In an effort to stem violence on New York City streets and subways, and to help treat severely mentally ill people, Hochul ...

The utility giant is asking the state’s utilities regulator to jack up average electric bills by 11.4% and send gas bills soaring 13.3%.

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Governor Kathy Hochul announced more economic development investments in the Capital Region. She said a new job training program will develop talent for the burgeoning semiconductor industry and it ...

Cutting down on kids' screen time is popular among many Long Island educators and parents. But some said the state should let ...

Opponents of congestion pricing ripped Gov. Kathy Hochul Monday as two-faced for opposing President Trump’s Canadian tariffs — but imposing her own $9 tax on drivers entering Midtown.

Gov. Kathy Hochul delivers her 2025 State of the State Address on Tuesday in the Hart Theater at Empire State Plaza in Albany. Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals Rowan D. Wilson, left ...

Kathy Hochul’s initiatives in her $252 billion state budget proposal. But the Buffalo-born Democrat herself remained unpopular with more than half of the 803 registered New York voters sampled ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a bill meant to protect medical practitioners in New York who prescribe and send abortion pills out of state. By Benjamin Oreskes Reporting from the State Capitol in ...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Monday, Feb. 3, 2025, signs a law that lets doctors put the name and address of their medical practice on abortion prescription labels, a move that provides ...

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New York voters like what Gov. Kathy Hochul has proposed in her executive budget, but that doesn’t mean they’ve warmed up to her much, according to a new Siena College poll. Siena polled registered ...