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New York state officials say they are making “great strides” in protecting the state’s bee population, which helps to pollinate $300 million in agricu...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s announcement last week that wedding receptions for up to 150 guests may resume on March 15 was welcome news to reception venues in...

ALBANY (TNS) — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s proposed financial plan, which supplants state education aid with federal COVID-19 relief dollars, steers school...

WASHINGTON (TNS)— Senate Majority LeaderCharles Schumertold business leaders inAlbanyFriday afternoon he thought vaccines could be distributed more qu...

ALBANY (TNS) — A day after a report criticized his administration for undercounting COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said attacks o...

The New York state budget proposed last week by Gov. Andrew Cuomo contains $450 million in revenue from Seneca Nation casino revenue sharing. The budg...

ALBANY — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday that he was erasing the handful of remaining “orange zones” in the state where tougher pandemic res...

By Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s estimate, New York faces a $15 billion budget shortfall. So why is the state so hesitant to look for revenue where it obviously...

ITHACA — The invasive round goby has impacted fisheries in the Great Lakes and the Finger Lakes by competing with native species and eating the eggs o...

ALBANY (TNS) — State education officials will submit a request for permission from the federal government to forgo state testing this spring in light ...

NEW YORK — Winter has brought New York’s worst stretch of the coronavirus crisis since May, with at least 4,800 dead from COVID-19 in the past 30 days...

ROCHESTER (AP) — Gov. Andrew Cuomo urged worshipers at three churches serving largely Black congregations to get vaccinated against COVID-19 as soon a...

OLEAN — Two Cattaraugus County men — one age 47 and the other 73 — died of COVID-19, county health officials reported Friday. The deaths bring to 70 t...

NEW YORK — A New York judge on Thursday denied the National Rifle Association’s bid to throw out a state lawsuit that seeks to put the powerful gun ad...

ALBANY (TNS) — A package of election reform bills passed the Democrat-controlled state Senate last wee k, which would make changes to absentee voting ...

ALBANY (TNS) — Workers acrossNew Yorkwould get up to four hours of paid leave to get two doses of COVID-19 vaccine under a proposal from Gov.Andrew Cu...

ALBANY (TNS) — New York appears very likely to become the 15th state to legalize mobile sports betting this year, as leaders from the Legislature and ...

ALBANY — Assemblyman Joseph Giglio wasn’t ready to get two proposed budgets from Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday as the governor unveiled a $103.4 billio...