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Thanksgiving may be the kickoff to what is known as the most wonderful time of the year, but the stress of the holidays can put a strain on even the best relationships. In fact, divorce cases spike right when the holiday season wraps up in January.
Legislation sponsored by New York state Sen. Liz Krueger passed both houses of the Legislature this year and could help make an amicable split a little easier. It would allow for no-fault separation in cases where the relationship between spouses has broken down "irretrievably for a period of at least six months" while also requiring that issues relating to custody or visitation have been resolved.
New York State United Teachers, the state teacher’s union, has announced it is launching a statewide training program for educators on the science of reading.
The phonics-based approach to teaching reading comprehension has in recent years become a priority of Gov. Kathy Hochul, after two decades of shifting teaching methods among educators which focus on individual word recognition and context clues. The organization said they are trying to focus not just on what students learn, but how they learn best.
Two upstate women in opposing political parties are vying for the governor’s seat in 2026.
Both Democratic incumbent Gov. Kathy Hochul and the chairwoman of House Republican Leadership, Rep. Elise Stefanik, are running on messages of affordability, being working moms and having their own decent relationships with the White House.
Lawyers and immigration advocates responded Wednesday to the now-public affidavits that federal agents used to obtain warrants for a raid in Cayuga County, saying they were not for people, but rather business records.
New York Civil Liberties Union supervising attorney Perry Grossman said the “dragnet actions” and “nonconsensual questioning” by federal agents are not justified by what is described in the warrants.
Newly obtained affidavits lay out how an eight-month federal investigation unfolded and led to a September immigration raid of Nutrition Bar Confectioner’s factory raid in Cato, in Cayuga County.
The identical affidavits, written by Andrew McCoy, a special agent with Homeland Security Investigations, show that tip calls, traffic stops by the Oswego County Sheriff’s Office and surveillance of the facility guided their investigation.
U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is sounding the alarm on new Trump administration plans he said could force thousands of New Yorkers out of their homes as soon as January.
The concern centers on the federal Continuum of Care Program under the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development — funding that helps local nonprofits and governments house families, seniors, veterans and survivors of domestic violence.
Hugh J. Grant, who became mayor of New York City in 1889, was a Tammany Hall politician — the New York City political machine often synonymous with corruption and patronage.
The fact that he was only 30 years old only worked in his favor.
New York Attorney General Letitia James on Tuesday led a bipartisan coalition of 36 attorneys general in urging Congress to reject language in the National Defense Authorization Act, which would prevent states from passing or enforcing laws which govern artificial intelligence.
It comes as congressional leaders consider adding language to the annual bill which would preempt state laws governing AI and President Donald Trump considers an executive order which would create a taskforce to challenge them.
According to reports, the Democratic National Committee is looking to implement ranked choice voting, as is the case New York City has, in their primaries for the 2028 presidential election.
If that were the case, the voting system would be in place for primaries in New York in what is expected to be a crowded field.
Nearly five years later, the Jan. 6 attack which occurred in the wake of the 2020 election at the U.S. Capitol is still a politically fraught event in American history.
In New York state, state Assemblymember Charles Lavine and State Sen. John Liu are sponsoring legislation that would require the teaching of that day in New York’s schools.
Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani say child care is too expensive for New Yorkers, and want to beef up government programs so families with children who want help can get it.
“We are on a path to universal child care,” Hochul said.
House Democratic Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries joined NY1’s Errol Louis for an exclusive one-on-one interview, discussing last week’s surprisingly cordial meeting between President Donald Trump and Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, as well as the recent news that a federal judge dismissed the criminal cases against former FBI Director James Comey and New York state Attorney General Letitia James. Jeffries also talked about the future of the Democratic Party, the city’s affordability crisis and how he’s crafting a plan for Democrats to retake the House next year.
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The race to replace U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik in New York's Congressional District is becoming increasingly competitive.
Sticker Mule CEO Anthony Constantino announced Monday evening he will seek the House seat as the incumbent congresswoman runs for governor next year.
