{"id":214588,"date":"2026-04-29T21:11:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T21:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/214588\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T21:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T21:11:09","slug":"evening-briefing-in-capital-region-and-hv-april-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/214588\/","title":{"rendered":"Evening Briefing in Capital Region and HV: April 29"},"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

Tonight will be cloudy and damp with widespread rain and lows in the mid-to-upper 40s. <\/p>\n

Thursday will feature morning showers with drier weather by the afternoon. Not much sun is expected and it\u2019ll be cool and breezy with highs mostly in the 50s. <\/p>\n

Friday morning sun will give way to afternoon clouds and pop-up showers. Daytime highs will range from the mid 50s to around 60.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow’s Forecast
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1.\u00a0New Albany law authorizes city to seize vehicles involved in drag racing<\/a><\/p>\n

An Albany local law signed Wednesday by Mayor Dorcey Applyrs allows the city to investigate and penalize unlawful speed contests, or drag racing.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0Local sales tax collections in New York up 5.1% in first quarter of 2026, report says<\/a><\/p>\n

Collections totaled $6.1 billion during the period between January and March, state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli said.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0Senior hockey players lace up for critically ill children at Capital Cup for Kids<\/a><\/p>\n

Hundreds of hockey players \u2014 some in their 60s, 70s and 80s \u2014 are competing in a 10-day tournament at a Capital Region rink, raising money for local families caring for critically ill children.<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0Kingston moves ahead with Route 9W reconfiguration process<\/a><\/p>\n

The city has released a request for proposals for a multidisciplinary consultant for the 9W Reconfiguration Study, which includes plans to reduce the 9W highway from four to two lanes.<\/p>\n

5.\u00a0Hegseth testifies to House committee about Pentagon’s budget proposal, Iran war<\/a><\/p>\n

Democrats on the committee are expected to focus on the rising costs of the war, the drawdown of critical U.S. munitions and the\u00a0bombing of a school<\/a>\u00a0that killed more than 165 people, many of them children, in the opening hours of the conflict.<\/p>\n

6.\u00a0Supreme Court voids majority Black congressional district in Louisiana, boosting Republican chances<\/a><\/p>\n

The Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down Louisiana’s second majority Black congressional district in a decision that could open the door for Republican-led states to eliminate Black and Latino electoral districts that tend to favor Democrats and affect the balance of power in Congress.<\/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":214589,"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":["post-214588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-albany-capital-region","tag-app-evening-briefing","tag-app-top-stories","tag-capital-region","tag-dennis-yusko","tag-hudson-valley","tag-matthew-sprague","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214588","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=214588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}