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

State Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie is going to war with Gov. Kathy Hochul, pushing a bombshell bill Wednesday to curtail her leverage in high-stakes New York budget talks — as disagreements over her ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Medical aid in dying may soon take a major step toward legalization in New York.

Non-fiscal policy shouldn't be jammed into the annual negotiation, but a proposal to keep lawmakers' salaries flowing when it ...

We have finally found a point of agreement with Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie – policy issues don’t need to be included in the state budget. That doesn’t mean we agree with his recent proposal to ...

Albany lawmakers are close to finalizing a deal on discovery rules in criminal trials, which has been holding up agreement on ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul said she envisions 18-year-old recruits working in supervised activities – without access to a gun – to get ...

Some Albany insiders say it could be May before a state budget is approved this year – and some state lawmakers don’t want to ...

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie said lawmakers struck a tentative deal with district attorneys, potentially clearing a budget ...

A tentative compromise on New York’s discovery laws has been struck between Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and the state’s ...