legislation

SYRACUSE (TNS) — A bill currently making its way through New York’s state legislature would allow medical cannabis patients from other states to buy w...

NEW YORK (TNS) — It just got harder for the Supreme Court to save Donald Trump from criminal prosecution for his involvement with the violence at the ...

The Senate immigration compromise crumbled away just days after its birth. Many conservatives said it doesn’t go far enough to stem border chaos, whil...

Joe Biden is supposed to know something about legislating. After all, he spent 36 years in the U.S. Senate. He must have learned something in those de...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Accusations that migrants beat NYPD officers late last month and the arrest Monday of five other migrants in a string of brazen moped...

BUFFALO (AP) — A man who sued Buffalo police after being ticketed for shouting at an officer to turn on his headlights can move forward with his legal...

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court delivered a victory to abortion-rights advocates in directing a lower court to consider a challenge to the state’s 1982...

Perhaps the most head-spinning statement of the Biden years came about a week ago when President Joe Biden endorsed an impending Senate immigration de...

A U.S. Senate compromise meant to hold back the tide of illegal immigration on the southern border was rejected by U.S. Rep. Nick Langworthy on Monday...

WASHINGTON — Facing a torrent of criticism from conservatives, Senate Republicans on Monday resisted advancing on a bipartisan proposal intended to cl...

NEW YORK (TNS) — A state judge on Monday upheld a law expanding New York’s early voting period to allow widespread balloting by mail, ruling against R...

ALBANY (TNS) — Some bits and pieces rattling around my head during the depths of an Upstate New York winter... • Former NRA honcho Wayne LaPierre is a...

It’s looking more and more like New York got mobile sports betting right. Wish we could say the same for the rollout of recreational cannabis. Gov. Ka...

The Commission on Judicial Conduct deserves more funding than Gov. Hochul proposed for it. The work of the Commission on Judicial Conduct is vital to ...

What do you call it when somewhere between 6 and 8 million people enter the United States illegally in the course of three years? Many people would ca...

The New York State Farm Bureau president said Tuesday that full funding for agriculture programs in the state budget is the bureau’s top priority for ...

ALBANY — New York will expand its legal definition of rape to include various forms of nonconsensual sexual contact, under a bill signed into law by G...

Budget adoption season is underway at the State Capitol, which means, first, that joint Senate-Assembly public hearings on Gov. Kathy Hochul’s 2024-25...