A federal judge has tossed the criminal indictments against New York Attorney General Letitia James and former FBI Director James Comey, ruling the Trump administration’s interim U.S. attorney who brought the charges was not properly appointed.
The dismissal, which was without prejudice, addresses only procedural flaws — not the truth of the allegations.
Rep. Mike Lawler, once considered a top GOP candidate for governor, officially endorsed Rep. Elise Stefanik in her effort to unseat Gov. Kathy Hochul.
“She has taken on the big fights. She has stood up for her values and what she believes in,” Lawler said at a rally for Rockland County Republicans in his Hudson Valley district. “She has stood up for Americans all across this country and New Yorkers who have been forgotten by failed, feckless leadership in Albany.”
Speaking to NY1 political anchor Errol Louis on “Inside City Hall” Monday, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries called Friday’s meeting between President Donald Trump and Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani “a great success.”
"Donald Trump clearly recognizes that Mayor Mamdani is committed to trying to turn things around from an affordability standpoint,” Jeffries said.
With the victory of New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, whether or not New York will take meaningful steps toward universal child care in this upcoming state budget has become a key question in the ramp up to the 2026 legislative session.
Advocates with the Empire State Campaign for Child Care, who have long lobbied the state to set out on a realistic path to a universal system seized on the energy and attention, unveiled on Monday a proposal for initiating next steps that they hope Gov. Kathy Hochul and state lawmakers can get on board with.
The Rockefeller Institute of Government, the think tank that presented reforms to New York’s Foundation Aid formula last year, has come out with a brief proposing a new method to fund the fast-growing group of English Language Learners (ELL) in the state’s public schools.
Instead of using the current funding formula, which Rockefeller describes as “one size fits all," the think tank proposes directing greater funding toward students who have the highest needs.
Mayor Eric Adams is back in the city, but that doesn’t mean New Yorkers are excited to see him.
“Boo!” some chanted.
WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Monday dismissed the criminal cases against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, concluding that the prosecutor who brought the charges at President Donald Trump's urging was illegally appointed by the Justice Department.
The rulings from U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie halt at least for now a pair of prosecutions that had targeted two of the president's most high-profile political opponents and amount to a stunning rebuke of the Trump administration's legal maneuvering to install an inexperienced and loyalist prosecutor willing to file cases.
While Gov. Kathy Hochul was highlighting affordability in New York City, clergy and community leaders in Buffalo were calling on the governor to take action to address the affordability crisis across the state.
They say that rising costs for food, housing and utilities are pushing families to the brink.
The candidates in next year’s governor’s race came after each other following comments President Donald Trump made at his meeting with Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.
Trump was asked if he agreed with Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik — who represents a large swath of upstate New York and is challenging Gov. Kathy Hochul for the governorship — that Mamdani is a jihadist. Stefanik has repeatedly used the word when talking about Mamdani.
Political figures and leaders from both sides of the aisle continued to react to the meeting between President Donald Trump and Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.
John Catsimatidis, the longtime Trump ally and owner of the Gristedes grocery chain, spoke Saturday morning at a turkey giveaway event in Manhattan was hosted by the Police Athletic League and Commissioner Tisch.
President Donald Trump heaped praise on New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani after their meeting at the White House, congratulating him on his win and saying he was “very confident that he can do a very good job.”
Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office after their closed-door conversation, Trump — who had previously labeled the incoming mayor a “communist lunatic” and accused him of antisemitism — struck a much different tone Friday.
New Yorkers know Mamdani. Now, meet the mini-Mamdani’s: young, left-wing progressives copping the incoming mayor’s style, and his politics.
“What Zohran’s election proved is that this city is ready to turn the page on machine politics,” Usamah Andrabi, spokesman for Justice Democrats, said.
Some state lawmakers said they'll consider using opioid settlement dollars to backfill federal cuts to recovery programs in next year's budget, while others plan to fight hard for other solutions to avoid tapping into the fund.
