New York Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, while updating reporters on governor-influenced policy in the state's $252 billion ...

The New York State Assembly has passed a bill that would give a patient with terminal illness the choice to end their life, with the help of a medical professional.

Kathy Hochul appears to have secured many of the expansions to involuntary commitment that she pushed for in the state budget ...

While neither Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart Cousins nor Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie had yet to join Hochul in ...

The State Assembly passed a bill Tuesday that would allow terminally ill people facing less than six months to live the right ...

The mask policy was one of the final hurdles Hochul and the Legislature had to clear to reach a budget agreement.

For the first time in either chamber, lawmakers approved legislation that would permit doctors to help terminally ill ...

Hochul said the budget deal will include her "affordability agenda," which includes tax rebate checks of up to $500 for most ...

The agreed-to penalty enhancer could only be leveled if a suspect is charged with a class A misdemeanor or anything more ...

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (D-Bronx) told lawmakers that the bill – which proponents call medical aid in dying – has the ...

The consequential vote marks the first time the bill has reached either the Assembly or Senate floor since first being introduced in the 2015-2016 legislative session.