NEWTON FALLS — Two men died over the weekend when a snowmobile went through the ice on a river in the northern Adirondacks during an ice fishing trip, according to state police, and a 6-year-old boy survived and made his way off the ice to a home. According to police, at about 7:40 p.m. ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul and the state lawmakers who oversee horse racing expressed serious concern this week about regulators’ failure to investigate buyers of illegal horse drugs. Their comments came after New York Focus revealed that key evidence from an FBI investigation into an international ...

In her annual State of the State address on Tuesday, Gov. Kathy Hochul had little to say about what’s in store for hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers at risk of losing their public benefits this year. “While Washington takes a machete to our safety net, I’m doubling down on the ...

If 2025 was the year Gov. Kathy Hochul embraced “abundance” as the solution to New York’s woes — above all, the rising cost of living — 2026 is her year to show that she was just getting started. That is, at least, what Hochul vowed in her State of the State address on Tuesday, ...

UTICA — A New York prison guard who failed to intervene as he watched an inmate being beaten to death should be convicted of manslaughter, a prosecutor told a jury Thursday in the final trial of correctional officers whose pummeling, recorded by body-cameras, provoked outrage. “For ...

“We will not allow the use of state resources to assist in federal immigration raids,” Gov. Kathy Hochul declared halfway through her 2026 State of the State address, bringing an auditorium of lawmakers to their feet for two consecutive standing ovations. Her statement came after she ...