Ithaca Mayor Laura Lewis, who served as acting mayor for most of 2022, called her time leading the city "challenging."

The 2023 New York state legislative session began Wednesday with legislative leaders saying they want to focus on solving the housing affordability crisis, improving public safety, and working together in a bipartisan manner.

Gov. Tom Wolf will wrap up eight years in office next month, having steered Pennsylvania through unpredictable times when the Democrat made life-and-death decisions in the ravaging COVID-19 pandemic and managed the battleground state’s presidential election amid unprecedented Republican efforts to overturn it.

The measure, which would increase the current base pay of $110,000 a year, could be voted on as early as Thursday.

Governor Kathy Hochul wants to build a lot of affordable housing, but she says there are barriers to that unless developers are offered tax breaks.

A report found that despite a lack of transparency, the missteps do not constitute an ethics violation.