NYS News

ALBANY — A New York civil rights organization will soon release a comprehensive report highlighting how Black families disproportionately enter and face harsher consequences in the state’s child welfare system, and suggesting lawmakers adopt sweeping reforms to how New York conducts ...

ALBANY — A late push by Gov. Kathy Hochul and other Democratic lawmakers to alter the path for accreditation of private schools, including yeshivas, was left out of the state budget.  The quietly discussed measures, debated behind closed doors through the final ...

ALBANY — In the wake of a shooting last week in which a man killed a Syracuse police officer and an Onondaga County sheriff’s deputy, state troopers are helping provide security in and around the city of Syracuse for President Joe Biden’s ...

ALBANY — After months of demonstrations by supporters and negotiations among lawmakers, the proposed New York Home Energy Affordable Transition Act failed to make it into the final state budget. The NY HEAT Act, as the legislation is known, would ...

ALBANY — Plans to streamline the siting of transmission line projects in New York were included in the final budget plan, and supporters are celebrating changes they say will benefit the state’s ambitious clean energy goals. The Renewable Action Through Project ...