Gov. Kathy Hochul and state lawmakers are just hours away from missing their midnight deadline for the state budget.

“We may or may not make April 1,” the governor said on March 28 on Fox 5.

The 22-day unsanctioned correction officers strike at New York prisons is costing New Yorkers more than $100 million a month due to the New York Army National Guard response, state Budget Director Blake Washington told reporters Monday in the state Capitol.

The total cost of the wildcat strike that formally ended March 10 with the firing of more than 2,000 prison guards is going to cost "many hundreds of millions of dollars," Washington said.

The MTA met its deadline Monday to submit information on subway crime - and the steps that it's taking to combat it - to the U.S. Department of Transportation.

The submission came in response to a March 18 letter Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy sent the agency requesting that information and suggesting that noncompliance could result in "redirecting or withholding funding."

A Jefferson County community is reeling after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers removed eight people, including a mother and her three children, from a farm last week in Sackets Harbor, according to the New York Immigration Coalition advocacy group and others.

It happened in the hometown of President Trump’s Border Czar Tom Homan, leaving area residents with many questions.

Right out of the gate in January, Gov. Kathy Hochul presented several proposals to address child poverty in the state. The most significant idea was an expansion of the Empire State Child Credit.

In this proposal, the governor eliminates the minimum income requirement for the credit. She also increases the tax credit from $330 to $1,000 per child for children ages 0 to 3, and increases the credit from $330 to $500 for children ages 4 to 16.

All 10 prison guards charged in connection with the death of Robert Brooks at Marcy Correctional Facility have been offered a plea deal.

Each defendant and their attorneys were at a pretrial conference in Oneida County on Monday.

Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo secured the endorsement of the Queens Democratic Party on Sunday, strengthening his frontrunner status in the race for mayor.

“The next mayor of the city of New York, Andrew Cuomo!” Rep. Gregory Meeks declared at the event.

Rochester City Councilmember Stanley Martin is calling on Mayor Malik Evans and RPD Chief David Smith to fire the officers that assisted border patrol agents in a recent incident involving immigrants, in what city leaders said was a violation of department policy.

The incident in question took place Monday evening and involved Border Patrol requesting an emergency response to a traffic stop of a van. Rochester Police Chief David Smith said body-worn camera shows the RPD supervisor on the scene giving specific directions to RPD officers and making sure the Border Patrol agents were the ones to engage with people in the van. However, Smith said the supervisor became distracted and, when out of view of the supervisor, RPD officers removed and handcuffed some of the people in the van.

U.S. border czar Thomas Homan said that the White House is backing Rochester police officers after they assisted border patrol agents in a recent incident involving immigrants, in what city leaders said was a violation of department policy.

Border Czar stands up for @RochesterNYPD officers involved in ICE call for back up incident. @SPECNews1ROC https://t.co/vZVmVOaWlZ

A little over 72 hours away from the state budget deadline, lawmakers made it clear that New York state’s spending plan will not get done on time, and negotiations continue at a trickle.

“Nothing’s moving at this point,” Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie told reporters Thursday as lawmakers headed for the exits for a long weekend.

Local officials across New York state want legislative leaders to have a change of heart as the Senate and Assembly hold the line against Gov. Kathy Hochul’s budget priority to expand forced treatment for people suffering from mental health issues who pose a danger to themselves or others.

Several Democratic lawmakers are against the proposal, which they argue would criminalize homelessness or be difficult to implement. But mayors and county executives say state lawmakers fighting Hochul's plan don’t know what local governments have been dealing with.

Columbia University’s interim president Katrina Armstrong has resigned, returning to her post running the New York school’s medical center.

Armstrong’s return to her former job leading the university’s affiliated hospital comes days after Columbia agreed to a host of policy changes demanded by the Trump administration as a condition of restoring $400 million in government funding.

Gov. Kathy Hochul’s attempt to amend the Democratic-led state Legislature’s recent changes to the criminal justice system are yet again at the forefront of state budget negotiations.

This time, Hochul wants to change the way prosecutors hand over evidence to the defense, what’s known as discovery laws.

