NY State News

The 2025-26 holiday deer hunt opens Friday and runs through Jan. 1 across most of New York’s Southern Zone, which includes Cattaraugus and Allegany co...

U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is demanding stronger safeguards to protect seniors from financial scams amid a surge in fraud during the holiday season....

UTICA (AP) — A former New York state prison guard convicted of murder for his role in the brutal beating of an inmate that was captured on body-camera...

SYRACUSE (TNS) — Each year for 27 years, U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer has heard from New Yorkers about their struggles, fears, hopes and successes as he ...

ALBANY (TNS) — Renewable energy advocates want the New York Power Authority to take greater responsibility and bolder action to meet clean energy targ...

Assemblyman Joe Sempolinski says the governor's intention to sign into law medical aid in dying — what he calls assisted suicide — is "tragic." Gov. K...

Gov. Kathy Hochul maintains double-digit leads over U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik and Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman in potential races for governo...

ALBANY (TNS) — A more than 1,000-page state Energy Plan finalized by state officials on Tuesday included a slogan that has become a new catchphrase on...

NEW YORK — UPS stole tens of millions of dollars in pay from seasonal workers who help the shipping giant deliver packages during the busy holiday sea...

The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation Monday that would allow schools the option of serving whole, 2%, 1% and skim-flavored or plain mi...

BINGHAMTON — New York State Electric & Gas has commissioned two new mobile substations, bringing the total fleet to 24 active mobile substations betwe...

LITTLE VALLEY — Ely Samuel Parker, a Seneca leader and Civil War officer serving under Ulysses S. Grant who was posthumously admitted to the New York ...

ALBANY — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is weighing plans to regulate the state's artificial intelligence sector, even as President Donald Trump seeks to ...

New York routinely issues commercial driver's licenses to immigrants that may be valid long after they are legally authorized to be in the country, U....

BELMONT — Allegany County lawmakers unanimously adopted a local law establishing a county Animal Abuser Registry, which will identify individuals who ...

A Dansville woman who allegedly threatening to kill President Donald Trump and others was charged for threatening law enforcement personnel who came t...

ALBANY (TNS) — Democrats in New York have been trying to achieve universal access to affordable child care in the state for years, but have so far fai...

ALBANY — New York’s top cannabis official has resigned at Gov. Kathy Hochul’s request after the withdrawal of a major state enforcement case against a...