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On Monday, the Senate and Assembly each passed a fifth extender for the New York state budget, which by law must be approved and signed by the governo...

ALBANY — New York’s Senate confirmed Rowan Wilson as the state’s first Black chief judge Tuesday, two months after lawmakers dealt Gov. Kathy Hochul a...

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ALBANY (TNS) — A bill that would authorize “overdose prevention centers” was passed by the state Assembly’s health committee earlier this week, giving...

The migratory swallows that famously return on the same day each year to Capistrano, California, were due Sunday. Another perennial event, in this cas...

ALBANY (TNS) — Republican lawmakers pressed their Democratic colleagues on spending, debt and public safety Thursday as the Senate and Assembly approv...

ALBANY — State Sen. George Borrello, R-Sunset Bay, has been approved to serve as a member of the Public Authorities Control Board (PACB), a five-membe...

Heard of the malady termed “do-somethingism”? Certain elected officials are particularly susceptible, especially after a much-publicized disaster. It ...

ALBANY — Following his advocacy to include barns and agricultural facilities in the list of buildings that will be exempt from the natural gas bans pr...

ALBANY (TNS) — Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor Kathy Sheehan stood on the stage at The Barn in Arbor Hill last week as they showed off a shining example o...

ALBANY — New York State Senate Republicans unveiled Monday a package of energy policies to pursue a cleaner energy future — putting, they said, afford...

ALBANY — State Sen. George Borrello called on Gov. Kathy Hochul restore up to $1 billion in Enhanced Federal Medicaid Percentage (eFMAP) funding for c...

If any issue can bring notoriously polarized Washington together across party lines — and should — it is the need to protect America’s children from s...

WASHINGTON — When Patrick Kennedy was in Congress, he would sneak in his treatments for substance abuse over the holidays, in between congressional wo...

WASHINGTON — Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. John Fetterman, still recovering from a stroke, has checked himself into Walter Reed National Military Medic...

ALBANY (TNS) — The nomination of Justice Hector D. LaSalle to serve as chief judge of the state Court of Appeals was rejected 39-20 in an unexpected v...

Someone had to sue to force the derelict New York State Senate to fulfill its clear legal duty under the state Constitution and New York statute to vo...

ALBANY — A measure sponsored by state Sen. George Borrello that would give more flexibility to retirees in the New York State Teachers Retirement Syst...