In March 2024, Joseph Zayas appointed his son’s girlfriend, Katz, to be a member of the “prestigious statewide Surrogate’s ...

Drastic cutbacks coupled with skyrocketing utility costs put seniors and other vulnerable households at greater risk for ...

Hochul's proposed rollbacks are one of the last sticking points in this year’s budget negotiations. One prosecutor’s support ...

None of us asked to be born a certain way,” Kelly Metzgar, a transgender woman and executive director of the Adirondack North ...

Nantwi’s cellmate, the only incarcerated witness in the room as guards allegedly killed the 22-year-old, speaks out for the ...

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Environmentalists have long charged that New York is falling short of its climate mandates. Now, they’re taking the state to ...

Mental health providers are scrambling to prevent mass layoffs and program closures, leaving advocates urging state leaders ...

“Approximately 60,000 children will lose their childcare vouchers over the next fiscal year absent a significant infusion of ...

Yeshivas and other nonpublic schools face a looming deadline to prove they offer an education similar to the state’s public ...

Officers recorded over 25,000 stops last year, a 50 percent increase over the previous year. Nine in 10 people stopped by the ...

Governor Hochul’s budget allocates only a fraction of what the state Board of Regents suggested for three state-owned ...