ROCHESTER, N.Y. — With much of the election energy focused on next year’s presidential election, most of the contests in New York state have stuck firmly to the all-the-politics-is-local playbook, hinging on issues like schools and crime.
ALBANY, N.Y. — There was a time when the diagnosis of HIV was a death sentence, when thousands of New Yorkers, primarily gay men, succumbed to AIDS-related illnesses, and the end of the epidemic seemed both medically and mentally impossible.
For years, motorists flying down Interstate 90 southwest of Buffalo, New York, were putting the well-being of their vehicles — not to mention their occupants — at risk, as they entered a 3-mile stretch crossing the Seneca Nation’s tribal lands.
CATTARAUGUS INDIAN RESERVATION, N.Y. <em xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">— </em>If ever you wanted a tangible symbol of the execrable relationship between Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New York’s largest Native American tribe, it is the 3 miles of cracked, rutted and completely rotten highway running through this lakeside reservation.
MONTICELLO, N.Y. — It was once thought to be a sure thing, a $1.2 billion gambling mecca that carried long-held hopes of revitalizing the Catskills, and more recent expectations of driving Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s upstate development program.
ALBANY, N.Y, — One would be hard-pressed to find two political parties that agree on less than the liberal Working Families Party and the Conservative Party of New York, which occupy opposite ends of New York’s political spectrum.
As the executive director of the Committee on Open Government, he helped offer access to records that the state might have otherwise been happy to shield. But a state investigation revealed he had kept secrets of his own.
Calling it a public health emergency, Gov. Andrew Cuomo immediately signed the bill, adding New York to a small handful of states that do not allow exemptions on religious grounds.
New York took a significant step toward expanding the national conversation about sex and crime when a collection of lawmakers on Monday introduced bills to decriminalize prostitution.
The New York state Assembly passed a bill Tuesday that would allow state prosecutors to pursue charges against any individual granted a presidential pardon for similar federal crimes, closing a loophole that lawmakers said could be exploited by President Donald Trump in a bid to indemnify former associates.
After more than a decade of living at a picturesque manse in the Northern Westchester enclave of New Castle, New York, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his longtime girlfriend, Sandra Lee, are planning to sell the house, according to Lee.
ALBANY, N.Y. — As the standoff over President Donald Trump’s federal tax returns deepens in Washington, New York state lawmakers say they intend to advance a bill Wednesday to allow congressional committees to see Trump’s New York state returns.
ALBANY, N.Y. — As the standoff over President Donald Trump’s federal tax returns deepens in Washington, New York state lawmakers say they intend to advance a bill on Wednesday to allow congressional committees to see Trump’s New York state returns.
ALBANY, N.Y. — As the standoff over President Donald Trump’s federal tax returns deepens in Washington, New York state lawmakers say they intend to advance a bill on Wednesday to allow congressional committees to see Trump’s New York state returns.
ALBANY, N.Y. — As New York has emerged as the epicenter of a national outbreak of measles, local lawmakers and health officials have struggled to compel some ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities, where most of the cases have been found, to drop their resistance to vaccinations.
ALBANY, N.Y. — As New York has emerged as the epicenter of a national outbreak of measles, local lawmakers and health officials have struggled to compel some ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities, where most of the cases have been found, to drop their resistance to vaccinations.
For more than two years, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has railed against President Donald Trump, attacking his policies on everything from immigration and reproductive rights to his handling of the disaster response in Puerto Rico.
ALBANY, N.Y. — In an attempt to work around the White House, Democratic lawmakers in Albany, New York, are trying to do what their federal counterparts have so far failed to accomplish: to obtain President Donald Trump’s tax returns.
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