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.
ALBANY, N.Y. — With New York’s upstate casinos struggling, some state officials are considering the once unthinkable: putting casinos in New York City itself.
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.
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.
Imagine a barrel 4 1/2 feet tall, about as big as an antique ice box, or — perhaps more to the point — a small coffin. It’s in a treacherous spot: bobbing and dunking in the waters of the Niagara River, just above the cascading chaos of Niagara Falls.
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. — 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.
After an overwhelming re-election win, a series of high-profile bill signings and a fearless proclamation of New York as “the most progressive state in the nation,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo might have expected at least a brief honeymoon with his state’s voters.
The limousine accident that killed 20 people in an upstate New York town in October was over in a few terrible moments: The packed, speeding vehicle flew through an intersection, slammed into a parked car and immediately smashed into a shallow gully.
NEW YORK — More than two months after a limousine crashed in upstate New York, killing 20 people, federal investigators say they still have not been allowed to inspect the vehicle or records associated with the accident, the deadliest in the nation in nearly a decade.
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.