In the last 10 years, more than 30 New York state nursing homes have closed, resulting in the loss of more than 3,500 beds. Most of the homes were not-for-profit.

Without a significant increase in the Medicaid reimbursement rate, more nursing homes will be forced to reduce admissions, turn away applicants or close their doors.

On Thursday, President Donald Trump announced that he was withdrawing the nomination of North Country U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik to be America’s ambassador to the United Nations, citing the Republican’s' narrow majority in the House of Representatives.

The withdrawn nomination puts an end to speculation on when a special election might be called in a race where Democrats had already picked their candidate, St. Lawrence County farmer Blake Gendebien.

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The Erie County Democratic Committee's endorsed candidate for mayor, state Sen. Sean Ryan, stood in front of City Hall to call attention to what he says are serious ethics violations committed by primary opponent and acting Mayor Chris Scanlon.

"We need to bring change to the city of Buffalo," Ryan said.

There's been a lot of movement this week in the effort to raise awareness and move the ball forward in the fight against human trafficking across upstate New York.

“I'm glad this is on the forefront of conversations because it's one of our hidden secrets in our communities,” Monroe County Sheriff Todd Baxter said, weighing in on the severity of the problem of human trafficking and recent developments to attack the problem.

Lawyers for Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University graduate student facing deportation for his role in pro-Palestinian campus protests, urged a federal judge on Friday to free their client from an immigration detention center in Louisiana, describing his imprisonment there as a “Kafkaesque” ploy to chill free speech.

“The longer we wait, the more chill there is,” defense attorney Baher Azmy said. “Everyone knows about this case and is wondering if they’re going to get picked off the street for opposing U.S. foreign policy.”

“A new Republican Star is born. Great going @EliseStefanik!”

That’s what President Donald Trump tweeted on Nov. 17, 2019, about the northern New York congresswoman. Facing his first impeachment at the time, Rep. Elise Stefanik quickly became one of the president’s most vocal and effective defenders during those hearings. At 35 at the time, she quickly earned praise and respect from elders of the GOP in a very public way.

A new poll this week shows that former Gov. Andrew Cuomo continues to be the frontrunner in this year’s crowded Democratic mayoral primary. Since announcing his candidacy, Cuomo has remained at the top of the pack while continuing to deploy a rose garden strategy. Incumbent Mayor Eric Adams has finally begun to confront this tough political reality by taking on the former governor in his most pointed language yet. NY1 investigative reporter Courtney Gross, and political reporters Bobby Cuza and Kelly Mena break down all the latest news in the race for mayor.

After that, Columbia University has agreed to sweeping policy changes on campus in an attempt to appease the Trump administration. The changes include hiring more public safety officers, cracking down on discipline and reviewing its Middle Eastern Studies Department. This comes as another New York institution, the law firm Paul Weiss, has capitulated to the Trump administration after the president had signed an executive order attempting to limit the firm’s ability to litigate. The “Off Topic” team looks at these dramatic examples of Trump’s influence on our city.

State Sen. Liz Krueger along is calling on Gov. Kathy Hochul to immediately sign the New York Health Information Privacy Act.

Krueger told Spectrum News 1 that the need for Hochul’s rubber stamp on the bill she carried with Assemblymember Linda Rosenthal is even more urgent in light of concerns raised by the bankruptcy of DNA testing company 23andMe and the potential sale of customer data.

Fired correction officers returned to the state Capitol Thursday, nearly one month after they rallied on the building’s east front during the heat of the strike, but this time with no chanting and no signs reading “repeal HALT.”

Instead, while officers slammed the state for what they described as a lack of due process and the revocation of their health insurance, they also demonstrated a significant shift in tone when it comes to conversations around solitary confinement.

State Education Department officials told Gov. Kathy Hochul and legislative leaders Thursday not to play politics with rules that give greater oversight to the curriculum in religious and nonpublic schools as lawmakers attempt to erode the standards in a backroom budget deal.

Some lawmakers want to sneak language in the budget to give private schools more flexibility to comply with stricter SED guidelines adopted by the Board of Regents in 2022 that provide greater oversight of what instructors teach at religious and nonpublic schools.

