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New York will evaluate its troubled recreational marijuana licensing program as lawsuits and bureaucratic stumbles have severely hampered the legal market and black-market sellers have flourished.
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The Zoo leadership is looking for $750,000 in yearly payments from local government funding for at least five years, split evenly between the City of Watertown and Jefferson County.
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The Syracuse Common Council has voted to secure pay increases for some city elected officials and is looking to receive federal funding for community development and assistance.
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Oneida County is now split between Congressional districts following approval of a new set of district lines.
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New York State Trooper Robert Stawicki received the Police Officer Medal of Valor for his work on December 15, 2021, when he responded to a structure fire in the Town of Granby in Oswego County.
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With little debate, the lines drawn by Democrats, who lead both the Senate and Assembly, were approved, with a handful of Republican minority party lawmakers also voting yes.
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After a closed-door meeting with his Democratic members on Tuesday, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie said lawmakers will vote as soon as Wednesday on the lines drawn by the Democratic majorities in his house and the state Senate. Democrats on Monday rejected maps approved by the state's bipartisan redistricting commission earlier in the month.
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Both the rejected Independent Redistricting Commission map and the proposed boundaries by the state legislature split the City of Rome and the City of Utica into separate Congressional Districts.
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The Syracuse Common Council passed a resolution urging the federal government to renew the Affordable Connectivity Program.
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Democrats in the New York State Legislature rejected new congressional district maps drawn by a bipartisan redistricting commission and are opting to draw their own maps instead. Republicans, who are in the minority in the Legislature, condemned the vote — saying it’s all about the Democrats trying to gain political advantage.
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Republicans have a razor-thin majority in the House. Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said what the future of the House looks like could come down to central New York's 22nd Congressional District.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James told ABC News on Tuesday that she will seek to seize some of the former president’s assets if he’s unable to cover the bill from Judge Arthur Engoron’s Feb. 16 ruling in her lawsuit against Trump, his company and top executives.