New York State News

State comptroller Tom DiNapoli calls for more psychiatric beds and telehealth services amid increasing mental health needs statewide.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul vetoed a number of bills in the waning days of 2023, and that has led to some lingering disappointment in 2024.

NYS has not yet reported any cases of the new Covid-19 variant, BA.2.86. State health officials are vigilantly watching out for the variant that's already circulating in parts of the country.

Labor Commissioner Rebecca Reardon and other officials appeared at Tuesday’s opening of the Saratoga County Fair to reassure the public that the rides are closely monitored.

By 2030, three dozen New York counties will have almost a third of their population aged 60 or older.

Currently, 10 states and Washington, D.C. have medical aid-in-dying laws.

Survivors of sexual harassment want to see a bill passed in the final weeks of the New York state legislative session that would ban most forms of nondisclosure agreements. The survivors, including several women who worked at Fox News, say the current law has loopholes that protect sexual predators.

Tirzah Patterson will dedicate this Mother’s Day to the hardest part of a mother’s job, trying to help her child make sense of tragedy.

Beginning this year, the state will start to withhold hundreds of millions of federal dollars it usually passes to counties to fund Medicaid, the health insurance program for low-income people.

A report from the State Comptrollers office shows that local sales taxes increased by 7% over the first quarter of the year.