With Republicans having a razor-thin majority in the U.S. House of Representatives, President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he is withdrawing the nomination of North Country Republican U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik to be the country’s ambassador to the United Nations.

In his post on Truth Social, the president praised Stefanik and said he “looks forward to the day when Elise is able to join my administration.”

The MTA sucks a lot of the oxygen out of the room in Albany during state budget season, but upstate transit needs significant investments as well.

It’s a fight that state Sen. Jeremy Cooney is ready to engage in as state Senate Transportation Committee chairman.

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Blockchain is essentially an advanced digital database that allows for the sharing of information and peer-to-peer transactions.

It's most commonly associated with cryptocurrency.

Attorneys for the gunman in the 2022 racist mass shooting in Buffalo are asking a judge to delay his federal trial by a year.

Payton Gendron killed 10 Black people and injured three others at a Tops supermarket on Jefferson Avenue in May 2022.

The number of private sector jobs in New York increased by 3,700 or 0.1%, in February, according to preliminary seasonally adjusted figures released Thursday by the state Department of Labor.

These put the total number of private sector jobs in the state to 8,463,100 in February. The number of private sector jobs in the U.S. also increased by 0.1% in the same period, the department said.

WASHINGTON — As the Trump administration makes sweeping changes to the federal government, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., said Thursday that the Democrats are winning in their fight against President Donald Trump’s policies.

Citing Republican initiatives to cut Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare and public education, Jeffries said the Democratic Party is “all hands on deck, and it will continue to be all hands on deck” to protect the programs that make life better for all Americans.

New York state Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie told reporters Thursday afternoon that state budget negotiations are “kind of at a standstill” and reiterated his frustration with the amount of policy that gets included in the state’s spending plan every year.

“Things are kind of, kind of at a standstill. We’re going to pass this debt service bill and the members will go home, do work in their districts and we’ll pick it back up next week,” Heastie said.

President Donald Trump is pulling Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik’s nomination as ambassador to the United Nations, he announced on Truth Social on Thursday.

Stefanik, who represents New York's 21st Congressional District, was one of the first cabinet-level nominees put forward by Trump just days after his election in November. Her confirmation hearings were held the day after Trump’s inauguration in January but two months later was yet to be confirmed.

New York has received more than 1,300 applications for Gov. Kathy Hochul’s recruitment campaign for federal workers interested in state service who have been terminated from federal jobs as a result of the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE.

Known as the “You’re Hired” initiative, it aims to fill more than 7,000 positions in state government listed in the StateJobsNY portal that were vacant as of the end of February.

The acting Ulster County clerk says he's rejecting a filing of judgment from Texas against a New Paltz physician.

In a statement, Taylor Bruck said he informed Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton that the judgment against Dr. Maggie Carpenter, charged with providing mifepristone — which can be used to end pregnancies as part of a two-drug regimen with misoprostol — to a Texas resident via telehealth, will not be filed. Bruck cited New York's Shield Law, which is in place to protect New York-based health care providers and patients from both criminal and civil liability in other states in connection with abortion and gender-affirming resources.

When President Donald Trump canceled $400 million in funding to Columbia University over its handling of student protests against Israel's war in Gaza, much of the financial pain fell on researchers a train ride away from the school's campus, working on things like curing cancer and studying COVID-19's impact on children.

The urgency of salvaging ongoing research projects at the university's labs and world-renowned medical center was one factor in Columbia's decision last week to bow to the Republican administration’s unprecedented demands for changes in university policy as a condition of getting funding restored.

Gov. Kathy Hochul says she will fight the federal government tooth and nail to protect the health and well-being of New Yorkers from sweeping federal cuts that will take a $300 million toll on New York state.

Hochul says the cuts to New York public health, mental health and addiction services will be devastating across the state.

Since the start of the Israel-Hamas war in October 2023, Columbia University has found itself at the center of pro-Palestinian demonstrations. Columbia is no stranger to anti-war protests. In the spring of 1968, a student uprising against the Vietnam War saw students occupy five buildings on campus and hold the acting dean of Columbia College hostage. Most recently, the arrest of Columbia protest leader Mahmoud Khalil and the university’s response to policy demands from the Trump administration have found the college making national headlines again.

