Four moderate House Republicans — from swing districts Democrats are already eyeing for next year’s midterms — have broken ranks with Speaker Mike Johnson, signing on to Democrats’ petition to force a ...

New York is set to become the latest state to legalize medically assisted suicide for the terminally ill under a deal reached ...

President Donald Trump’s administration is talking tough about SNAP, saying the government’s biggest food aid program is riddled with fraud that must be stopped. His appointees are looking at ...

Congresswoman Elise Stefanik wants the Trump administration to look into how the New York state Department of Health has handled Medicaid funding, an apparent result of her efforts to investigate how ...

After a chaotic November, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program is back on track — at least for now. The government shutdown suspended SNAP payments nationwide on Nov. 1. At the same time, New ...

The metamorphosis of Jesus Christ from a humble servant of the abject poor to a symbol that stands for gun rights, prosperity theology, anti-science, limited government that neglects the poor and ...

Four centrist Republicans broke with Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday and signed onto a Democratic-led petition that will force a House vote on extending for three years an enhanced pandemic-era ...

Protect The Adirondacks! released a study on Friday, Dec. 12, claiming that much of the approximately 36,000 acres that make ...

The SUNY system is investing nearly $1 million in nursing programs in areas with a shortage of health care providers, and is giving a handful of North Country colleges some cash to help them connect ...

Chad Nichols will serve three to six years in prison for disposing of Jahfari Joseph’s body in a remote area of Franklin County after he was murdered late last year. As previously reported by the ...

Unexplained, intermittent and brief power outages at the Tupper Lake Emergency Services building have caused headaches for the village police department as the outages wiped out much of what was ...

Cigarette use among adults living with a disability or experiencing mental distress is significantly higher than the average smoking rate for adults. A regional initiative is working to reverse this ...