Governor Kathy Hochul

Are you operating a 'ghost car'? Would you know one if you saw one? New York is cracking down on this illegal activity.

Governor Kathy Hochul says making this COVID-era policy permanent will help keep bars and restaurants afloat.

The Empire State government collects a whole lot of our money through taxes and fees, have you ever wondered how they determine what to spend it on?

The first draft of the 2024/25 New York State budget has been released and the Empire State is set to spend billions of dollars.

New York Governor Kathy Hochul plans introduce legislation that will limit access to social media for children in the state. Here's what we know so far.

New York roadways will be much safer in 2024, thanks to this new law.

More than 2,000 New Yorkers are about to receive an additional paycheck this year. Are you one of them?

Governor Kathy Hochul vowed that those who commit hate crimes against the Jewish community will be "prosecuted and held accountable."

Applying to college can be costly for any student. Many, high school seniors have no idea what they really want to do or where they want to spend the next four years of their lives.

Gov. Hochul has directed the New York State Liquor Authority to make a change ahead of the Buffalo Bills' Sunday morning game, and Bills' fans are thrilled.

The missing 9-year-old Upstate New York girl who was believed to be abducted has been found alive and well.

A new groundbreaking law has gone into effect in New York to help close the wage gap.

In 2021, New York State voters convincingly rejected a referendum to expand mail-in voting. In an attempt to circumvent the wishes of their constituents, the state Senate and Assembly passed The New York Early Voter Act on June 9th.

Reports came out Tuesday, that Governor Hochul plans to have up to 1500 migrants transported to various SUNY campuses throughout New York State. The plan is to house the migrants in the unoccupied dorms during the summer months. Then what?

Last summer, for about a three week period on New York's south shore beaches, ocean swimmers were on shark alert. Six victims were bitten during that time period in rather shallow water, on the white sands of Long Island. This year, New York's Governor Kathy Hochul says that the state parks are ready to take on the monsters of the deep.

It's one thing to be so good at baseball, that the player is enshrined in the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY. It's another thing, when that same player faced the challenge of serving in the United States military during wartime. The U.S. Navy decided those players were special.

A change is coming for patrons of the 2023 New York State Fair, as dictated by the state budget agreed to by Gov. Kathy Hochul and state lawmakers.

Beat the heat this summer with a free air conditioner that is being made available to New Yorkers.

After being elected in November, navigating her own Democratic party has not been easy for Governor Kathy Hochul. After suffering an embarrassing loss, when the Senate rejected Justice Hector LaSalle as New York's chief judge, the governor was forced to pivot to a more liberal Justice Rowan D. Wilson, for a quick win.

The New York State budget is 18 days late. Even though April 1st is the same date each year, the budget deadline seemed to sneak up on our state legislators in 2023.

Burning cigarettes, burning money.

Former Governor Andrew Cuomo got the Start-Up NY program rolling in 2014. The program offered a decade of tax-free status to tech companies that would set up operations in New York State and create partnerships with colleges and universities in the region.

In November, Kathy Hochul became the first woman elected governor in New York State history. Hochul has weathered the storm, after taking office in the middle of Andrew Cumomo's tumultuous last term. The 57th governor of the Empire State delivered her State of the State address last week. So, what do Hochul's constituents think of the governor's job performance? A new Siena Poll has the answer.

Governor Kathy Hochul announced massive totals generated in New York from sports wagering, with hundreds of millions of dollars going straight to the state.

There are nearly 100,000 volunteer firefighters in New York State. According to the Firefighters Association of the State of New York, those volunteers provide service hours that save the citizens of the Empire State over $3.8 billion per year. It's difficult to quantify what those volunteers really saved those that they have served. Then there are the volunteer Ambulance & EMS workers, jobs so stressful their numbers are tumbling each year. In December, Governor Kathy Hochul signed a bill introduced by Democratic Assemblyman Ken Zebrowski and state Sen. Elijah Reichlin-Melnick that may be a way of keeping those volunteers.

In many counties in New York State, condominiums and co-ops are taxed at a lesser rate than single-family homes. The tax break has been a big reason that condos have been a popular retirement choice in the Empire State. New York City and Nassau County have separate assessment laws due to overall population. Some, now former, state legislators proposed a bill that would change that tax advantage for new condo and co-op owners in the rest of New York State. The governor, enjoying her first elected-inauguration days ago, did not agree with the proposed tax.

With the city of Buffalo in the midst of a deadly blizzard and a governor declared state of emergency, including a complete travel ban, the Buffalo Bills players were videoed driving out of the team parking lot on Christmas day after their bus arrived from Rochester and according to one official. All of this was without permission.

Last week, in the midst of the holiday season, New York's Governor, Kathy Hochul granted clemency to 13 individuals that exhibited remorse, demonstrated the effects of their rehabilitation, and have displayed a commitment to improving themselves and their communities. Among the 13 grantees are two prisoners that are currently serving sentences for murder and a woman that is a domestic violence survivor, in prison for manslaughter for the death of her abuser. Another woman convicted of the same crime was absent from the list.

In 2023 you won't have to ask how much a job pays in New York. Employers will be required to post salaries and more.

Oysters are delicacy enjoyed by people around the world. Whether it's on raw on the half-shell with some lemon, fried to perfection with Old Bay seasoning or sautéed over pasta with wine and garlic. Oyster farming is nearly a $70 million agriculture industry in New York State. The tasty mollusks also happen to be environmental dynamos. Currently, tens of millions of the shellfish, not to be consumed by humans, are being used as a natural filter for the polluted waters off of New York City. However, an expansion of a project that has shown to increase the growth of consumable oysters in New York waters has been shelved by Governor Kathy Hochul.