Shea Vance is the editor-in-chief of the university’s student newspaper, the “Columbia Spectator.” Vance joined NY1’s Errol Louis to discuss the most recent events on campus. The conversation covered the disciplinary actions against students protesting the Israel-Hamas war, as well as the ongoing atmosphere of fear among some Jewish students due to antisemitic incidents, and the impact of federal threats on withholding university funding. The discussion also included reflections on the past and future of Columbia’s student activism and Vance’s personal aspirations.

The state Health Department has sent several emails since late last week asking state employees to volunteer to help with the ongoing transition of the Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program.

The $9 billion Medicaid home care program switches from more than 600 companies to one April 1, but tens of thousands of program users and their personal assistants have until April 30 to complete registration with new management company Public Partnerships LLC.

Although it’s looking like Gov. Kathy Hochul and legislative leaders won’t make their April 1 budget deadline, they appear to be in agreement on a big-ticket item for the governor: an all-day ban on cellphones in schools, known as “bell-to-bell.”

“The majority of the members are more comfortable with a bell-to-bell approach, they really are,” state Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, a Westchester Democrat, said.

Less than a week out from the April 1 state budget deadline, there appears to be significant movement on at least one of Gov. Kathy Hochul’s top demands: a bell-to-bell cell phone ban in schools.

State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins updated reporters on the progress of negotiations Wednesday, a process she described as “at the end of the middle” but “tedious” as a result of uncertainty over federal funding. Stewart-Cousins indicated that making the April 1 deadline appears unlikely, but those close to the process have suggested it does not appear the delay will push past mid April.

The New York State Museum isn’t known for its boundary-pushing artistic expression, but the institution’s exhibits — from Native American tableaux to slavery — embrace intersectionality and generally depict the interconnectedness of social struggles — the very kind of “woke” imagery the Trump administration has railed against.

The question is, will a needed infusion of $150 million by Gov. Kathy Hochul, which could remove the museum from the independence of the state Education Department and place it under the executive branch, put the museum in the crosshairs of politics? Or is it more important to ensure the museum isn't ignored?

Last year was a good year for New York's financial industry as Wall Street bonuses reached a record $47.5 billion in 2024, its first major increase since the COVID-19 pandemic highs, according to a report released Wednesday by state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli.

The comptroller said the average bonus of nearly $245,000 represents a more than 30% increase from the previous year and the state is getting about $600 million more in tax revenue as a result. He said robust economic growth led to increased trading, account supervision, underwriting and selling revenues, driving strong profits and helping generate the first significant bump in the average bonus estimate since 2021.

On Tuesday, some of the highest-ranking Massachusetts elected officials including Gov. Maura Healey and state Attorney General Andrea Campbell decried a delay in federal funding for lead pipe abatement, calling it “dangerous.”

As of Wednesday evening, the New York state Department of Health says it is unaware of any changes to funding but stated the department is “committed to ensuring that all New Yorkers have clean and safe drinking water.”

Fast-moving changes to Social Security are ringing some alarm bells.

Staff cuts, office closures and changes to verification systems were all announced earlier this month.

The New York state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) identified 15 people of interest who they said are involved in the investigation into the death of an inmate at Mid-State Correctional Facility in Oneida County earlier this month, the department announced Wednesday.

There still has been no determination concerning anyone's involvement, DOCCS said, but all of those named as part of the probe are on administrative leave, pending the results of an ongoing internal disciplinary review.

New York state is requesting a disaster declaration for farms from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for several counties that were impacted by heavy snow this winter that resulted in structural damage and loss of livestock, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Wednesday.

The request is for Oneida, Lewis, Herkimer, Oswego and Madison counties. A disaster designation would allow for affected farms to apply for USDA low-interest emergency loans.

New York state Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, using her Albany lingo, told reporters Wednesday afternoon that state budget negotiations have reached “the end of the middle” but that talks remains impacted by President Donald Trump’s agenda in Washington that could bring various government cuts.

“The process is tedious because what we see on the horizon coming from our Republican colleagues in Washington,” Stewart-Cousins said.

