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It’s time to fall back, folks. The end of Daylight Saving Time arrives Sunday morning when we turn our clocks back an hour. The change actually happen...

ALBANY (TNS) — An attorney representing twoRensselaer Countygun owners told theU.S. Supreme Courton Wednesday that his clients had a "fundamental cons...

ALBANY (AP) — Workers facing layoffs in New York state now have a right to ask their employers instead to trim all workers’ hours and have unemploymen...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — The governors of four northeastern states agreed Thursday to share information about firearms purchases to help detect and investiga...

ALBANY — State Sen. George Borrello has introduced legislation requiring developers of industrial solar and wind farms to provide a reclamation bond t...

ROCHESTER — State Sen. George Borrello joined Senate Republican Leader Rob Ortt as well as law enforcement leaders and victims’ advocates Wednesday to...

SYRACUSE (TNS) — New York officials say an effort to force the state to allow religious exemptions to a Covid-19 vaccine mandate for health care worke...

ALBANY (TNS) — Attorney General Letitia James has informed the Joint Commission on Public Ethics that her office will not presently be able to investi...

ALBANY — City & State magazine named state Sen. George Borrello to its Agriculture Power 50 lis t for his efforts to make the Nourish NY farm-to-food ...

ALBANY (TNS) — Gov. Kathy Hochul is leaving the door open for a potential investigation into how former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo is spending roughly $18 m...

NEW YORK (TNS) — The city’s largest landlord organization asked a federal court Thursday to strike down Gov. Kathy Hochul’s statewide moratorium on ev...

Consider this an elegy for Roe v. Wade, a lamentation for the impending death of a law that has enabled millions of American women over the past half-...

ALBANY (TNS) — New Yorkers worried about not being able to pay rent because of the pandemic got an extension Wednesday as lawmakers earmarked more fin...

ALBANY — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is calling the state legislature into a special session Wednesday in hopes of extending an eviction moratorium for...

ALBANY — Resigning from office probably didn’t end former Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s legal problems, and no matter what happens next, taxpayers are likely to...

ALBANY (TNS) — Allegations of sexual harassment cost former Gov. Andrew Cuomo his job. Whether they can cost him his law license — or lead to any atto...

Officials with the Olean Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution and the Cattaraugus-Allegany League of Women Voters have announced that their se...

ALBANY — Gov. Kathy Hochul has selected Brian Benjamin, a state senator from New York City, as her choice for lieutenant governor, according to a pers...