Each year, the state receives millions of dollars from lawsuits against opioid manufacturers and distributors that must be spent on addiction prevention. Facing a difficult budget cycle next session, it's possible the Legislature could decide to use that money to ease the pain of federal cuts.
President Donald Trump has drafted an executive order that would block states from enforcing their own regulations around artificial intelligence.
It’s a move that runs smack into a bill that passed during this year’s legislative session in Albany, and which Gov. Kathy Hochul is considering signing.
The year was 1992, and a little-known insurgent candidate, Nydia Velázquez, had just slayed a giant.
“This is a dream come true for a hivara from el barrio Limones de Yabucoa,” Velázquez said at the time.
The New York state Commission on Ethics and Lobbying In Government (COELIG) has closed the case into allegations against former state Sen. Jeff Klein for sexual harassment by a former staffer, the ethics panel said Friday.
In a 2018 interview with The Huffington Post, former state Senate employee Erica Vladimer claimed that Klein forcibly kissed her outside a bar in Albany in 2015. Vladimer left her job just a few months later. Klein has denied those allegations since they came forward.
This week, Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani announced that he will keep NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch in her role when he takes office in January. Tisch, the department’s 48th commissioner, has led the NYPD with what Mamdani’s team calls a renewed focus on accountability and transparency, overseeing a historic drop in violent crime. The decision signals Mamdani’s willingness to make top appointments based on experience rather than ideology. NY1 investigative reporter Courtney Gross and political reporters Bobby Cuza and Ayana Harry break down Mamdani’s biggest decision so far.
In a wide-ranging conversation with Capital Tonight, Deputy Senate Majority Leader Mike Gianaris set the stage for a legislative session, now less than two months away, which he sees as a test for Democratic lawmakers after a good election night for the party.
“There’s going to be a lot of attention on the priorities that were highlighted as part of the elections this year,” he said. “Universal child care is something we in the Senate have been pushing for a while, the governor seems to be making strides in that direction now.”
Earlier this week, a coalition of environmental advocates called on Gov. Kathy Hochul to include a bill in her executive budget that would repeal 20% of the almost $2 billion in taxpayer subsidies provided to the oil industry by the state of New York.
It’s one example of how the governor is being pressured by clean energy and environmental advocates to remain committed to the goals of the state’s aggressive climate law passed in 2019.
For months, President Donald Trump has lobbed insults and threats at Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani. In many cases, Mamdani has returned them in force.
On Friday, for the first time, the two will meet face-to-face.
Rep. Nydia Velázquez, whose congressional district covers parts of Brooklyn and Queens — including Long Island City, Astoria, Ridgewood, Bushwick, Williamsburg and East New York — has announced she will not seek reelection and will retire at the end of her current term next year.
Her retirement will mark the end of 16 consecutive terms in Congress representing New York's 12th and seventh congressional districts.
MALONE, N.Y. – The North Country is still coming to grips with the fact that another one of its prisons will soon close. The state announced Wednesday that Bare Hill Correctional Facility in Malone will officially be empty in March.
A trip to Malone revealed how this decision could affect locals, and why some area leaders are taking it personally.
Republican U.S. Rep. Claudia Tenney said Thursday that police responded to her private residence in Washington for a report of a broken window.
According to a Facebook post from the New York congresswoman, authorities responded to the residence Thursday morning, and included a photo of broken glass. Tenney said no one was hurt and thanked law enforcement for their response.
Biotech entrepreneur and Cuban American immigrant Joseph Hernandez is running for New York state comptroller in 2026, he announced Thursday.
Hernandez will seek the Republican nomination for the post currently held by Democrat Tom DiNapoli.
With the vote on the release of the Epstein files and the end of the longest government shutdown in American history, we talked with Jack O’Donnell of O’Donnell and Associates and David Catalfamo of Capital Public Strategies, about the political week that was.
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The participation rate for individuals with disabilities in the New York workforce has risen over the last few years, but only about a quarter of them a part of the labor force, according to a report released Thursday by state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli.