U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer joined House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries in calling for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to be fired following the texting of sensitive plans for a military strike against Yemen's Houthis earlier this month to a group chat that included The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg.

“He should be fired. I agree, he should be fired,” the Democratic New York senator told reporters Wednesday afternoon while leaving a press conference event on Social Security.

It has been arguably the biggest crisis of Sen. Chuck Schumer’s long political career.

Fellow Democrats from all corners of the party have sharply criticized his decision to advance a Republican spending bill to avoid a government shutdown.

More protests are planned at Tesla auto dealerships in the coming days in upstate New York. It’s all part of the effort to rally against Tesla’s owner, Elon Musk, and his work in the Trump administration.

The anti-Elon Musk and anti-government movement is called Tesla Takedown.

It looks like Gov. Kathy Hochul’s proposed bell-to-bell cellphone ban has some critics among lawmakers and school administrators.

Last week, Capital Tonight spoke with New York’s Superintendents’ Association and School Boards Association about why they are pushing for less stringent rules around cellphones.

Critics of the 2020 discovery laws reform argue that prosecutors no longer have access to law enforcement systems needed to obtain information like police reports. But a bill sponsored by state Sen. Zellnor Myrie and state Assemblyman Micah Lasher addresses that hurdle.

The two Democrats have introduced bills that would give prosecutors access to systems they need to fulfill their discovery requirements. S613-A825 would require police departments to provide district attorneys’ offices access to their electronic records for discovery purposes.

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Historically, elected officials representing the largest municipalities in Southern Ontario and Western New York have come together to resolve mutual issues.

With ongoing tariffs between the U.S. and Canada, Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz reached out to convene a meeting again.

An organization representing many upstate transit groups is urging the Legislature to create a more consistent revenue stream for public transportation outside New York City as top Democrats debate how to fund the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's capital plan in the budget.

The New York Public Transit Association sent a letter to lawmakers and Gov. Kathy Hochul last week asking for dedicated funding for public transit systems upstate as they negotiate funding for the MTA capital plan.

He’s the Cornell graduate student at the center of a First Amendment case. Momodou Taal says his free speech rights were violated by the recent executive orders issued by the White House. A motion hearing was held Tuesday in Syracuse federal court as Taal's lawyers say he is facing deportation.

The case started recently when Taal sued the Trump administration over two executive orders targeting free speech and calling for the deportation of foreign student protestors.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — A report released this week by the New York state Comptroller's Office shows a significant pay discrepancy between men and women in New York.

The report from state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli found that in 2023, women earned 87 cents on the dollar compared to men and that it would take women 53 days to equal that amount.

A top Justice Department official was leaning toward dropping corruption charges against Mayor Eric Adams even before summoning the top Manhattan federal prosecutor at the time to Washington to discuss the case, newly unsealed documents show.

Former interim U.S. Attorney Danielle Sassoon said in a draft memo made public Tuesday that Emil Bove — now the department’s third-in-command — told her of his thinking on Jan. 27, four days before a closed-door meeting at Justice Department headquarters where she and Adams’ lawyers argued for and against keeping the case alive.

The National Transportation Safety Board is hoping to avoid future tragedies by learning more about the bridges Americans cross every day. This comes after six construction workers were killed a year ago on March 26, 2024, when a container ship struck a bridge in Baltimore, Maryland.

Spectrum News 1 dug into a new report drawing attention to infrastructure in New York state.

A Columbia University student who faces potential deportation for her involvement in a pro-Palestinian protest cannot be detained by immigration officials for now as she fights the Trump administration in court, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.

U.S. District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald said in Manhattan court that the government had not laid out enough facts about its claims against Yunseo Chung.

New York Attorney General Letitia James is recommending 23AndMe customers contact the company to delete their data.

This weekend, the San Francisco-based genetic testing company announced that it has declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy and announced plans to sell its assets. Sunday’s filing reported total debts of more than $214.7 million as of the end of last year.

Bronx Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez addressed huge crowds over the weekend, joining Sen. Bernie Sanders in a series of rallies denouncing President Donald Trump and his agenda.

