District Attorney Michael E. McMahon has long advocated for changes to discovery in New York state, and now those changes are ...

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

The 2025-2026 state spending plan is roughly a month late after weeks of haggling, particularly over the Governor’s marquee ...

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

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

The New York State Assembly has passed a bill that would grant the use of medication for a terminally ill patient to choose ...

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

A bill that would let doctors provide medication to help end the lives of terminally ill patients is moving in the state’s ...

It’s still unclear how the state budget will tweak the Foundation Aid formula for school funding, which is a problem for ...

Assembly members who voted in favor of the measure reflected on their experiences caring for dying loved ones.

Mike Vilensky was a reporter at The Wall Street Journal's Greater New York section.