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For a bill that’s supposed to rescue struggling Americans and boost the economy in the midst of a worsening pandemic, the 11th-hour deal Congress agre...

ALBANY — New York is set to launch automatic voter registration and prohibit the use of facial recognition in schools under bills the governor signed ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The number of New Yorkers hospitalized with coronavirus has risen to the highest level since mid-May, according to state figures relea...

OLEAN — The city will benefit from a $32,750 grant to help catalog public trees and manage them into the future. On Friday, state Department of Enviro...

ALBANY (TNS)— Charities servingNew York'smost vulnerable are facing financial ruin as influential state lawmakers charge that the administration of Go...

WASHINGTON — Congressional negotiators closed in Wednesday on a $900 billion COVID-19 relief package that would deliver additional "paycheck protectio...

ALBANY (TNS) — New York plans to “advance” $1.5 billion to cash-strapped organizations and agencies as Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday he won’t consi...

ALBANY (TNS) —Members of the general public with underlying health conditions that make them especially vulnerable to COVID-19 could start getting vac...

ALBANY (TNS)— New Yorkers of all stripes were lining up behind state Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Basil Seggos amid news that...

November’s election revealed many things about our current political landscape, the most striking of which is that the Democratic coalition is not as ...

The first New Yorker, an ICU nurseat Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Queens, received her first of two doses of COVID-19 vaccine on Monday. Sandr...

ALBANY — Another 106 New Yorkers died Saturday from the coronavirus as hospitalizations continue to trend upward, Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office reported ...

ALBANY (TNS) — Gov. Andrew Cuomo has remained steadfast in his pursuit of federal aid to close the state’s multi-billion-dollar deficit, but state leg...

Pennsylvania moved Thursday to temporarily halt school sports and other extracurricular activities, close gyms, theaters and casinos, and ban indoor d...

ALBANY (TNS) — The pandemic this year has helped reverse a long trend of dwindling interest in hunting as the number of people taking New York state’s...

ALBANY — State Sen. George Borrello joined fellow Senate Republicans in calling on the governor to pause scheduled minimum wage increases on Long Isla...

ALBANY (TNS) — With the first shipment of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine expected to arrive in New York this weekend, Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday detail...

Allegany County health officials reported 12 new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, and while the county saw a surge of deaths in November, it’s been more ...