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Courtesy Annemarie TubinisNew York is less than a week away from the deadline for the 2025 state budget. Every year, people with disabilities, their families, and the agencies that serve them watch this date closely, because the results of the budget vote will determine living opportunities for tens of thousands of New Yorkers. This week on the Disabilities Beat, we highlight one family's decades-long story of fighting for their loved one's opportunity to live in his community, which is now threatened due to a workforce crisis that many advocates attribute to underfunding in the state budget. -
Pat Bradley/WAMCTalks over the late state budget are continuing for a third weekend at the New York state capitol in Albany.
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In less than a month, Kathy Hochul will give her first State of the State address as a governor elected by the voters, and she’s already given some hints about what she will make a priority. -
The State University of New York system has a new permanent chancellor — its former state education commissioner, John King. -
Gov. Kathy Hochul said Saturday that New York has experienced the most amount of snowfall in a 24-hour period in the history of the state. -
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Kathy Hochul and Lee Zeldin both have close associations with the current and former presidents, and both have tried to use that to their advantage during the campaign. -
Environmentalists, conservation groups and union leaders are joining together to promote a $4.2 billion dollar environmental proposal that would invest in fighting climate change at a time when NYS is experiencing increasingly violent and damaging storms. -
The state’s crime rate is once again an issue in the New York governor’s race after two teenagers were shot on Sunday outside the home of the Republican candidate, Long Island Rep. Lee Zeldin. -
New York State Attorney General Letitia James has gone to court in an effort to keep a new, tougher gun law on the books in New York. -
Rep. Lee Zeldin, the Republican candidate for governor who has made crime an issue in his campaign, saw gun violence literally hit close to home on Sunday when a shooting left two people injured in his front yard. -
New York's latest attempt to restrict who can carry a handgun in public and where firearms can be brought was picked apart Thursday by a federal judge, who ruled that multiple provisions in a state law passed this year are unconstitutional.
