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CUBA — Stacey Salgado of the state Department of Labor will give a presentation on employment rights and benefits in New York state at 1 p.m. Thursday...

Alle-Catt Wind Energy notched another win Tuesday when the New York State Board on Electric Generation Siting and the Environment denied a Cattaraugus...

NEW YORK (TNS) — One week out from the nominal deadline to approve the next state budget, Gov. Kathy Hochul and the Legislature are heading into a few...

ALBANY — State Attorney General Letitia James has announced that the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) will make its Election Protection Hotline av...

New York state’s news organizations and lawmakers came together at the state capital this week to demonstrate their support for a tax credit for journ...

ALBANY (TNS) — The state Cannabis Control Board voted Friday to waive licensing fees for the next two years for New York’s 279 cultivators, many of wh...

ALBANY — For more than a century, it has been a crime to cheat on your spouse in New York. But adultery may soon be legal in the Empire State thanks t...

U.S. Rep. Nick Langworthy has introduced the Protect Whistleblowers from Retribution Act meant to strengthen protection for whistleblowers within the ...

ALBANY — A New York appeals court has upheld the state’s “red flag” law against a legal challenge arguing that the gun confiscating process is unconst...

Barack Obama and Donald Trump have starkly different political beliefs, but they are similar in one fact — they both rose to popularity and ultimately...

Plenty of us have said it time and again over the past several years since former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Gov. Kathy Hochul and a State Legislature under a...

ALBANY — Natural gas drilling companies would be banned in New York from using an extraction method that involves injecting large amounts of liquified...

Progressives insist that Donald Trump will turn the United States into an authoritarian state if voters return him to the White House. They should pay...

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer — whom we knew back when he was Brooklyn Assemblyman Chuck Schumer and Congressman Chuck Schumer — wants Israel t...

WASHINGTON — Supreme Court justices appeared receptive Monday to National Rifle Association claims that a former New York state official violated its ...

The U.S. immigration system is broken. Voices on all sides of this debate can agree on that, if not where to cast the blame. But our need for economic...

ALBANY — A New York taxpayer watchdog group is urging state lawmakers to approve Gov. Kathy Hochul’s plan to throttle back school spending through a “...

A ProPublica investigation turned up shocking gaps in New York state’s guardianship system. A civil society should be judged on how it treats its most...