Gov. Kathy Hochul held a press conference on Wednesday in Albany detailing several proposals from her upcoming 2026 State of the State.

Gov. Kathy Hochul says she's proposing legislation to crack down on plastic "ghost guns" and parts with a law to prevent making them with 3D printers.

Gov. Kathy Hochul is looking to pass more safeguards on social media use by youngsters this year, including an expansion of age verification laws and new restrictions on artificial intelligence chatbots.

State legislators are back this week and Governor Kathy Hochul’s office touted a couple of interesting accomplishments yesterday. One was the effects of New York City congestion pricing over the past year.

Meanwhile, an anti-Zionist group that led a protest outside a synagogue in November is planning two more this week.

One of the sillier sideshows of local politics is Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Gov. Kathy Hochul’s contest over who gave President Donald Trump the biggest earful over Operation Absolute Resolve.

On the one-year anniversary of congestion pricing on Monday, Gov. Kathy Hochul declared that the program has yielded “extraordinary” results in reduced traffic and increased economic activity, “beyond what we could have expected.

The officials also acknowledged troublesome trends in assaults on public officials and a rise in youth violence.

Gov. Kathy Hochul, Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) head Janno Lieber led the afternoon press conference for congestion pricing, which they say has raised $550 million for the agency, led to increased ridership and improved transit times.

On Jan. 5, Gov. Kathy Hochul touted the success of Manhattan's congestion pricing program a year after it debuted.