Gov. Hochul uses the state budget as a strategy to push policy issues, leveraging her power in Albany's budget negotiations.

Progress seems to have been made on changes to the state's discovery laws in the after hours of Wednesday. Speaker of the Assembly Carl E. Heastie, D-Bronx, told Spectrum News Capitol Tonight reporter ...

Progress seems to have been made on changes to the state’s discovery laws in the after hours of Wednesday. Speaker of the Assembly Carl E. Heastie, D-Bronx, told Spectrum News Capitol Tonight reporter ...

Progress seems to have been made on changes to the state's discovery laws in the after hours of Wednesday. Speaker of the Assembly Carl E. Heastie, D-Bronx, told Spectrum News Capitol Tonight reporter ...

Progress seems to have been made on changes to the state’s discovery laws in the after hours of Wednesday. Speaker of the ...

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

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.

Governor Kathy Hochul has been holding press conferences every day this week on her proposed changes to the state’s discovery law.  The die hard Buffalo Bills fan used ...

New York’s budget impasse inched forward as lawmakers struck a key agreement on pretrial discovery reform, according to ...

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

Some progress has been made on the state budget, as lawmakers passed another extender to fund state government to Thursday.

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