Her campaign-style swing, where the progressive star told rally attendees that Democrats need a party that “fights harder for us,” grabbed the spotlight at a time the party is hungry for a winning message and new leadership.

Gov. Kathy Hochul Monday stepped away from budget negotiations Monday to make a public pitch for her preferred plan for changing New York’s discovery laws.

The governor is trying to weed out issues related to reforms enacted in 2020 that she argues lead to dismissals on technicalities. Her strategy involves tweaking standards for what items must be turned over, timetables for compliance and easing penalties in cases where compliance is less than perfect.

As Spectrum News 1's Kate Lisa reported, the New York state Department of Health on Monday announced a plan for consumers and providers who need more time to transition to Public Partnerships LLC, the single fiscal intermediary under the consumer directed personal assistance program, or CDPAP.

This isn’t an extension, DOH is insisting; it’s a late registration window that is open until April 30.

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- A memo President Donald Trump issued Saturday directed U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to seek sanctions against attorneys and law firms who engage in frivolous lawsuits against the federal government.

Western New York immigration attorney Rosanna Berardi said while fraud can be a concern, particularly in asylum cases, it's disturbing the administration is preemptively threatening action against attorneys.

State leaders Monday blamed disinformation campaigns as the reason the state Health Department will give thousands of New Yorkers who use or work for a $9 billion home care program another month to register with a new management company.

Thousands of people who use or work for the Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program (CDPAP) who have not completed registration with Public Partnership LLC will get a 30-day grace period, health officials said, as many people await answers to their questions about the transition that takes effect April 1.

The New York state Conservative Party will be meeting three candidates this week in the eventual special election to replace Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik in New York's 21st Congressional District, but at this time, still prefers state Sen. Dan Stec, the party told Spectrum News 1 Monday.

Stec, R-Queensbury, represents New York's 45th state Senate District, which is made up of the eastern part of the state’s North Country, including Plattsburgh, Potsdam, Lake Placid and Lake George. He served in the state Assembly prior to being elected to the Senate in 2020.

Mayor Eric Adams delivered his most pointed criticisms yet of ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo amid the mayoral race.

“He incorrectly handled the nursing home issue. I think those family members are right," he said Monday about Cuomo’s handling of the COVID pandemic in the city. “There was [a] racial disparity in how he even dealt with vaccines. Black and brown communities were not being fairly vaccinated. We were not giving out face masks to NYCHA residents. Many of our nurses and hospitals didn’t have PPEs as they were deserved.”

With the annual April 1 state budget deadline looming, Gov. Kathy Hochul says she’s warning New Yorkers about possible federal funding cuts to major services, including Medicaid programs and school lunches.

Meanwhile, a group of Albany Democrats want her to fight back by refusing to send regularly scheduled state tax dollars to the White House.

Three former state correction officers are back on the job — this time on the county level.

In defiance of Gov. Kathy Hochul's executive order barring correction officers who were fired for striking from being hired by local municipalities unless they go through a specific program, Rensselaer County Executive Steve McLaughlin said he would fill correction officer openings with those who had been fired in the wake of the officers' 22-day wildcat strike across New York prisons.

An international student at Cornell University involved in pro-Palestinian protests has been asked to surrender to immigration authorities as he seeks to block deportation actions by the Trump administration.

The government action against Momodou Taal comes as President Donald Trump ratchets up efforts to arrest and deport noncitizens who participate in such protests or who demonstrate against Israel's military actions in Gaza. In one of the most high-profile cases, the Justice Department recently lodged new accusations against a Columbia University graduate student who has been detained and targeted for deportation because of his participation in protests.

Five years ago on Sunday, Daniel Prude was arrested by police in Rochester during a mental health incident.

He lost consciousness during that arrest and later died in the hospital in what was ruled a homicide by a county medical examiner. Police were not charged in his death, but the city did reach a civil rights settlement with Prude's family afterward.

NEW YORK — U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon said Columbia University is “on the right track” toward recovering federal funding after the elite New York City university agreed to implement a host of policy changes demanded by the Trump administration.

Appearing on CNN's “State of the Union” Sunday, McMahon described “great conversations” with Columbia's interim president, Katrina Armstrong.

