ALBANY (AP) - An Underground Railroad history group has received a $350,000 grant to help its ongoing restoration of an Albany home that harbored fugitive slaves in the mid-19th century.

Paul Stewart, co-founder of the Underground Railroad History Project of the Capital Region, told the Times Union of Albany that the grant from the state Environmental Protection Fund came through in March. So far, the group has raised $600,000 to restore the former home of Stephen Myers, a freed slave who was a leader in Albany's abolitionist movement before the Civil War.

The group says the home was owned by one of Albany's lumber boat captains, who were known to help fugitive slaves make their way north.

The Underground Railroad History Project is holding its 10th annual conference beginning Friday at Russell Sage College in nearby Troy.

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U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand has put her Columbia County house up for sale.

She and her husband are asking for nearly $1.5 million.

A spokesperson for the senator says they want to move closer to Albany where she grew up and has family.

Gillibrand and her husband are raising two young sons and rent another home in Washington, D.C.

ALBANY - The State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse says women are more prone to addiction than men. More than 4,600 women in the Capital Region were admitted to addiction treatment programs last year.

A new addiction treatment facility for women opened this morning.

Commissioner Karen M. Carpenter-Palumbo officially opened the doors to the newly renovated addiction treatment program. 

This home, furnished and operated by The Next Step, Inc., will provide long-term intensive residential treatment for women in a safe and nurturing environment. 

It's located on 2 Holland Avenue in Albany.