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ALBANY (TNS) — Gov. Kathy Hochul on Monday said that state inspectors will be used to help counties enforce a COVID-19 policy that she imposed recentl...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Voting rights advocates are pushing for the state Assembly to approve a bill that would ensure voters who cast affidavit ballots at t...

ALBANY (TNS) — The state attorney general’s office sent a letter to New York’s ethics commission on Thursday contending the panel did not issue a vali...

NEW YORK — New York City is poised to bar most new buildings from using natural gas in six years, after lawmakers voted Wednesday to make the nation’s...

ALBANY (AP) — Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo was ordered by New York’s ethics commission Tuesday to give up millions of dollars a publisher paid him to writ...

NEW YORK (TNS) — After serving as a lawmaker for more than half a century, Assemblyman Richard Gottfried will step down from the seat he first won in ...

OLEAN — Millions in state aid is expected to help redevelop the old Market Basket warehouse on East State Street into apartments. Gov. Kathy Hochul an...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court refused Monday to halt a COVID-19 vaccine requirement for health care workers in New York that does not offer an e...

ALBANY (TNS) — The Working Families Party, a thorn in former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s side during his decade running the state, is remaining one even af...

There was a prevailing feeling of optimism as I stood outside the Supreme Court with the sun warming us on a brisk late fall day as oral arguments in ...

NEW YORK — CNN fired anchor Chris Cuomo on Saturday less than a week after new information emerged about how he assisted his brother, former New York ...

DANSVILLE — State Sen. George Borrello and Assemblywoman Marjorie Byrnes hosted a roundtable on small business Wednesday to gather input on the challe...

NEW YORK (AP) — Multiple cases of the omicron coronavirus variant have been detected in New York, health officials said Thursday, including a man who ...

ROCHESTER (AP) — Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren said she had “no regrets” as she prepared Wednesday to leave office a month early after pleading guilty...

ALBANY — The League of Women Voters of New York State has received an anonymous $1 million donation to, according to the organization, “expand and str...

ALBANY (TNS) — The morning after the three Democratic candidates for governor spoke at a labor union rally in Manhattan earlier this month, Gov. Kathy...

BELMONT — Eight deaths and 287 more COVID-19 cases were reported in the last week in Allegany County, state and county health authorities reported Mon...

ALBANY — A legislative investigation released Monday found “overwhelming evidence” that former Gov. Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed women and that he o...