WASHINGTON — Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer says he won't resign his post, despite pressure from some in his party after he voted to move forward with a Republican spending bill that avoided a government shutdown.

“Look, I’m not stepping down,” Schumer said in an interview with NBC's “Meet the Press” that aired Sunday. The New York senator said he knew voting for the bill backed by Republican President Donald Trump would spark “a lot of controversy."

A new bill signed by Gov. Kathy Hochul seeks to strengthen New York’s shield law that protects abortion providers from out-of-state prosecution.

Legislation S.4587/A.5285 enhances New York’s existing shield law by allowing medical providers to list only the dispensing health care practice’s address on prescription labels instead of their own name.

Gov. Kathy Hochul and state legislative leaders are wrapping up their first week of budget talks. By all accounts, discussions remain at a surface level, and headed in the right direction despite a curveball from the governor: a late push for some sort of restriction on wearing masks in public. A previous law went by the wayside amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Jack O’Donnell, strategist and founder of O’Donnell & Associates, told Spectrum News 1 that even with the push for a mask policy, things still appear to be relatively tame.

Leaders with the New York Conference of Mayors said dozens of municipalities across the state are considering passing stricter local liability laws in wake of a recent ruling by the state's highest court that online applications to report road hazards count as prior written notice of a defect.

NYCOM attorneys are drafting possible legislative remedies for local governments that use apps to report road issues and other problems to make it harder to be held liable for hazards that go unrepaired.

President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education which oversees federal student loans, funding for low-income students and civil rights enforcement.

While only Congress can completely abolish a federal agency, the administration can begin to reduce the agency’s resources.

A coalition of groups that advocate for transparency and open government are urging passage of a handful of bills that would strengthen the state’s Freedom of Information Laws during this year’s celebration of Sunshine Week.

The coalition includes Common Cause/NY, the League of Women Voters of New York State, the New York Coalition for Open Government and the New York Civil Liberties Union, among many others.

NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. -- Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center said it received more than $14 million from Seneca Casino gaming revenue between 2002 and 2023.

President Joe Ruffolo said it helped pay for a number of important facilities and jobs and continued funding would go a long way toward the hospital's $58 million in outstanding capital needs.

Under threat from the Trump administration, Columbia University agreed to implement a suite of policy changes Friday, including overhauling its rules for protests and conducting an immediate review of its Middle Eastern studies department.

The changes, detailed in a letter sent by interim president, Katrina Armstrong, came one week after the Trump administration ordered the Ivy League school to implement those and other changes in order to continue receiving federal funding, an ultimatum widely criticized in academia as an attack on academic freedom.

Members of the American Postal Workers Union across the country are protesting potential changes that could affect how you receive mail.

They say they're sending a strong message to Washington against the privatization of the United States Postal Service. The protest comes after the Trump administration weighs plans to transfer the USPS to the Department of Commerce and take away its independence. President Donald Trump also says he is thinking of privatizing the mailing company.

With fewer than 100 days before voting begins in the New York City primary, NY1 is sitting down with Democratic candidates challenging Mayor Eric Adams.

On Friday, former New York Assemblyman and vice chair of the Democratic National Committee Michael Blake joined “Mornings On 1” to make his case to voters.

As the June primary in the mayor's race gets closer, there was a pivotal campaign finance deadline for the candidates this week. Andrew Cuomo, not surprisingly, pulled in $1.5 million in less than two weeks. But filings showed that Mayor Eric Adams only raisied about $19,000 in the last two months.

Meanwhile, Adams is flirting with the idea of running on an independent line in the general election — perhaps a backup plan if he loses the Democratic primary. NY1 investigative reporter Courtney Gross, and political reporters Bobby Cuza and Kelly Mena break down the latest in the race for mayor.

The specific parameters of the partial ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia brokered and announced by the Trump administration are still being worked out, according to the U.S. State Department spokesperson.

“That’s what the technical meeting is about in Saudi Arabia in the next few days,” Tammy Bruce told Spectrum News Thursday, when asked about the scope of the plan.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — New York state is no longer seeking as severe penalties for correction officers who participated in the unsanctioned prison strike that ran from Feb. 17 to March 10.

