Nearly a month after the start of the 2025-26 fiscal year, Gov. Kathy Hochul on Monday announced a $254 billion state budget agreement that includes many of the proposals she detailed earlier this ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul promised millions — and even billions of dollars — in new spending on health care, education and migrants in her record-breaking, $233 billion state budget proposal Tuesday.

The budget cut reversals, which come nearly two months after City Hall unveiled a slew of reductions, will allow the Department of Sanitation to maintain thousands of existing litter baskets and ...