesday! Meteorologist Matt Mackie says it will be cool and cloudy with temperatures in the lower 40s and a chance for rain later.
NEWS10's Vanessa Blasi got an inside look at how the Albany Post Office is handling the holiday rush. Also, the puppy injured in the Windham plane crash is recovering. These stories, and more, are in your five things to know this morning.
The Albany Processing and Distribution Center is in its peak holiday rush season right now, with over 1.8 million packages processed in the last few weeks. That number is expected to grow by hundreds of thousands of packages before Christmas Eve — but how do they manage all of that?
The Animal Shelter of Schoharie Valley announced a promising update on one of the young dogs that survived a plane crash near Windham High Peak on November 24. After three weeks and multiple surgeries at a Connecticut veterinary hospital, Whiskey the Lab-mix puppy is on the mend as his recovery journey continues.
Each week the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) releases the “Forest Rangers Week in Review.” For the week of Dec. 9 to 16, forest rangers in Schoharie County searched for a reportedly, potentially depressed person in the Blenheim State Forest.
After an investigation by the Attorney General’s office, officials said prosecutors wouldn’t be able to disprove that an officer’s actions were justified in the shooting death of Nathan Wood in September 2023. A Johnstown officer shot Wood after he attacked two people and an officer with a hammer in an apartment on Washington Street.
The electoral college is a part of the presidential election process. It took place at the New York State Capitol on Tuesday.