Last week, the state said it would not seek incarceration of up to six months for officers and now, attorney Ralph Lorigo said the state indicated it won't go after the officers' money either.

A push to pass the Plastic Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act is once again picking up steam in New York. The "extended producer responsibility" legislation passed through the Environmental Conservation Committee in the state Senate and Assembly, and advocates held a rally at the state Capitol this week to capitalize on the momentum.

The bill would enforce regulations on companies with an income in excess of $1 million that advocates say will reduce plastic packaging by 30% incrementally over 12 years.

State lawmakers said they are not opposed to making future technical changes to the Good Cause Eviction law after tenant and landlord advocacy groups have called for amendments to clarify the policy.

Small property owners and tenant advocates said Thursday they've had discussions with lawmakers about a subsequent bill to clean up parts of the law, which caps rent increases to 10% or the rate of inflation plus 5%.

There was significant outrage among both moderate and left-wing Democrats over U.S. Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer’s decision last week to vote to advance the Republican continuing resolution without asking for anything in return.

At the same time, Gov. Kathy Hochul and legislative leaders are currently negotiating a state budget without explicitly addressing the probability of big federal budget cuts coming down the pike.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — The New York State Comptroller’s Office has its sights set on making changes in the effort to help victims and survivors of human trafficking, calling for improvements in services for that population in a report issued this week.

State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli released an audit essentially saying the New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance (OTDA) needs to do better when it comes to overseeing services for victims and survivors of human trafficking.

Upstate New York is working toward becoming home to a bustling technology hub thanks to the planned Micron semiconductor manufacturing facility coming to Onondaga County. But President Donald Trump’s criticism of the CHIPS and Science Act have left some questioning if the projects will come to fruition.

Members of New York’s congressional delegation reassured stakeholders the future of tech in the state is bright.

The Trump administration on Thursday extended the deadline it set for New York to end congestion pricing, while simultaneously chastising Gov. Kathy Hochul for refusing to halt the tolling program.

In a social media post, U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said the agency would “provide New York with a 30-day extension as discussions continue.”

Retaliatory energy tariffs imposed by Canada on the U.S. will, over time, raise costs for households and businesses across the state, and when combined with other tariffs, potentially lead to growing impacts, state agencies say in a report made for state leaders.

The state Department of Public Service (DPS), state Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) and the New York State Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services (DHSES) released the report Thursday in response to requests from Gov. Kathy Hochul and Sen. Chuck Schumer, who asked for a review of President Donald Trump’s tariffs and return measures threatened by Ontario Premier Doug Ford on electricity, heating and energy reliability.

The New York state Office of Employee Relations released a memo Thursday instructing how state agencies determine eligible applicants for jobs to comply with Gov. Kathy Hochul’s March 10 executive order barring anyone who was terminated as a result of the recent correction officer strike from being hired at any state service job.

According to the memo, state agencies must confirm if an applicant was a correciton officer employed by the state at any point between Feb. 17 and March 10, and if so, contact the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision to see if the applicant was fired for their participation in the strike.

New York state's top court put an end Thursday to New York City's effort to empower noncitizens to vote in municipal elections.

In a 6-1 ruling, the high court said “the New York constitution as it stands today draws a firm line restricting voting to citizens.”

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said Thursday she is worried about the impact of President Donald Trump’s executive order calling for the shutdown of the U.S. Department of Education.

The governor was at Eagle Point Elementary School in Albany, a place she said relies heavily on the federal government for subsidizing school lunches. According to Hochul, Albany County gets $6 million from the federal government for student school breakfasts and lunches and elimination of the Education Department could jeopardize that.

Building on the success of NY1’s documentary about the tumultuous two-term mayoralty of John V. Lindsay, NY1 and Hunter College’s Roosevelt House held an in-depth discussion about the former mayor that was moderated by NY1’s Errol Louis. Panelists included former Lindsay aides, Sid Davidoff, Ronnie Eldridge and Robert Laird, and Lindsay historian Joseph Viteritti.

The special live taping of the panel on May 14 was held at Roosevelt House — Hunter College’s Public Policy Institute and the former Manhattan home of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt.