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Over 100 criminal justice and progressive groups have written a letter to Governor Kathy Hochul, asking her to appoint a new chief judge who has represented the most vulnerable people in society and looked out for defendants’ rights.
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As the nation’s economic uncertainty continues, with a volatile stock market, higher gas prices and inflation, New York state’s budget forecast has also suffered a reversal of fortune. Karen DeWitt takes a look at what’s changed since the budget was settled in the spring.
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The legal battles over redistricting are still not over. While the state Senate and congressional lines have been resolved by a court-appointed special master, arguments continue over who will draw the new state Assembly lines, after a court ruled that those lines were also unconstitutionally gerrymandered.
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Governor Kathy Hochul said gun safety laws passed after the Buffalo mass shooting that killed 10 people are reporting some success.
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With a little less than three months until Election Day in New York, Governor Kathy Hochul is comfortably ahead of her challenger Lee Zeldin. But as Karen DeWitt reports, in a volatile political climate, nothing is for certain.
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Wednesday marks a year since Andrew Cuomo, embroiled in a sexual harassment scandal, announced that he would resign as governor of New York state.
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The Republican candidate for governor, Congressman Lee Zeldin, appeared Monday with other federal and state officials at a farm in Albany County to urge Democrats in power in state government to reverse a plan to phase in a mandatory 40-hour workweek for farm laborers.
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Karen DeWitt spoke with the state’s health commissioner, Dr. Mary Bassett, who said the best protection for kids is to get vaccinated.
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Governor Kathy Hochul on Thursday defended her opposition to make more changes to the state’s bail reform laws.
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New York Governor Kathy Hochul said she and state health officials are confronting the ongoing outbreaks of two diseases, COVID-19 and monkeypox. She also said the state is launching two programs to better respond to future health crises.