As opioid related deaths continue to skyrocket across New York, many are left wondering what can be done to solve this problem. State and local leaders face some tough decisions on how to combat the ...

Legislative Gazette file photo. Albany City Hall. Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a new law that mandates public bodies to post meeting minutes online within 14 days of a meeting. This legislation ...

Sen. James Tedisco, R-Glenville, is calling for a moratorium on budget debates and budget bill voting after midnight as a way to increase transparency in the already murky budget process. “For weeks ...

Photo via Facebook @NYforSchmitt. Cover photo courtesy of the New York State Assembly. On the morning of Thursday, October 27th, The Legislative Gazette conducted an interview with congressional ...

The union representing corrections officers in New York is requesting a meeting with the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision to confront a range of critical issues surrounding ...

After outrage over DOGE cuts and plummeting stock prices, a number of state lawmakers have asked the state comptroller to pull the plug on Elon Musk’s company, Tesla. Twenty-seven Assembly members ...

New York state continues to move toward a cleaner and greener future with new legislation signed into law by Gov. Kathy Hochul that will make it easier for New Yorkers living in certain communities to ...

Central Hudson customer and New Windsor resident Vivian Milczarski speaks outside her home on March 4, 2022. Sen. James Skoufis, right, the chair of the Senate Investigations and Government Operations ...

September 9, 2024 — Rochester, NY — Gov. Kathy Hochul signs the Student Lifeline Act, sponsored by Assemblywoman Sarah Clark, left and Sen. Samra Brouk, right, while announcing a new multimedia ...

Faith leaders, environmental groups and elected officials met in Albany to “put people over plastic” and show support for the Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act (S.1464/A.1749). The ...

For the sixth time since its inception in 1982, the Siena College Research Institute’s Survey of U.S. Presidents finds that experts rank Franklin D. Roosevelt, Teddy Roosevelt, Abe Lincoln, Thomas ...

New York continues to lag the nation in job recovery but creating the new profession of “career criminal” is not the answer. Crime across the state, and particularly in New York City, has become ...