NY State News

ALBANY (TNS) — Utility companies in New York are being targeted over the state's rapidly rising energy bills by Gov. Kathy Hochul, who proposed a seri...

WASHINGTON — Two senators from opposite parties are joining forces in a renewed push to ban members of Congress from trading stocks, an effort that ha...

President Donald Trump signed the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act of 2025 into law on Wednesday, giving schools flexibility to offer flavored and unfl...

NEW YORK — New York State Dairy Ambassador Olivia Shawley, the former Cattaraugus County Dairy Ambassador, proudly represented New York’s dairy commun...

ALBANY (TNS) — Gov. Kathy Hochul plans to scale back environmental regulations to make it faster and cheaper to build housing in New York, an effort m...

NIAGARA FALLS (TNS) — The identification of a gray wolf in Otsego County several years ago has received additional attention in recent weeks, with the...

State Sen. George Borrello said Gov. Kathy Hochul rightly focused on affordability in her 2026 State of the State address on Tuesday in Albany. He eve...

ALBANY — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul used her annual State of the State address Tuesday to unveil a reelection year agenda aimed at bridging divides in...

A federal judge ruled Monday that work on a major offshore wind farm for Rhode Island and Connecticut can resume, handing the industry at least a temp...

Doctored photos and video footage and ads twisting candidates’ words have been used for decades in political campaigns, but the rise of artificial int...

A multiagency law enforcement operation, Operation Salvo, was launched in New York after an off-duty Customs and Border Protection officer was shot in...

ALBANY -- Check the junk drawer, the pile of Christmas cards and that one spot behind the couch where things always fall down for gift cards before th...

Citing threats against himself and his staff, U.S. Rep. Nick Langworthy announced Sunday night that his Jamestown office will remain closed. “The safe...

Langworthy eager to see Senate solution Amid other signs of division in the Republican Party this week, GOP members in the U.S. House boosted a Democr...

LATHAM — An Air Guard major general, who started as an enlisted airman and served in the Persian Gulf War, Iraq and Afghanistan, assumed command of th...

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has released a draft commissioner policy to improve access to the outdoors for people with...

ALBANY -- The state reported that two area railroads will be among dozens statewide to receive $101 million in grants for upgrades. On Friday, Gov. Ka...

WELLSVILLE — Although a January thaw is upon us, the Southern Tier likely isn't finished with winter and there is still plenty of plowing and shovelin...