The proposal would cover more than 2.75 million children, including an estimated 215,000 households on Long Island.

The governor announced a host of other measures aimed at bolstering oversight and accountability for correction officers.

Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) has spent around $415,000 on private jet flights since 2021. The money was doled out by her campaign committee, with the most spent in 2022 during her reelection campaign ...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, is looking to expand the state’s involuntary commitment laws to allow hospitals to force more people with mental health problems into treatment.

ALBANY — Gov. Kathy Hochul on Monday replaced a prison superintendent as a result of the death of an inmate, whose beating by guards was caught on a video recording in a upstate prison on Dec. 9.

ALBANY – On Jan. 1, Gov. Kathy Hochul boasted about the state’s first-in-the-nation prenatal paid leave for mothers, an increase in the state’s minimum wage and plans to send millions of ...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) said she would include legislation regarding the state’s involuntary commitment standards in her new executive budget following a series of violent subway attacks ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul pledged Friday to stop the runaway train of subway violence by making it easier to involuntarily commit and treat dangerous mentally ill New Yorkers — but critics quickly ...