New York state budget

The nation’s largest higher education union said this year’s budget is a step in the right direction for public teaching hospitals.

Talks over revising the state's 2019 bail reform laws were one of the reasons that the budget was late, but Gov. Kathy Hochul and lawmakers predict it will now be finished by the end of Friday.

Budget talks continue at the State Capitol on the late state budget, with some agreements near.

As budget talks drag out in Albany, advocates for health care continue pressing lawmakers to make sure there is money for upstate hospitals. But even with a decline in COVID numbers, the staffing problems in hospitals persist.

The state budget, due on March 31, is bogged down over Gov. Hochul's proposed changes to criminal justice laws

The New York state budget is going to be late, now that lawmakers have adjourned until Monday after failing to win an accord.

Gov. Kathy Hochul has until the end of the day Thursday to decide whether to lift a pause on a law that requires nursing homes to greatly increase staffing.

Government watchdog groups are making a push to include ethics reform in the state budget, and while Gov. Kathy Hochul promised to overhaul the state’s troubled ethics oversight commission, the Legislature has not agreed to the proposal so far.

Gov. Kathy Hochul continues to push for changes to the 2019 criminal justice reform laws that some Democrats say go too far — and Republicans say don't do enough.

With less than two weeks until the New York state budget deadline, advocates for public teaching hospitals, including SUNY Upstate Medical University, are rallying for more state funding.