The comptroller said the disability workforce for those at least 16 years old and older rose 4.6% between 2019 and 2024, while only 28.8% of those with disabilities participated in the workforce in 2024, 3.5% below the national rate.
Assemblyman Robert Smullen, a Republican from Johnstown, will officially launch his campaign Thursday to represent the North Country in Congress.
Smullen will officially kick off his campaign for the 21st Congressional District 5 p.m. Thursday at the Johnstown-Gloversville Holiday Inn.
While Zohran Mamdani will be the youngest mayor in more than 125 years, his top strategist is even younger — 26-year-old Morris Katz.
Katz joined NY1’s Errol Louis to discuss Mamdani’s historic win, reflecting on the campaign’s digital strategy to meet younger voters in one of their favorite hangouts: social media. He also spoke about the tactics used by Andrew Cuomo’s campaign and their impact on the Jewish community. And finally, Katz offered a critique of the broader political consulting industry, saying it lacks authenticity and accountability.
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and President Donald Trump are expected to meet with each other on Friday, the president announced Wednesday evening.
“Communist Mayor of New York City, Zohran ‘Kwame’ Mamdani, has asked for a meeting. We have agreed that this meeting will take place at the Oval Office on Friday, November 21st. Further details to follow!” Trump wrote on the social media platform Truth Social.
Democrats in the state Legislature are preparing for a fierce debate next session over calls to reform a controversial 2017 criminal justice law that prevents youth offenders to be tried as adults.
The law, known as Raise the Age, moved 16- and 17-year-olds out of adult court and increased criminal responsibility in the state to 18.
If you hear the sound of a whistle, it could mean that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are in the area.
The whistles have become the latest tool for immigrant advocates and concerned neighbors to fight back against ICE.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Wednesday addressed the announcement this week that Bare Hill Correctional Facility, a medium security prison in Franklin County, will close in March and Collins Correctional in Erie County will be consolidated.
The closure came as staffing across the state was decimated by the three-week illegal correction officer strike over the winter after which the Hochul administration fired about 2,000 correction officers who did not return to work amid a deal to end the strike, making an already challenging situation worse.
The federal government's cancellation of U.S. naturalization ceremonies in several New York counties is drawing criticism, even from some Republicans in the state.
Federal officials indefinitely canceled an upcoming U.S. naturalization ceremony in Binghamton, leaving dozens of families in limbo ahead of taking their much-anticipated oaths of allegiance to become U.S. citizens, Mayor Jared Kraham said.
One of every seven New Yorkers received Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits in 2024, according to the state Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance.
State Attorney General Letitia James is asking the federal government to clarify some of the new guidelines she says are wrong. She and 20 other attorneys general sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins.
Struggling to find an affordable place to live and facing the prospects of living on the street earlier this year, Alica Burkhart and her toddler sought temporary shelter through Onondaga County.
With shelter space for families at capacity, the county placed mom and son in the Budget Inn on Syracuse’s south side. The hotel is located next to an abandoned restaurant in an area of the city that is deemed a food desert. The hotel has been described as outdated, with electrical problems and rodents.
Over the past four months, Spectrum News investigated the use of hotels for families experiencing homelessness around New York state.
The hotels are used as a backup of sorts when homeless shelters are at capacity, but dependence on them has increased significantly in recent years, with the families in them sometimes living in dirty and less-than-desirable conditions without many of the resources and services that shelters provide to get them back on their feet.
Former U.S. Senate candidate Joe Pinion is considering running for New York's 21st Congressional District occupied by Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik as she makes a bid for governor in 2026.
In a statement Wednesday, Pinion said the state Republican Party must be reinvigorated in order to compete in races next year.
More than $2.6 million in stolen goods in New York has been recovered by the State Police Organized Retail Theft Task Force since it launched a year and a half ago with the goal to crack down on retail theft, Gov. Kathy Hochul’s office announced Wednesday.
