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

Speaker of the Assembly Carl E. Heastie, D-Bronx, told Spectrum News Capitol Tonight reporter Kate Lisa "discovery's done" in the halls of the Capitol on Wednesday night, after a meeting with the ...

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 ...

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.

Anyone who thinks the deal on the state’s discovery laws that Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie announced Tuesday will ...

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