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In January, after 14 failed roll call votes — during each of which he got fewer votes than Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries — Republican Kevin McCarthy...

WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is leading a bipartisan congressional delegation to China next week, traveling to the country amid h...

State Sen. George Borrello is turning into the litigious lawmaker all of a sudden. Twice in the span of three days it was Borrello’s legal arguments m...

ELLICOTTVILLE — Tina Zerbian, CEO of Connecting Communities in Action, received the Woman of Distinction Award for 2023 in the 57th Senate District Th...

Gov. Kathy Hochul and New York Democrats are once again snubbing voters and flouting the state Constitution, this time with their new “mail-in-on-dema...

State Sen. George Borrello joined 69 fellow senators and assemblymen Tuesday in sending a letter to Gov. Kathy Hochul urging her to sign the Cannabis ...

NEW YORK (TNS) — In a world where war is waging, disease is ravaging, poverty is crippling and homelessness is out of control, does it really matter a...

I first covered U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney in 2012, when he was “former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney,” then running for president. At the time, he was so...

SYRACUSE (TNS) — New York lawmakers will hold a fact-finding hearing next month to address the state’s troubled rollout of its legal cannabis industry...

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand on Thursday announced $3.56 million in federal funding for several fire depart...

Members of Congress returned to the U.S. Capitol this week after their August recess facing a familiar predicament of their own making: They are runni...

Reading references of Butch Butchello and the former Castle restaurant in State & Union remind John Wepasnick of his good ol’ days working at the popu...

It was Aug. 24, 2021, that, in the wake of Andrew Cuomo’s meltdown, Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul became Gov. Hochul, to shape her own record and legacy in Ne...

DELEVAN — New York’s two U.S. senators announced $3.64 million in federal funding for fire departments across Upstate New York, including funds to the...

If it “got late early” in the old majestic Yankee Stadium with its long shadows, as the famous Yogi Berra quote had it, it’s gotten late before about ...

IRVING — Several state, local and federal representatives spoke out over the weekend on what they called the negative environmental and economic impac...

Congressional Democrats returned home last week to tout new federal legislation intended to stop a surge in retail theft. It’s an interesting concept,...

U.S. senators are urging their leadership to address impending Medicaid cuts that would have a negative impact Olean General Hospital and Bradford Reg...