Since April 2024, authorities have made 1,224 arrests and 2,146 criminal charges related to retail theft, contributing to a 13.6% decrease in retail theft year-over-year in New York City and a 13% decrease in larceny in areas outside of New York City between January and June of this year, Hochul said.
The state Department of Correction & Community Supervision is driving the pressure on Gov. Kathy Hochul to dilute reforms that strengthen prison oversight and accountability after a death in a state facility, lawmakers said Tuesday.
Legislative staff and the governor's office are in deep negotiations over an omnibus bill passed to address a culture of prison violence after two incarcerated men — Robert Brooks and Messiah Nantwi — were beaten to death by correction officers in the last year.
In an exclusive interview with Capital Tonight, New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision Commissioner Dan Martuscello addressed concerns over the Hochul administration’s announcement Tuesday that Bare Hill Correctional Facility, a medium security prison in Franklin County, will close in March.
Additionally, a portion of Collins Correctional Facility in Erie County will be consolidated, with one side of the campus is being closed.
A meeting between President Donald Trump and Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani would get as much attention as an international summit — and it seems it will happen even before Mamdani becomes mayor.
After publicly talking tough and trading threats, both men say they are preparing to put aside differences for the greater good: New York City.
New York City's chief fiscal officer Brad Lander, who was arrested two months ago protesting conditions at an immigration holding facility, chose Tuesday to go to trial on a misdemeanor obstruction charge rather than accept a deal that would have made the case go away in six months.
“I want a trial,” said Lander, the city's comptroller and an ally of Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.
Enrollment across the State University of New York campus system has increased for the third consecutive year, Gov. Kathy Hochul's office announced Tuesday.
This is the first segment of gains three years in a row since 2007-2009. The fall 2022 to fall 2023 year was the first enrollment increase in 10 years.
A portion of the Collins Correctional Facility campus will be consolidated "to more efficiently deploy staff and manage the facility," according to the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision.
DOCCS describes this as one side of the campus being closed.
A former aide to outgoing Mayor Eric Adams was sentenced Tuesday to three years' probation, including a year of home confinement, for soliciting illegal campaign contributions for Adams.
Mohamed Bahi embraced supporters in a Manhattan federal courtroom after learning that he would be spared prison. His confinement will allow him to leave home for work and attend religious services, among other reasons.
A federal judge dismissed a U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit challenging a New York law that shields individuals without documentation from being detained at or on their way to court, state Attorney General Letitia James said Tuesday.
New York’s Protect Our Courts Act, passed in 2020, bans U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials from arresting people who are coming and going from courthouses or in court for proceedings unless they have a warrant signed by a judge. The Trump administration in June sued the state over the policy, with U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi saying the law “prevents illegal aliens from apprehension."
Multiple lawmakers have confirmed that the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision will announce the closure of Bare Hill Correctional Facility in Franklin County Tuesday morning.
They say staff will be moved to neighboring facilities. Upstate and Franklin Correctional Facilities are adjacent to Bare Hill.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s job approval and favorability ratings are both down from last month while maintaining a 20-point lead in a potential race for governor over Republican U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik if she becomes the GOP nominee next year, according to a Siena University poll of registered voters released Tuesday.
According to the poll, Hochul has a 43-45% favorability rating, down from 45-42% in September, while her job approval rating stands at 52-43%, down from 54-40%. Stefanik has a 28-36% favorability rating, up from 21-34% in September. The poll found the incumbent governor leads the North Country congresswoman 52-32%.
Gov. Kathy Hochul knows that speculation over whether or not she plans to raise taxes this year isn’t going anywhere.
“I know it’s a burning question on all of your minds,” she told reporters in the Red Room at the State Capitol Monday before attempting to punt any further discussion of the matter to the unveiling of her State of the State and Executive Budget in January.
There aren’t many more controversial subjects right now than tariffs. The economic plan is getting plenty of praise from inside of the White House, is also getting some harsh reactions from some outside of it.
