Foundation Aid is the single-largest source of financial support for public schools in the state, sending billions of dollars to Nassau and Suffolk counties alone.

NEW YORK -- New York Gov. Kathy Hochul revealed she is planning to call for a statewide ban on cellphones in schools next week. A cellphone ban would alleviate concerns over students getting too distracted and make schools safer, Hochul said in an exclusive interview Thursday with CBS News New York.

New York City Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Thursday that she is deploying more police officers to the New York City subway system.

Gov. Kathy Hochul has green activists seeing red. The governor blindsided environmentalists for postponing a controversial “cap and invest” program that critics warned would send gas and home-heating oil prices soaring.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul laid out an ambitious agenda for 2025 during her State of the State address at the Hart Theater in Albany on Tuesday.

ALBANY, New York — Gov. Kathy Hochul wants to cut state income taxes by $1 billion over the next two years — part of an agenda aimed at combating voters’ economic concerns that helped deliver President-elect Donald Trump’s victory. The Democratic governor is also trying to improve her own political standing ahead of her 2026 reelection.

The two successful programs help empower students with financial, academic & other support to boost graduation rates, and close opportunity gaps.

The Democratic governor is set to announce free tuition for New Yorkers aged 25 to 55 studying nursing, teaching or engineering.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced a plan to offer free tuition for certain associate degree programs at state and city colleges for residents between the ages of 25 and 55.

The governor also said the state will take steps that could lead to the first expansion of nuclear power in decades.

Albany $400 Million” doesn’t have quite the same ring as “Buffalo Billion,” so maybe we should call Gov. Kathy Hochul’s proposal to spend big on the city the “Albany Rescue Plan.” The proposed spending package,

ALBANY, N.Y. (TNND) — Rep. Ritchie Torres, D-N.Y., on Tuesday made an urgent appeal for New York Gov. Kathy Hochul to reinstate a ban on face masks, pointing to "sympathizers" of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) while doing so.