Governor David Paterson announced on Monday that New York might generate up to 50,000 jobs by allocating 45% of its electricity needs to environmentally friendly sources by 2015.

By Ben Dobbin The world's biggest pasta maker is teaming up with an Iowa distributor to build a $96.2 million plant employing 120 people in a predominantly rural county near Rochester that was recently awarded its first business zone offering state tax breaks.

By Jonathan D. Epstein, The Buffalo News, N.Y. Jan. 4--Gov. George E. Pataki and other state officials on Tuesday awarded Livingston County one of three new Empire Zones, giving the rural county east of Buffalo a new leg up in its efforts to attract several manufacturers.