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To prepare for shutdowns, communities where correctional facilities are economic lifelines need time — and help from the state. New York’s prison popu...

The ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus opposed this year’s $1.7 trillion federal budget, urging lawmakers to vote against the bill and trigger a ...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Maybe I’m going out on a limb here, but the hapless House Republicans have finally achieved something big: an end to tit-for-tat im...

On Saturday, the capitals of four democracies were strengthened when the U.S. House finally passed long-stalled foreign-aid bills. The three overseas ...

ALBANY (TNS) — A payroll tax credit for local news outlets was included in New York’s budget passed this past weekend in an effort to keep publication...

BELMONT — Due to changes in New York state law, Allegany County is obligated to complete a process of redrawing district boundaries of the Allegany Co...

ALBANY (TNS) — Three weeks late, the state Legislature and Gov. Kathy Hochul completed months of negotiations to hammer out a $237 billion budget deal...

When Assemblyman Joseph Giglio walked out of the Capitol in Albany on Saturday, a thought struck him. “That’s the last state budget I’ll ever vote on,...

ALBANY (TNS) — There exists among many state lawmakers an unfortunate preference for control, an intolerance of deviation, an enjoyment of sameness. T...

ALBANY — New York lawmakers passed a $237 billion state budget Saturday that includes plans to spur housing construction and combat unlicensed marijua...

ALBANY — New York state lawmakers were on the verge of passing a $237 billion budget that includes sweeping plans to build housing, shutter unlicensed...

A group of eight Democratic progressive U.S. House members known as “The Squad” have filed $224 million of earmarks in the federal budget since 2023 t...

ALBANY — New York would expand access to booze by allowing movie theaters to sell liquor and continuing to let people buy takeout cocktails from bars ...

U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand has introduced the Long-Term Care Workforce Support Act, legislation that would address a nationwide shortage of long-ter...

ALBANY — The New York state Legislature’s bill drafting office was hit with an apparent cyberattack, officials said Wednesday. The scope of the attack...

NEW YORK — The first seven jurors for Donald Trump’s hush money trial were seated Tuesday after lawyers grilled the jury pool about their social media...

U.S. Rep. Nick Langworthy introduced legislation Tuesday meant to establish a legal framework that will assist law enforcement in preventing, detectin...

ALLEGANY — Recurring themes in the discussion at Monday evening’s Right Thinkers meeting was that the panelists have difficulty witnessing what they s...