“When tariffs go up, traffic goes down,” Ogdensburg Bridge and Port Authority Chairman Sam Burns said.
State leaders are worried they’ll have to delay millions of dollars in federal aid for New Yorkers who need help staying warm this winter.
The state expects to open applications for the Home Energy Assistance Program, or HEAP in just one week on Nov. 24.
Planning is now underway for what might have once seemed like an unlikely political sit-down.
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani revealed Monday he wants to meet with the president, saying, “My team reached out to the White House to fulfill a commitment during the campaign that showed willingness to meet with anyone and everyone.”
They were high-stakes presentations to the state’s Gaming Facility Location Board — which will make its official recommendations on what projects get a state gaming license in just two weeks.
Upping the ante, the five-member board toured the three sites on Monday.
District attorneys have been urging the New York state Legislature to reform its “Raise the Age” law since its passage in 2017. “Raise the Age” refers a series of laws that raises the age of criminal responsibility for young people to 18 for many crimes. DAs are urging stricter penalties for young people accused of more serious crimes like those involving gun possession – an issue which became more urgent on July 4 when 10 people were shot in the city of Albany during an especially violent Independence Day celebration.
Advocates argue the law would serve young people and the community more effectively if funding for programming supports was adequate and had been in place before the law’s implementation.
Brooklyn City Councilmember Chi Ossé is considering a primary challenge to Rep. Hakeem Jeffries.
Ossé, a Democrat who represents Bedford-Stuyvesant and parts of Crown Heights, confirmed Monday that he is mulling a bid to unseat the House minority leader.
Immigration lawyers and the New York chapter of the ACLU have filed lawsuits that question the legality of the warrants used in the immigration raid conducted in Cato on Sept. 4.
Perry Grossman, the supervising attorney for the New York Civil Liberties Union, said he filed a motion to unseal the records that detail the arguments made by federal authorities to obtain a so-called “Blackie’s” warrant.
Total lobbying spending in New York state reached nearly $62 million from July to August, according to preliminary data released Monday by the state Commission on Ethics and Lobbying in Government (COELIG).
That amount is down $3.3 million, or 5%, from May to June; and down $4.8 million, or 7.2%, from March to April.
The New York State Office of Mental Health on Monday announced that $6 million will be made available for communities to create health-led behavioral health crisis response teams.
This comes following recommendations from the Daniel’s Law Task Force, which was established following the 2020 death of Daniel Prude while in Rochester police custody during a mental health incident.
Using the Saratoga National Historic Park as a backdrop, Sen. Chuck Schumer on Monday called on federal leaders to restore funding to the Legacy Restoration Fund, which supports National Park Service projects.
The fund addresses maintenance and repair needs, as well as large-scale projects, in national parks, and contributed more than $6 million to help the Saratoga battlefield site improve its main tour road, pathway and interpretive signs.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Donald Trump indicated Sunday that he plans to meet with New York City's mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and said they'll "work something out," in what could be a detente for the Republican president and Democratic political star who have cast each other as political foils.
Trump has for months slammed Mamdani, falsely labeling him as a "communist" and predicting the ruin of his hometown, New York, if the democratic socialist was elected. He also threatened to deport Mamdani, who was born in Uganda and became a naturalized American citizen, and to pull federal money from the city.
State health officials say that as we approach the Thanksgiving holiday, COVID vaccine rates are lagging behind those of past years.
According to New York State Health Commissioner Dr. James McDonald, COVID-19 cases are on the rise in New York. He says for every person in the hospital with flu, three people are hospitalized with COVID-19, and this year's vaccine rates are 30% behind last year.
On Monday, the city will take its next step toward bringing casinos to the five boroughs.
The five-person Gaming Facility Location Board is scheduled to visit the three remaining sites vying for a downstate license, hearing presentations from applicants and assessing factors such as parking and neighborhood impact.
Upper West Side Assemblyman Micah Lasher wants to fight President Donald Trump in Congress with creative legislating.
“I’ve been one of, if not the, legislature’s leaders on legislation to fight back against Trump,” Lasher said.
The federal government is finally open but the issue of extending Affordable Care Act subsidies has not been resolved.
Hudson Valley Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Lawler co-sponsors a bill to extend the subsidies by one year to give Congress time to address the skyrocketing costs of health care.
The New York state Board of Regents is considering a proposal that would require all high school students earn a minimum of one credit in “Career and Technical Education” (CTE) before they graduate.
If approved, the state’s Boards of Cooperative Educational Services, or BOCES, say they are ready to step up and help students meet the new demand.
Inside the walls of City Hall there is a race happening — it is not seen, and is only spoken about behind closed doors, but it is crucial to the future of the city — the race for council speaker.
Five candidates have thrown their names in the ring: Councilmembers Crystal Hudson, Julie Menin, Selvena Brooks-Powers, Amanda Farías and Chris Marte.
The government shutdown had New Yorkers who depend on food assistance, like SNAP, checking their EBT cards as they experienced funding delays.
For some public housing residents at Harborview Terrace in Hell’s Kitchen, a food pantry crammed in a small space was a lifeline.
Elected officials and administrators of a hospital in downtown Brooklyn are sounding the alarm that the hospital could be forced to shut down by the end of the year if Gov. Kathy Hochul doesn’t come to the rescue.
It could become a political headache for the governor ahead of her reelection campaign next year.
The government shutdown may be over, but Americans are still paying the price. The government reopened this week without a resolution on the expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies that make having health insurance possible for millions of Americans.
As open enrollment is underway, people insured through the ACA could see their premium insurance rates double, or even triple. Those who rely on the subsidies are left to make a difficult decision: pay more for essential coverage or forego care altogether.
A Trump administration lawsuit filed against the city of Rochester earlier this year over its sanctuary city policy has been thrown out by a federal judge.
On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Frank Geraci dismissed the case filed by the U.S. Department of Justice. Geraci found in his judgment that the DOJ's complaint is now moot because the city adopted a new sanctuary policy over the summer.
With the 2025 elections in the rearview mirror, attention is quickly turning to the 2026 midterm elections, where control of the U.S. House of Representatives will be determined. The last few years, New York has been a bastion for competitive races, and the state will likely be watched closely for those once again next year.
Cook Political Report, the independent nonpartisan index and analysis group, released their latest set of race ratings on Thursday, with six seats in New York it considers to be competitive next year.
Progressives held rallies outside U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer's New York offices on Friday, demanding he step down as minority leader for Democrats joining Republicans in voting to reopen the federal government without a firm commitment to extend Affordable Care Act subsidies.
Indivisible New York organized grassroots rallies at Schumer’s offices to protest what members said was his inability to unify the Democratic Caucus of the Senate and maintain the shutdown to avoid massive health insurance cost hikes for millions of Americans.
The estimated value of the New York State Common Retirement Fund was $291.4 billion at the end of the second quarter of state fiscal year 2025-26, state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli said Friday.
For the three-month period ending Sept. 30, fund investments returned an estimated 4.13%, the comptroller said, and 9.82% for the first six months of the fiscal year.
The Adirondack Park Agency's full board voted unanimously Friday morning to set an adjudicatory hearing to further review an application to build a weapons range for testing howitzer cannon barrels in Lewis, Essex County.
In making its vote, the board backed a recommendation from its regulations committee made Thursday, and cited significant issues related to approval criteria. The Adirondack Park Agency (APA) will now schedule the adjudicatory hearing, which will be overseen by an administrative judge.
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — The recent government shutdown disrupted everything from paychecks to travel plans, and for many families, the effects were felt immediately.
Economists say that while shutdowns often end quickly, the stress they create can linger far longer.
New York City is one week into the transition from Mayor Eric Adams to Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, and the administration is starting to take shape. This week, Mamdani named Dean Fuleihan as first deputy mayor and Elle Bisgaard-Church as chief of staff. NY1’s investigative reporter Courtney Gross, political reporter Bobby Cuza and statehouse reporter Bernadette Hogan break down what we can expect from these changes at City Hall.
After that, there’s already another race to watch, the contest for City Council speaker. Five candidates are vying for the position held by Adrienne Adams. The "Off Topic" team will tell you where things stand.
Queens Rep. Gregory Meeks — whose district includes Jamaica, Hillside and Far Rockaway — joined “Inside City Hall” to discuss the reopening of the government after the longest shutdown in U.S. history, and why he voted against the temporary funding bill.
Tap the video player above to watch the interview.
Progressive lawmakers and environmental advocates were fuming Thursday, one day after it was revealed that New York state will pause its all-electric building law pending a court decision in a lawsuit brought by gas and construction trade groups.
It comes just days after the Hochul administration infuriated those same groups by approving a Trump-backed gas pipeline, and then cut a deal with cryptocurrency mining company Greenidge to renew an air permit associated with their Central New York facility.
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is facing a bumpy transition — courtesy of Mayor Eric Adams.
“It is no surprise that Mayor Adams is using his final weeks and months to cement a legacy of dysfunction and inconsistency,” Mamdani said Thursday.
New York state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli will face a second Democratic challenger in his 2026 reelection bid.
Raj Goyle is an entrepreneur and attorney with a unique resume. After graduating from Harvard Law School, Goyle worked with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, as well as the ACLU. He co-founded a legal defense company which he later sold. He served as a Democratic state legislator in the state of Kansas and founded Phone Free New York, which helped secure passage of the state’s bell-to-bell ban on cellphones.
New York state Assemblymember Amy Paulin and a coalition of faith leaders and elected officials held a rally in Westchester on Thursday to urge Gov. Kathy Hochul to sign a bill legalizing medically assisted suicide for terminally ill adults with less than six months to live.
The so-called “Medical Aid in Dying Act” passed both houses of the state Legislature this year after a more than 10-year battle.
Another Republican might be throwing their hat in the ring for the race for New York governor in 2026.
Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman was at the state Capitol in Albany on Thursday as part of his statewide tour.
The federal government is now re-opened and representatives across New York are split on the decision to end the record 43-day shutdown.
Republican U.S. Rep. Nick Langworthy, representing New York's 23rd Congressional District, voted in favor of the spending bill and condemned Democrats in the process.
Dozens from around the North Country gathered Wednesday night at Jefferson Community College for a public forum on nuclear energy hosted by state Assemblyman Scott Gray.
As part of Gray's ongoing effort to lay the groundwork and build support for a nuclear power plant, the Republican from Watertown and experts from the college discussed the current landscape of nuclear power in New York and its future.
New Yorker editor David Remnick and the host of "The New Yorker Radio Hour” joined NY1’s Errol Louis to discuss the big mayoral win of Zohran Mamdani and looks at why he strongly resonated with younger voters. Remnick also reflected on the challenges of covering President Donald Trump, the ongoing war in Ukraine, and his own remarkable tenure at The New Yorker and Netflix’s upcoming documentary, “The New Yorker at 100.”
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New York state is doing OK financially, budget officials say, as questions swirl around tax hikes for the wealthy, universal child care and free buses in New York City.
After a year of concerning messaging from state leaders over New York’s fiscal reality and the impact of budget cuts stemming from the federal budget bill, according to the state Division of Budget, things are looking better than expected despite a $26.8 billion cumulative budget gap by 2029.
In January 2014, Kathy Sheehan became the Capital City’s first female mayor, inheriting a large debt, a budget shortfall and a downtown filled with buildings exempt from property taxes.
After leading the city through the COVID-19 pandemic, a riot, a rise and fall in gun violence, and a televised insult courtesy of basketball analyst Rebecca Lobo, Sheehan is leaving the city with a $400 million gift from the state of New York and a new mayor in Dorcey Applyrs.
