Meet the Fall 2025 Legislative Gazette staff writers, comprised of SUNY New Paltz students: The Legislative Gazette is a student-run newspaper dedicated to covering the politics, policy, and people of ...

Meet the Spring 2025 Legislative Gazette staff, comprised of SUNY New Paltz students: Mya Noe Aung Mya Noe Aung is a staff member at the Legislative Gazette and a senior at SUNY New Paltz, majoring in ...

On March 11, Gov. Hochul announced her proposal for a bell-to-bell cell phone ban policy for public, charter schools and BOCES in New York state with minimal pushback. According to multiple reports, ...

Legislative Gazette file photo. Albany City Hall. Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a new law that mandates public bodies to post meeting minutes online within 14 days of a meeting. This legislation ...

A 2013 rally outside the state Capitol in Albany, protesting passage of the New York Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement Act, otherwise known as the SAFE Act. The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral ...

New York voters overwhelmingly approved $4.2 billion in new borrowing to fund the Clean Water, Clean Air and Green Jobs Environmental Bond Act by a margin of 59 percent to 29 percent, with 12 percent ...

For the sixth time since its inception in 1982, the Siena College Research Institute’s Survey of U.S. Presidents finds that experts rank Franklin D. Roosevelt, Teddy Roosevelt, Abe Lincoln, Thomas ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul signs legislation redefining rape to better protect sexual assault survivors. The bill expands upon what is legally considered rape to include forms of nonconsensual sexual contact ...

Amid statewide protests and walkouts by corrections officers, the Assembly Republican Conference held a press conference in the state Capitol on Monday, calling on Gov. Kathy Hochul to take immediate ...

The state Department of Environmental Conservation has issued guidance to help New Yorkers avoid conflict with coyotes and protect their pets. “This is the time of year when New York’s resident ...

Since August 2022, DEA and other law enforcement agencies nationwide have seized brightly-colored fentanyl and fentanyl pills in 26 states. Dubbed “rainbow fentanyl,” this trend appears to be a new ...