Gov. Kathleen C. Hochul gave explicit power to DOCCS to pay those increased rates in her executive orders declaring an emergency within the state prisons. Those orders have been renewed three times.

The two lawmakers who represent the City of Dunkirk in the State Capitol are slamming Gov. Kathy Hochul's plan to aid the ...

Governor Hochul boosts funding by $45.9M through the Empire State Supportive Housing Initiative to aid NY's homeless, ...

New York state lawmakers have passed a bill to preserve media access to police radio feeds as more and more law enforcement ...

Governor Kathy Hochul has announced New York’s Volunteer Firefighter Training Stipend program is being expanded to reimburse ...

A nine-member advisory board designing the renovation of SUNY Downstate’s University Hospital has submitted its plan to ...

There will not be a control board this year in the city of Dunkirk. Instead, it appears as more money may come in the form of ...

A group of 55 state legislators sent a letter Tuesday to the state prisons commissioner urging him to discontinue the ...

A community advisory board is recommending that the state invest nearly $1 billion to modernize Brooklyn’s SUNY Downstate ...

ALBANY — New York’s prisons are still in a state of emergency, lacking the staff they need to run properly and relying on a detachment of National Guard troops to shore up security staff ...