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ALBANY — Gov. Kathy Hochul on Thursday announced the state is lifting a hiring freeze that had been implemented during the height of the coronavirus pandemic, at a time when pay raises for roughly 80,000 government workers also had been ...

SCHOHARIE — Dairy farmers across the state had a scare during the last couple of weeks when their monthly Dairy Margin Coverage checks failed to arrive in the mail at the start of September. Their fears turned out to be ...

ALBANY – In 2014, when Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo put forth a proposed constitutional amendment reforming New York’s redistricting process, some good-government groups predicted the plan would instead result in partisan gridlock. On Wednesday, that prediction began to bear out: ...

SCHENECTADY — Just 68 percent of students at this city’s public high school graduate on time, according to the most recent state data. Only 12 percent of the city school district’s fifth graders tested as proficient in math, while a ...

ALBANY — Employees and children in New York’s state-regulated day care centers will be required to immediately resume wearing masks as COVID-19 spread among children has been a cause for concern across the nation, Gov. Kathy Hochul said Wednesday. “We ...