From left, Sen. John Liu, NYPIRG’s Executive Director Blair Horner, and Sen. Brad Hoylman-Sigal celebrate Sunshine Week by announcing four bills that would improve and strengthen New York’s Freedom of ...

For the sixth time since its inception in 1982, the Siena College Research Institute’s Survey of U.S. Presidents finds that experts rank Franklin D. Roosevelt, Teddy Roosevelt, Abe Lincoln, Thomas ...

On the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, a coalition of 129 environmental, health and community groups issued a letter to the State Senate and Assembly requesting they close a loophole in state ...

A 2013 rally outside the state Capitol in Albany, protesting passage of the New York Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement Act, otherwise known as the SAFE Act. The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral ...

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, ...

Legislative Gazette file photo. Albany City Hall. Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a new law that mandates public bodies to post meeting minutes online within 14 days of a meeting. This legislation ...

Photos by Mike Groll, courtesy of the Governor’s Office Earlier this month, the Buffalo Bills and Erie County marked a major construction milestone with the final beam of structural steel being put ...

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 of critical issues surrounding ...

John King, chancellor of the State University of New York system, signed a statement against higher education funding cuts, titled A Call for Constructive Engagement, along with many individual SUNY ...

Photo by Debora Cartagena, courtesy of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Thirty-one public health organizations, including the American Heart Association and the American Diabetes ...

Photo by Mike Groll, courtesy of the Governor’s Office January 21, 2025 — Albany, NY — Governor Kathy Hochul presents the Fiscal Year 2026 Executive Budget in the Red Room at the State Capitol. Gov.

Since August 2022, DEA and other law enforcement agencies nationwide have seized brightly-colored fentanyl and fentanyl pills in 26 states. Dubbed “rainbow fentanyl,” this trend appears to be a new ...