ALBANY — The New York state legislature has passed a bill to legalize physician-assisted suicide, a program supporters are calling “medical aid in dying.” On Monday evening, with just a few days left for voting for the scheduled legislative session, the state Senate voted to pass its ...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is one of 22 Democratic governors to denounce President Donald Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops in response to protests in Los Angeles over the federal government’s crackdown on illegal immigration. A joint statement issued Sunday by the Democratic ...

ALBANY — Keeping the buzz alive about a potential run for governor, Rep. Elise M. Stefanik paid the state Capitol a visit on Monday and blasted Gov. Kathleen C. Hochul and the Democrats who run New York for policies she said are making the state less affordable and less ...

SCHENECTADY — Lt. Gov. Antonio Delgado is pitching himself as a transformative leader who will make fundamental changes to how New York operates and will prioritize issues, blaming “current leaders” — his boss Gov. Kathy Hochul — for failing to effectively respond to the core issues ...

DANNEMORA — From the beginning, the escape from Clinton Correctional Facility by David Sweat and Richard Matt has been described “like something out of a movie.” The story was ripe for moviemakers and their documentaries as well as for fictional versions of the story. The escape, ...

NEW YORK — Strawberry, Blueberry, JoJo and Mazzy were about 6 weeks old when animal rescuers coaxed them out of long metal pipes in the parking lot of a storage unit company. Meatball was a single kitten living in a cold garage with a group of semi-feral adult cats. Spaghetti, Macaroni and ...