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ALBANY — Gov. Kathy Hochul said that before her staff authorized $637 million in payments to a major campaign donor, she was never asked to give final approval to the taxpayer-funded deal for COVID-19 tests. Hochul described her arms-length involvement ...

ALBANY — Councilman Owusu Anane believes it’s time for Police Chief Eric Hawkins to go. Is he right? If you wanted to back Anane’s call, you could note that Albany is enduring an extended period of heightened gun violence with ...

ALBANY — State Police Superintendent Kevin P. Bruen, who took over leadership of the agency 15 months ago, is under scrutiny from Gov. Kathy Hochul’s office following allegations that he had shielded a former human resources official from internal complaints due to ...

SCHODACK — Employees attempting to organize a union at Amazon’s Schodack fulfillment center are crying foul and filing a federal complaint over a phone interview between someone from the company’s human resources “Central Investigations” office in Portland, Ore., and Heather ...

ALBANY – Multiple New York Republican and conservative groups are suing state elections officials in an attempt to reverse a 2021 law that expedites the state’s absentee ballot voting process, claiming that the statute will enable more voter fraud and ...