Nonpublic schools must currently use tests approved by the state education department. Under the deal, nonpublic schools ...

The state will lower the minimum prison guard age to 18 and spend $500 million to keep backfilling shifts with National Guard ...

New York will eliminate more than $6 billion in unemployment insurance debt through the new state budget, according to ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul announced a $254 billion budget deal with Senate and Assembly leaders that kept her plans to distribute ...

Andrew Cuomo has released a plan to address what he calls the city’s “mental health crisis,” laying out a blueprint for a ...

New York will pay off its $6B unemployment loan, ending extra business surcharges and raising jobless benefits to $896 per ...

The city wants to replace this 50-year-old office building with more than 1,200 apartments.

State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli released a report informing us that Buffalo and its surrounding counties saw an 81% increase in homelessness from 2022 to 2024.

Buffalo Mayor Chris Scanlon’s budget cleared a major hurdle Monday as it was confirmed by Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie that a 3% hotel bed tax and the establishment of a parking authority will be ...

This sort of wink-and-nod communication to get around rules barring coordination between campaigns and super PACs is called “redboxing.” POLITICO reported last week on Cuomo’s use of the practice. And ...

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New York could become the next state to authorize physicians to prescribe lethal doses of drugs to terminally ill patients, ...