Albany lawmakers are close to finalizing a deal on discovery rules in criminal trials, which has been holding up agreement on ...

State Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie is going to war with Gov. Kathy Hochul, pushing a bombshell bill Wednesday to curtail her ...

I believe we worked through, we have a framework on having the discovery issue resolved. I just briefed my conference and ...

State lawmakers are expected to return to the Capitol on Thursday to pass their sixth “extender” bill since April 1 to keep ...

Let’s make a whatever-you-call-it. Gov. Kathy Hochul acknowledged Wednesday that lawmakers had reached a breakthrough in ...

Governor Kathy Hochul has been holding press conferences every day this week on her proposed changes to the state’s discovery ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul and the State Legislature enacted legislation Thursday to fund state operations with $9.6 billion through ...

Some Albany insiders say it could be May before a state budget is approved this year – and some state lawmakers don’t want to ...

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie said lawmakers struck a tentative deal with district attorneys, potentially clearing a budget ...

Changes to the state’s involuntary commitment laws, a potential mask ban and a tax hike to fund the MTA are all on the table.