Some forward-looking Illinois lawmakers set up a contest to design a new flag and put it to a vote. In a landslide, a winner ...

Lawmakers say there are 26 Assembly members and 12 state senators who would have to either resign or give up their outside ...

BUFFALO - What if bodies of water were guaranteed the kinds of legal rights that would criminalize their destruction? What if communities had the authority to enact laws that prevented pollution, ...

Barclay, the Republican minority leader in the New York State Assembly. Mr. Barclay said that he would be pleased to see the state hire qualified employees from the federal government. But he said ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul deployed the National Guard as she has weighed transferring prisoners out of state to address the Empire ...

The state legislature is doubling down on the governor’s proposal to deter institutional investors from buying single-family homes in New York. Senate and Assembly Democrats on Tuesday released ...

New York State Assembly member and mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani confronted President Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, in Albany on Wednesday over the recent arrest of Columbia University ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul’s proposed guardrails for New York City Mayor Eric Adams are far from assured as state lawmakers expressed skepticism about the measures in a closed-door meeting on Monday. Members ...

That would be (state) “Seal on a Bedsheet,” the derisive moniker ... Some forward-looking lawmakers set up a contest to design a new flag and put it to a vote. In a landslide, a winner was ...

Nearly 400 mayors and municipal officials from across New York State are calling on state leaders to continue investing in ...

A coalition of Democrats representing districts with state prisons ... afternoon with Assembly Republicans, WAMC’s Lucas Willard spoke with Matt Simpson, who represents New York’s 114th ...

It's the latest in a string of proposals that have elicited mixed public reactions and drawn opposition from the restaurant ...