Speaking with reporters after a leaders meeting on Thursday, state Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins said she ...

Lawmakers are also moving to sort out the remaining issues — including how to fund the MTA’s $68.4 billion capital plan — as they work three weeks past the budget deadline. Speaking with reporters ...

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

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

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

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 ...

Progress seems to have been made on changes to the state’s discovery laws in the after hours of Wednesday. Speaker of the Assembly Carl E. Heastie, D-Bronx, told Spectrum News Capitol Tonight reporter ...

Progress seems to have been made on changes to the state's discovery laws in the after hours of Wednesday as budget negotiations continued. Assembly Speaker Carl E. Heastie, D-Bronx, told Spectrum ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul and the State Legislature enacted legislation Thursday to fund state operations with $9.6 billion through ...

Governor Kathy Hochul has been holding press conferences every day this week on her proposed changes to the state’s discovery ...

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