For the first time since she took office in 2021, Governor Kathy Hochul won’t be taking a stack of unsigned bills with her into the Christmas holiday. This year, she has already either signed or vetoed all but two of the 856 bills that passed the state legislature. (One of them is the ...
NEW YORK — Zohran Mamdani became mayor of New York City on Thursday, taking over one of the most unrelenting jobs in American politics with a promise to transform government on behalf of the city’s striving, struggling working class. Mamdani, a Democrat, was sworn in at a decommissioned ...
NEW YORK — On any given evening as the lights come up on Act 2 of “Liberation,” Bess Wohl’s intergenerational Broadway play about a women’s consciousness-raising group, you can hear supportive cheers of “Whoo!” and “Yeah!” — and sometimes, a round of applause. All before a ...
ALBANY — Kratom; it’s sold at gas stations, convenience stores and the ever-growing number of smoke shops across New York state, often marketed as a natural herbal supplement. But those products could be extremely dangerous, and state officials have taken their first step at reeling in ...
ALBANY — Governor Kathy Hochul has moved to approve some of the year’s most impactful pieces of legislation in the last few days, clearing her desk of the last of hundreds of bills handed to her by the state legislature. Each year, Hochul has until the end of the year to approve, veto ...
OGDENSBURG — Congresswoman Elise Stefanik wants the Trump administration to look into how the New York state Department of Health has handled Medicaid funding, an apparent result of her efforts to investigate how the state has handled the hospital as it tries to transition itself to a new ...