The Democratic governor is putting her muscle behind efforts to ease restrictions in New York’s involuntary commitment law, ...

Governor Hochul also proposes adding a substitute pool to help keep classrooms running. She said she wants to create a ...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is pledging to dramatically expand child tax credits this year as part of a broader effort to make ...

She also proposed creating a pool of child care teachers and substitute teachers through to provide staff to keep child care centers open and to work in new centers that will be built.

Someone must pay the billions needed to protect critical infrastructure, lives and homes from climate change.

Hochul's proposal would use state funds to reduce the child care cost to $15 per week for households making up to $108,000 a year.

Kathy Hochul proposed expanding New York’s tax credit for more than 2.75 million kids. The plan would give 1.6 million Empire ...