ALBANY — Liberal groups are calling on New York lawmakers to use the last days of the legislative session to pass bills related to the criminal justice system, despite concern over rising gun violence that could make reform more politically risky. Democrats’ veto-proof majority in the ...

MORRISTOWN — Local elected officials and candidates, as well as a few of the north country’s representatives to the federal government, all gathered Sunday for a meet-and-greet barbecue. Local Conservative Party members were invited to meet their local elected officials or candidates, ...

SARATOGA (AP) — U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik, whose loyalty to former president Donald Trump won her a leadership post in the House Republican caucus, announced on Twitter that she is expecting her first child. The fourth-term Congress member from upstate New York tweeted Saturday, “We are ...

Just a year ago, the financial future looked bleak for state governments as governors and lawmakers scrambled to cut spending amid the coronavirus recession that was projected to pummel revenue. They laid off state workers, threatened big cuts to schools and warned about canceling or scaling ...

Parole reform activists and formerly incarcerated people heightened their cries across the state this week, pleading with lawmakers to increase New Yorkers’ opportunities to be released from prison as this year’s legislative session draws to a close. For rehabilitated, aging or sickly ...

ALBANY — Lawmakers are pushing in their last scheduled days of session for the year to vote on a bill that would expunge the criminal records of millions of New Yorkers. The Clean Slate Act would seal and expunge the criminal record of about 2.3 million New Yorkers after completion of ...