Both houses of the New York state legislature passed Gov. Kathy Hochul’s massive $254 billion state budget package Thursday night following days of debate and over a month delay past the April 1 ...

The state spending deal reached in May by Gov. Kathy Hochul and legislative Democrats hiked outlays by 9.3%, three times faster than inflation.

In the waterway’s first year of operation, more than 40,000 passengers traveled it, according to the New York State Archives Partnership Trust.

ALBANY — Jennifer Saunders, who for the past 14 years has been director of the Washington State History Museum and Washington State Historical Society, will lead the New York State Museum ...

New York will raise Medicaid spending by more than $4 billion, for example. That reflects growth in the program, which nearly a third of the state relies on, and higher reimbursement rates for ...

Why It Matters Mamdani, 33, is a New York state assemblyman who was born in Uganda to Indian parents. He has lived in New York City since age 7 and became a U.S. citizen in 2018.

New York state lawmakers passed a bill on Thursday that aims to prevent frontier AI models from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic from contributing to disaster scenarios, including the death or injury ...

New York will make phone calls free for incarcerated people starting next month, lifting a financial burden for the loved ones of the state’s more than 30,000 prisoners. It will join five other ...