NY State News

NEW YORK — More than 77,000 people have signed an online petition calling for New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani to be barred from attending events ne...

With National Safe Digging Day — or 811 Day — coming up on Tuesday, National Fuel reminds homeowners and professional contractors to call before you d...

New York's push to unmask ICE agents is on hold after a federal judge blocked provisions of a newly minted state law that restricts local cooperation ...

An overwhelming majority of New Yorkers support federal efforts to crack down on fraud in the state's public benefit programs, according to a new poll...

Aaron Gies, Democratic candidate for Congress in New York’s 23rd District, has announced  100 town hall events are planned for a tour across the distr...

Hadi Matar was convicted Wednesday of federal terrorism charges in the 2022 stabbing of Salman Rushdie, the author who has faced a decades-old death t...

SALAMANCA — The Salamanca City Central School District Friday announced a pause on plans to introduce a humanoid AI robot to its high school technolog...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Four years after being stabbed on an amphitheater stage, Salman Rushdie sat across a courtroom from his convicted attacker Thursd...

U.S. Sen. Kirsten E. Gillibrand's legislation that would reauthorize a discontinued series of programs for older Americans has passed in the Senate, a...

Despite burning hundreds of miles away, Canadian wildfires have become a familiar source of disruption in New York state. Air quality advisories. A sp...

BUFFALO — The man convicted of trying to kill Salman Rushdie spent years researching the writer's whereabouts before stabbing him on a lecture stage, ...

U.S. Rep. Nick Langworthy joined with a Democratic colleague Tuesday to introduce legislation meant to streamline the federal permitting process for h...

A group of New York Democratic lawmakers is demanding that the state's congressional delegation support a proposal to "abolish" ICE, citing the federa...

SALAMANCA — State Senator George Borrello honored Seneca Nation Councilor Tina Abrams as the 57th District’s 2026 New York State Senate Woman of Disti...

Catholic Charities of Buffalo says its 2026 Appeal raised more than 91% of its $8 million goal. Running from Jan. 1 through June 30, Appeal 2026 raise...

ALBANY (TNS) — A report by state Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli warns that the state's fiscal budget shows signs of instability, with incoming revenue...

NEW YORK (AP) — No large data centers can be built in New York for up to a year as the state creates rules to protect the environment and its energy g...

The New York State Department of Health reminds residents to protect their skin from ultraviolet radiation this summer. Skin cancer, caused by UV rays...