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Members of New York’s Conservative Party, many of whom are also Republicans, held a press conference in Albany County on Monday, calling for a new mandatory minimum sentence for someone convicted of killing a police officer.

Very sick or injured people are going to have a little better chance of survival under new state legislation allowing blood transfusions in air ambulance services.

New York Republicans say bail reform is the cause of the state’s increase in crime, and that Democrats need to fix it when they head back to Albany next month.

Roughly 60 years after fire swept through its historic district, the Village of Lancaster's West Main Street has been extended, allowing a partial shopping district to one day grow back in full.

State Republican lawmakers are blasting Gov. Andrew Cuomo for extending the 11 p.m. curfew for bars and restaurants until May 6, and Senate Democrats for…

New York State Health Commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker declined to testify at Monday’s public hearing on the COVID-19 crisis in upstate nursing homes,…

For the first time since Earl Brydges left the job as Republican leader in the State Senate at the end of 1972, a Western New Yorker might step back into…

Sweeping reforms that will end cash bail for all misdemeanor and nonviolent felony charges in New York state take effect in January. But some law…

New state legislation expanding benefits for New York crime victims is now in effect. The law signed into law last summer allows individuals who have been…

A Cheektowaga man has been awarded the New York State Senate Liberty Medal for helping a Wyoming County Sheriff's deputy arrest a suspect. John Harzynski…