New York state has released its 2025 State Energy Plan, a long-range policy blueprint that will guide energy decisions through 2040 as officials attempt to balance reliability, affordability, economic growth and climate mandates.

Hundreds of schools across New York, including dozens on Long Island, have to take old water fountains and taps out of commission.

New York is poised to become the 13th state to allow medication-assisted suicide for those who have terminal illnesses that are expected to end their lives within six months. Gov. Kathy Hochul said Wednesday that she would sign the bill into law, which comes with a battery of requirements, including some she requested.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul says she has reached a deal with state legislative leaders to approve a bill to give terminally ill people the legal ability to end their own lives with prescribed medicatio

Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik says she is suspending her campaign for governor of New York and will not seek reelection to Congress.

Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik said Friday that she is ending her campaign for New York governor and will not run for re-election to her House seat next year. In a lengthy post to X, Stefanik, a staunch ally of President Donald Trump, wrote that she had "not come to this decision lightly for our family."

Following the murders of two Black men by corrections officers, Gov. Hochul signed legislation requiring surveillance throughout all facilities and expanded death reporting requirements.

The bill, which lawmakers passed in June, will be modified to more closely match a similar law in California, at Big Tech’s urging.

New York is poised to become the largest U.S. state to authorize assisted dying. Pro-assisted dying group Death with Dignity’s Chief Marketing Officer, Elaine Fong, whose mother used Washington State’s Death with Dignity law in 2016, attended Wednesday's announcement in New York.