Two hours north of fast-paced New York City, the idyllic Hudson River Valley hides some of the state's most overlooked and beautiful small towns in the state. City dwellers often head to Manhattan's ...

The David Hudson House, built in 1806, also served as the community’s first legal saloon when David Hudson obtained a license in 1814 to legally dispense spirits at his home here on North Main Street.

For millennia before steamships busied the river’s waters, Native Americans roved it in dugout canoes, spearing sturgeons known to fly into the air like birds. The Hudson River’s restless ribbon cuts ...

The English explorer sailed upriver on Sept. 3, 1609. Here is what the valley looked like for millennia before that. Native peoples found 7-pound oysters here. Dutch Patroons lived here. It has been a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A sign warning people not to eat the fish and crabs from the Hudson River is seen on a post at the Rensselaer boat launch on ...

HUDSON — In conjunction with the library’s current exhibit, “Hudson: A History of Whaling & Maritime Commerce,” the Hudson Area Library History Room staff are offering a teacher workshop on Wednesday, ...

Father Frank J. Alagna, founder of the Ulster Immigrant Defense Network, practiced what he preached. He leaves an extraordinary legacy of fighting for justice. From the 1950s to ’80s, small downstate ...