So much has changed for Mariana Kosarieva since February 2022. She lost her home in Kharkiv, Ukraine, when Russia invaded. She lost her nation when she fled for safer shores after the house next to hers in Lviv was bombed. She lost her husband – to divorce, a victim of distance both physical ...

BUFFALO — Long before a would-be assassin shot and wounded former President Donald Trump, the fuse of political violence had been burning across America. Members of Congress have been shot. One lawmaker’s staffers in Virginia were attacked with a baseball bat. In Louisville, a bullet ...

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is calling for sweeping new checks on the Supreme Court and its power, saying that the recently-uncovered controversies involving some members of the high court have shown its long-standing independence needs to be reigned in. Gillibrand, D-NY, said in a virtual press ...

HUDSON — The race is on to keep a 150-year-old lighthouse from crumbling into the Hudson River. Wooden pilings beneath Hudson-Athens Lighthouse are deteriorating, and the structure, built in the middle of the river when steamboats still plied the water, is beginning to shift. Cracks are ...

A proposed amendment to New York’s constitution to bar discrimination over “gender identity” and “pregnancy outcomes” will appear on the ballot this November, the state’s high court ruled Thursday. The decision from the Court of Appeals affirms a lower court ruling from June, ...

ALBANY — New signs could soon pop up in local gun shops across New York, if a bill passed by the state legislature is signed into law this year. In early June, the state Assembly and Senate voted to pass a bill that would require firearms dealers to post conspicuous signs in their stores ...