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NEW YORK — A majority of taxpayers feel they pay too much in taxes, with many saying that they receive a poor value in return, according to a new poll...

ALBANY — The U.S. Justice Department concluded former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed more than a dozen state employees, according to a s...

Legislators in New York have passed 24 election-related bills out of at least one chamber of the Legislature, more than all other state legislatures c...

ALBANY — State Sen. Tom O’Mara, ranking member on the Senate Finance Committee, said Monday that a monthlong series of public hearings on Gov. Kathy H...

ALBANY — State Sen. Tom O’Mara, ranking member on the Senate Finance Committee, said Monday that a monthlong series of public hearings on Gov. Kathy H...

With two funding bills passed just under the wire, the House under Speaker Mike Johnson has ensured that the federal government won’t run out of opera...

PORTVILLE — The village of Portville got good news on Thursday as Gov. Kathy Hochul’s office announced more than $5 million in new funding for improve...

State lawmakers representing Cattaraugus and parts of Allegany counties said they heard some good things in Gov. Kathy Hochul’s budget message Tuesday...

BUFFALO — Federal prosecutors said Friday that they will seek the death penalty against a white supremacist who killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo su...

OLEAN — The first formal steps to reviewing the city’s charter are now underway. This week, Mayor Bill Aiello reported that he had filed his list of c...

Rep. Nick Langworthy has called on U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin to resign following his failure to disclose his hospitalization. “Defense Se...

Anyone following how weak and passive the U.S. has been in the face of provocations from our adversaries in the Middle East might conclude that the se...

It was a page from the authoritarian state playbook: A high-ranking government official falls ill, yet the development is kept under wraps. Questions ...

NEW YORK (TNS) — As state lawmakers reconvene for a new legislative session , one of the tasks they’ll face is reviewing school governance at New York...

ALBANY — The state Department of Environmental Conservation encourages New Yorkers to review and comment on the development of proposed regulations th...

The governor gets the Legislature to minimize transparency of limited liability corporations as part of the year-end rush to sign or veto legislation....

Beyond the top stories of 2023, many other stories made the headlines. Here's a look at the honorable mentions in our community this past year. The le...

ALBANY (TNS) — The state’s 2021 Green Amendment, which says New Yorkers have a constitutional right to “clean air and water, and a healthful environme...