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College and university leaders nationwide are speaking out against the Trump administration’s recent threats to withhold federal higher education funding. In a strongly worded public statement ...
Tax credits awarded to film and television productions may be costing New Yorkers more than they think, according to one lawmaker who wants to study their true economic impact. Senate bill S.4662, ...
Photo by Darren McGee, courtesy of the governors office. Gov. Kathy Hochul at the new $1 billion Chobani facility in Rome, N.Y. On Tuesday, April 22, Gov. Kathy Hochul and Chobani’s CEO announced the ...
Earlier this month, the Buffalo Bills and Erie County marked a major construction milestone with the final beam of structural steel being put into place at the $2.1 billion state-of-the-art New ...
Legislative Gazette file photo. The union representing corrections officers in New York is requesting a meeting with the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision to confront a range ...
On Feb. 24 Amanda Lefton, 39, was nominated by Gov. Hochul as the commissioner of the Department of Environmental Conservation and now serves as the acting commissioner as of March 3. The state Senate ...
After outrage over DOGE cuts and plummeting stock prices, a number of state lawmakers have asked the state comptroller to pull the plug on Elon Musk’s company, Tesla. Twenty-seven Assembly members ...
Photo courtesy of the New York State Senate. Childhood obesity has hit an all-time high as of March 2020, with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data showing a prevalence of 19.7 ...
Corrections officers across the state are overworked due to understaffing, sometimes being mandated 16-24 hour shifts. DiPietro noted that oftentimes due to the overworking of corrections officers, ...
Lt. Gov. Antonio Delgado is breaking from Gov. Kathy Hochul in a decision not to be her running mate for the 2026 gubernatorial election. His announcement comes after public indications of a schism ...
The chief judge of New York State’s highest court, Rowan Wilson, presented his annual State of the Judiciary address at the Court of Appeals in Albany on Monday, February 10. During his address, ...
After outrage from Republicans and some government watchdog groups, Democrats in the State Legislature are backing off a controversial proposal to change New York State Election Law, which would have ...