ALBANY – Gov. Kathy Hochul defended blowing a state budget deadline Thursday, saying she’s not budging on her policy demands – as lawmakers hightailed it out of the capital for Passover break.

It’s Heastie versus Hochul. State Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie is going to war with Gov. Kathy Hochul, pushing a bombshell bill Wednesday to curtail her leverage in high-stakes New York budget ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) took a hard-line stance on including a provision to add a ban on face masks in public with the intent to harass, a notion that became entangled with concerns over the ...

State budget talks have stalled over involuntary commitment and discovery law changes. Kathy Hochul/X Gov. Kathy Hochul needs to stick to her guns for as long as it takes to get her modest reforms ...

Kathy Hochul’s plan to tackle New York City’s mental health crisis. State Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie told reporters Tuesday that negotiations have moved beyond an impasse, but details have ...

Kathy Hochul said she favored a less stringent proposal that would target “masked harassment.” By Benjamin Oreskes A nonprofit bought the landmark Metro Theater after receiving financial ...

ALBANY — Gov. Kathy Hochul is pushing for changes to election law in the state budget that would allow a governor and lieutenant governor to run on the same ticket in the primary, legislative ...

A view of Nassau University Medical Center in East Meadow. Gov. Kathy Hochul is proposing to change the governance structure of the center to give her office control of the board, according to ...

WHAT ALBANY’S READING: Gov. Kathy Hochul wants to change how governors and lieutenant governors run in separate primaries — a move to guarantee she’ll have a political ally as her No. 2 ...

Kathy Hochul said Tuesday. Much of the funding — which the state would have received through FEMA’s Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities Program — was allocated for flood ...