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 ...

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.

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

Let’s make a whatever-you-call-it. Gov. Kathy Hochul acknowledged Wednesday that lawmakers had reached a breakthrough in negotiations to revamp the state’s discovery laws — even ...

Lawler facilitated a phone call between one of the candidates in the race, Liz Joy, and House Speaker Mike Johnson, according to three people with direct knowledge of the effort. The previously ...

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