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LOUDONVILLE — Over the last two years, 24 percent of New Yorkers have been prescribed opioids for pain by a doctor, according to Part III of a Siena C...

ALBANY (AP) — Democrats won two special elections for the New York state Senate Tuesday but Republicans will remain in charge of the chamber after a k...

(TNS) Paul Ryan didn’t want to be speaker of House. He grew to hate the job when serving with President Donald Trump. The 48-year-old Republican’s ann...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican majority in Congress was on a glide path to the midterms, having passed tax cuts into law and backed off budget battl...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats and Republicans each want to wield the stalemate between President Donald Trump and Congress over immigration as a weapon ...

State Senate Democrats repaired a rift Wednesday that could further liberal priorities in Albany — and drop Sen. Catharine Young from a majority posit...

ALBANY (AP) — Republican Marc Molinaro vowed Monday to change what he called Albany's climate of corruption and behind-closed-doors deals as he formal...

(TNS) Perhaps you missed President Donald Trump’s shifty little political move last week on that massive congressional spending bill. Be assured thoug...

WASHINGTON (AP) — More Republicans are telling President Donald Trump in ever blunter terms to lay off his escalating criticism of special counsel Rob...

Five Cattaraugus County villages have elections Tuesday, but the only contest will be in Cattaraugus where three candidates are running for two truste...

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo is using the Florida school shooting as a springboard to launch attack ads against seven New York GOP congressional members...

CARNEGIE, Pa. (AP) — Shadowed by the Trump presidency and the potential impact of a special election in a midterm year, voters in a western Pennsylvan...

(TNS) Less than two weeks ago, President Donald Trump came up with a name for congressional Republicans who wouldn’t support higher age limits for any...

ALBANY — The Republican minority leader of the Assembly, who had been a candidate for governor himself a month ago, endorsed Dutchess County Executive...

WASHINGTON (AP) — It started as a bipartisan attempt to curb soaring health care premiums. But Congress' effort to stabilize the nation's insurance ma...

In the week since Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro indicated he would seek the Republican nomination for New York governor, some of his support...

Candidate Donald Trump’s promises to “drain the swamp” seem so long ago. These days, President Trump’s White House is looking absolutely swamped. And ...

For Senate Democrats, voting against the Republican tax cuts that President Donald Trump signed into law wasn’t opposition enough. Now they have a pla...