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Lt. Gov. Antonio Delgado is breaking from Gov. Kathy Hochul in a decision not to be her running mate for the 2026 gubernatorial election. His announcement comes after public indications of a schism ...
Legislative Gazette file photo. The union representing corrections officers in New York is requesting a meeting with the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision to confront a range ...
The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen case, regarding Americans’ ability to carry concealed, loaded firearms in public spaces with ...
Photo by Darren McGee, courtesy of the governors office. Gov. Kathy Hochul at the new $1 billion Chobani facility in Rome, N.Y. On Tuesday, April 22, Gov. Kathy Hochul and Chobani’s CEO announced the ...
Photo by Darren McGee, courtesy of the Governor’s Office. New York state continues to move toward a cleaner and greener future with new legislation signed into law by Gov. Kathy Hochul that will make ...
To the disappointment of criminal justice reformers, the new state budget does not include the cash bail, discovery or speedy trial reforms Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed earlier this year. Despite a ...
On Feb. 24 Amanda Lefton, 39, was nominated by Gov. Hochul as the commissioner of the Department of Environmental Conservation and now serves as the acting commissioner as of March 3. The state Senate ...
Mount Rushmore, courtesy of the National Parks Service. For the sixth time since its inception in 1982, the Siena College Research Institute’s Survey of U.S. Presidents finds that experts rank ...
A recent anti-fracking bill, S.8357/A.8866, has now passed in both the Senate and Assembly. The bill would add carbon dioxide fracking to the statewide high volume hydraulic fracking ban codified in ...
After outrage over DOGE cuts and plummeting stock prices, a number of state lawmakers have asked the state comptroller to pull the plug on Elon Musk’s company, Tesla. Twenty-seven Assembly members ...
Sen. James Tedisco, R-Glenville, is calling for a moratorium on budget debates and budget bill voting after midnight as a way to increase transparency in the already murky budget process. “For weeks ...
Thirty-one public health organizations, including the American Heart Association and the American Diabetes Association, addressed Gov. Andrew Cuomo in a letter, urging him to maintain funding for ...