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ALBANY — New York cannot cut down thousands of trees for a 27-mile snowmobile trail in the Adirondack Park without voters approving an amendment to th...

ALBANY (TNS) — The state’s top judge says all New York judges and their staffs are expected to be back to working at their assigned courthouses in thr...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — When word spread about President Joe Biden’s proposed tax increases in the American Families Plan, tax preparers and financial plan...

MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesotans spent 18 months worrying over whether the 2020 censu s would finally cost them a precious seat in Congress, expecting to los...

EAST SYRACUSE (TNS) — New York’s Republicans aim to get behind one gubernatorial candidate in June, an effort to jumpstart fundraising and campaigning...

ALBANY — New Yorkers will no longer have to buy a jelly sandwich, chips or other snack with their beer under an executive order that state lawmakers r...

ALBANY — To protect the ecology of freshwater lakes, clean water supplies and national security, state Sen. George Borrello has introduced legislation...

NEW YORK — New York will lose one seat in Congress as a result of national population shifts, according to census data released Monday — a loss that m...

BELMONT — A new COVID-19-related death among Allegany County residents was reported Monday as the county falls further behind the rest of the state fo...

ALBANY — In his first face-to-face encounter with journalists in month s, Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Monday flatly denied he had done anything inappropriate...

ALBANY (TNS) — Under new legislation introduced in the state Senate, police officers from other states who resigned or were fired due to misconduct al...

ALBANY — State Sen. George Borrello and fellow Republicans continued to bash the so-called “repeal” of the governors emergency powers during the coron...

NEW YORK (TNS) — New York at some point will run into problems with Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy, but the state isn’t there yet, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said ...

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office said it won’t reveal what it told the U.S. Justice Department about COVID-19 outbreaks in nursing homes, partly be...

IRVING — The Seneca Nation is asking a federal court to suspend all proceedings concerning the Seneca Gaming Compact payments for 45 days. This comes ...

EAST ROCKAWAY (TNS) — COVID-19 hospitalizations in New York continued falling Wednesday, reaching their lowest level since Nov. 29. Hospitalizations f...

ALBANY (TNS) — Lawmakers and advocacy groups are calling for restrictions on how New York uses future opioid settlement funds after discovering that m...

OLEAN — The Cattaraugus County Department of Social Services will continue to accept applications for Home Energy Assistance Program, or HEAP, through...