Some Democratic state lawmakers want to grant the New York City Council the ability to remove a sitting mayor from office, ...

New York's proposed state budget would expand access to free school lunches to 300,000 more students, amid concerns over ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York insisted that the state budget, now a month overdue, include measures to increase public safety ...

The U.S. Justice Department filed lawsuits against four states this week, claiming their climate actions conflict with federal authority and President Donald Trump's en ...

Lawsuits allege new regulations that expand wetlands and their adjacent areas by more than 3.5 million acres will imperil ...

Gov. Hochul pledged at Grand Central Terminal Thursday to work toward driving down crime in the New York City subway system ...

Kathy Hochul has more power to control state Medicaid costs than anyone else — and she’s allowing them to balloon out of ...

The recent $254 billion New York State budget, announced on Monday, April 28, includes an initiative to ban cell phone use in public schools across the state.

Should the bill become law, New York would become the 11th jurisdiction in the United States to permit physician-assisted suicide through legislation. At the moment, the practice is legal in Oregon, ...

Adams had been counting on the state to pony up hundreds of millions of dollars to ensure no parent loses access to their ...

Governor Kathy Hochul is committing $68 billion to fully fund the MTA’s five-year capital plan, addressing long-standing ...

The change, which Gov. Kathy Hochul pushed, points to broadening Democratic support for coercive approaches to mental health crises.