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Lobbying for and against the minimum wage is intensifying at the State Capitol, with just over two weeks to go until the budget deadline.Union workers…

Local governments and schools say they are struggling over a property tax cap that will allow what amounts to a 0 percent increase in tax levies in the…

Albany County officials have recently tried to reassure the public over concerns about the crude oil trains that travel through the city. Officials have…

The steady drum beat of scandal after scandal in the New York State legislature has led many to wonder whether lawmakers can focus on passing any major…

As New York sorts out how to spend millions of federal dollars for railroad upgrades, officials in Albany and Rensselaer are hoping some of that money can…

How big a deal is big data?It's pretty big. The question is how we should be handling all the massive amounts of information we’re collecting. The…

Despite Albany’s prominence as the state capital, over the years, large swaths of the city’s urban core have been either destroyed or in decline.Earlier…

The New York DREAM Act would make it easier for undocumented immigrants to pay for higher education by giving them access to state aid programs."I'm not…

In a flurry of late night (and early morning) activity, lawmakers in Albany passed a bill that will bring about a major expansion to New York's DNA…