It may be April Fools Day, but the soon to be late state budget is no laughing matter in Albany. The state Legislature passed ...

A Q&A with the civil rights attorney, who is still rabid about defending the Constitution and the First Amendment.

The mayor and the City Council speaker are going to have to find consensus amid an unprecedented and fractious primary ...

Women awards ceremony on Thursday evening at The Prince George Ballroom in NoMad, celebrating leading women who go the extra ...

The state’s budget director says that if federal cuts to vital services come to pass in Congress’ final budget plan, the state can’t simply raise more money and will have to make its own cuts. Nearly ...

After a number of organizations representing survivors of sexual and domestic violence called on lawmakers to support the ...

Following months of intrigue and speculation about the future of the 21st Congressional District, the White House is now preparing to pull Rep. Elise Stefanik’s nomination for U.N. ambassador as ...

Involuntary commitment of severely mentally ill people should be a last resort. Let’s build more first resort solutions.

Half a century after the state tightened the criteria for involuntary commitment, Gov. Kathy Hochul wants to make it easier to hospitalize mentally ill people against their will.

Including New York City Council Members Althea Stevens and Lincoln Restler, who organized the letter, 47 of the current 49 ...

Providing more money to this powerful initiative will help protect trans New Yorkers from the federal government.