A state Supreme Court judge in Steuben County will hear arguments March 14 on whether to throw out the state’s newly drawn congressional and state legislative districts. Republicans, who are challenging the lines, won a small victory when Judge Patrick McAllister this week agreed that the case could go forward. ...

Governor Kathy Hochul presents the New York State budget for fiscal year 2023. 

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul gives her first State of the State address Wednesday to a strictly limited audience as COVID-19 once again disrupts how the state functions and casts a shadow on the usually festive event at the State Capitol. Hochul, who just two months ago was urging all ...

Questions emerged Monday over whether new mask and vaccination requirements imposed by Gov. Kathy Hochul will be carried out by the businesses that must comply with them and the local governments that are being asked to enforce them. The rising virus transmission rate in portions of upstate New York prompted ...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, responding to spiking COVID-19 rates in some parts of the state, is enacting a statewide indoor mask mandate in public places effective on Monday. She called it a “preemptive” strike to avoid an economic shutdown. Hochul said stores, restaurants, theaters and other businesses and venues can avoid requiring ...

State University of New York Chancellor Jim Malatras is facing new calls for his resignation after documents released by Attorney General Tish James show he was helping to plan retaliation against a woman who is a survivor of sexual harassment from former Gov. Andrew Cuomo. James in recent days has ...

The New York State Assembly has released its long-awaited report on an impeachment inquiry into former Gov. Andrew Cuomo. It finds that Cuomo oversaw a toxic workplace where he sexually harassed multiple women, and that he used staff to write and edit a $5 million memoir at the height of ...

A bipartisan group of state lawmakers are asking Gov. Kathy Hochul to commit to full funding for a program for New York’s veterans who are coping with post-traumatic stress disorder from their time in service. Sen. Sue Serino, a Republican, and Assemblymember Didi Barrett, a Democrat, said the program -- ...

For the second time in seven years, New Yorkers are being asked on the fall ballot to alter the state’s constitution to make changes to the redistricting process, which every 10 years draws new lines for congressional, Senate and Assembly districts. The measure has mixed support from government reform groups. ...

More details emerged Friday about the criminal complaint filed against former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Albany County Sheriff Craig Apple explained some of the confusion surrounding the release of the document, which charges Cuomo with the misdemeanor crime of forcibly touching a female staffer at the executive mansion late ...