{"id":201221,"date":"2026-04-17T21:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T21:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/201221\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T21:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T21:33:10","slug":"evening-briefing-in-capital-region-and-hv-april-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/201221\/","title":{"rendered":"Evening Briefing in Capital Region and HV: April 17"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good evening, Capital Region and Hudson Valley. We’re wrapping up the day for you with some of the most important stories you need to know and your weather outlook.<\/p>\n

Your Weather Planner<\/p>\n

Mostly clear skies are expected overnight with mild temperatures in the 50s starting off Saturday.<\/p>\n

Saturday will feature plenty of sunshine with highs in the 70s.<\/p>\n

We will watch a cold front advance from the west bringing a chance of rain late around 10PM to midnight lasting overnight into Sunday.<\/p>\n

Sunday will be colder in the 40s and 50s with rain, we do see temperatures drop to the point we could see some isolated snow mixing in by the afternoon and evening especially in higher elevations.<\/p>\n

Looking at next week things look much drier with plenty of sunshine.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow’s Forecast
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1.\u00a0Cohoes police officer charged with child sexual abuse material possession<\/a><\/p>\n

Michael Patterson, 40, has been arraigned and is being held at the Albany County Jail.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0Man whose 1998 conviction was overturned to sue state, city of Albany<\/a><\/p>\n

Corey Young’s 1998 conviction for attempted murder and aggravated assault of a police officer was recently overturned in Albany. Now his attorneys are set to file suit against both the state and the city.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0New York program to use to $125M to upgrade upstate multifamily housing<\/a><\/p>\n

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Thursday announced a new state measure aimed to help lower energy bills for upstate residents. Known as the AMP Up program, it will set aside $125 million to upgrade affordable multi-family housing.<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0Things to do in Capital Region, Hudson Valley this weekend: World Circus Day celebration<\/a><\/p>\n

Here are some suggestions for events and activities happening this weekend in the Capital Region and Hudson Valley, and the\u00a0weather report<\/a>\u00a0to help with planning.<\/p>\n

5.\u00a0Senate extends surveillance powers until April 30 after chaotic votes in House<\/a><\/p>\n

The Senate approved a short-term renewal until April 30 of a controversial surveillance program used by U.S. spy agencies, following a chaotic, post-midnight scramble in the House to keep the authority from expiring.<\/p>\n

6.\u00a0Iran reopens Strait of Hormuz, but Trump says blockade on Iranian ships and ports will stay in force<\/a><\/p>\n

Iran said Friday it fully reopened the Strait of Hormuz to commercial vessels, but President Donald Trump said the American blockade on Iranian ships and ports “will remain in full force” until Tehran reaches a deal with the U.S., including on its nuclear program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good evening, Capital Region and Hudson Valley. We’re wrapping up the day for you with some of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[206,268,25,256,13933,199,269,9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-201221","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-albany-capital-region","9":"tag-app-evening-briefing","10":"tag-app-top-stories","11":"tag-capital-region","12":"tag-dennis-yusko","13":"tag-hudson-valley","14":"tag-matthew-sprague","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-headlines","17":"tag-new-york-news","18":"tag-new-york-state","19":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","20":"tag-new-york-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}