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NIAGARA FALLS (TNS) — There is general agreement that New York state needs to expand the number of Supreme Court justices to tackle a mammoth backlog ...

The recently passed 2025-26 budget was the latest in 15 years. One would think the extra time would have yielded better results, but the final product...

LITTLE VALLEY — The Cattaraugus County Legislature’s Finance Committee on Wednesday put its stamp on the tentative $272.4 million county budget for 20...

State Sen. George Borrello has focused during his campaign in the new 57th Senate District on telling people what he’s been able to accomplish in a sh...

Time and time again during the pandemic, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his successor, Gov. Kathy Hochul, invoked special executive powers in the name of a hea...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Republican state senators outvoted impassioned Democratic opposition late Thursday to advance a proposal to add language to the...

ALBANY — New York lawmakers have passed a milestone environmental measure designed to tap the brakes on the spread of cryptocurrency mining operations...

In a rousing win for New York’s voters, the state’s highest court invalidated the twisted district maps drawn by the Legislature’s Democratic supermaj...

ALBANY (TNS) — A recent Siena College poll released Monday found nearly 60% of registered voters are not happy with Gov. Kathy Hochul’s job performanc...

Just like that, tyranny has descended on Florida. The state legislature, with the support of Gov. Ron DeSantis, voted to repeal the “special independe...

The Supreme Court justices down in Washington just sent a clear message to a Supreme Court justice up in Steuben County: In assessing partisan redistr...

Just before the start of the New Year, Gov. Kathy Hochul vetoed a bill that would have allowed forest rangers and environmental conservation officers ...

ALBANY — New York’s Democrat-controlled Legislature will make key decisions in 2022 on everything from the roll-out of recreational marijuana sales to...

In September, the Cattaraugus County Legislature changed the mission statement of the county through ACT No. 329-2021, entitled OPPOSING INFRINGEMENTS...

After reading negative and critical comments on the Cattaraugus County Legislature’s decision not the enforce the governor’s likely illegal and uncons...

ALBANY (TNS) — The rejection of a constitutional amendment that would have tweaked the state’s troubled redistricting process has left reform advocate...

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 (AP) — A woman who accused New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo of inappropriate behavior added her voice to those criticizing state lawmakers for not pu...