ALBANY (AP) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has signed legislation requiring general hospitals in the state to seek input from nurses and other staff in creating staffing plans that are to include specific guidelines on how many patients each nurse is assigned. The law, signed Friday, ...

PLATTSBURGH — Insulted by years with no contract, Canada’s Customs and Immigration Union is threatening to go on strike, something Garry Douglas says is “of great concern” as talk of a reopened border ramps up. “Not only would it distract Canada from current consideration of ...

Mass-vaccination clinics run by the state Department of Health will start to downscale and shift resources to locally run vaccination efforts, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Friday. Potsdam’s clinic will be one of the first to close, starting Monday. The shift in resources came a few days ...

The North Country has the second-lowest vaccination rate of any region in New York. The revelation came Tuesday when Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced that 70% of New Yorkers statewide had received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. The North Country is a bit lower, with only 64% of ...

NEW YORK — It was 465 days. That’s how long New Yorkers endured stricter capacity, social distancing, disinfection and additional health screening requirements in businesses and social settings since the COVID-19 pandemic official began March 7, 2020. The first New York resident tested ...

The U.S. death toll from COVID-19 topped 600,000 on Tuesday, even as the vaccination drive has drastically brought down daily cases and fatalities and allowed the country to emerge from the gloom and look forward to summer. The number of lives lost, as recorded by Johns Hopkins University, ...