It’s no surprise that lobbyist Tonio Burgos is fundraising for Andrew Cuomo’s campaign for New York City mayor. Burgos worked for 15 years for Andrew’s father, former Governor Mario Cuomo. He has long been loyal to the family. But you wouldn’t know that from the mayoral candidate’s ...

ALBANY — New York City’s plan to let noncitizen residents vote in local elections is dead, struck down by the state’s highest court in a ruling issued Thursday morning. The state Court of Appeals issued its decision in the case that has been making its way through the courts since ...

It’s never a good time to lose your job — but now may be an especially bad time to get laid off in New York. That’s because the state’s unemployment benefit has been frozen for six years, so the maximum weekly payment is $504. That’s less than a full-time salary at the state’s ...

NEW YORK — When Nikelle Inman started a new job coaching first-generation college students, she looked forward to meeting with them one-on-one to talk about how to surmount obstacles and find resources to succeed. Instead, she and her fellow success coaches at a community college in North ...

ALBANY — Gov. Kathy Hochul seems to have opened the door to permitting the roughly 2,000 state prison correctional officers who were fired last week to work for other law enforcement agencies in New York, something that sheriffs across the state have been asking her to do. After not ...

NEW YORK — The U.S. Justice Department is investigating whether Columbia University concealed ''illegal aliens'' on its campus, one of its top officials said Friday, as the Trump administration intensified its campaign to deport foreigners who participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations ...