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“I’m not here to make history,” Gov. Kathy Hochul said Tuesday during her victory speech. “I’m here to make a difference.”

Kathy Hochul, who became New York’s governor when her predecessor Andrew Cuomo resigned amid scandal, made history Tuesday by becoming the first woman to win election to the job.

From the first out lesbian governor to the first female governor of Arkansas, women claimed historic firsts in elections across the country. But they weren’t the only ones.

New York has some of the toughest state gun laws in the country, but even that wasn’t enough to stop a gunman from killing 10 shoppers at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, this month. In the wake of another mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, NBCLX storyteller Ngozi Ekeledo took a look at New York’s...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul addresses the shooting in a Brooklyn subway car and the increase in violence across New York City.

New York Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin has resigned after he surrendered to authorities to face campaign finance fraud-related charges in connection with a past campaign, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced. “I have accepted Brian Benjamin’s resignation effective immediately. While the legal process plays out, it is clear to both of us that he cannot continue to serve as Lieutenant Governor....

Andrew Cuomo is speaking with allies about possibly running against New York Gov. Kathy Hochul. Democratic Party officials scoff at the idea.

“There will come a time when we can say it’s all over,” Hochul said of Covid “We’re not there yet, but boy, it’s on the horizon.”

The state recorded 21,027 positive Covid tests on Thursday, about 8% of total reported test results.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul issues a statewide mask mandate for all indoor public places unless businesses or venues have implemented a vaccine requirement. 

“I have come to the conclusion that I must continue my work as attorney general,” James said in a statement.

New York officials say they will not overreact to Thursday’s development, but “we should assume there is community spread of the variant in our city.”

At least 9 cases were confirmed on Thursday in Minnesota, Colorado, New York, Hawaii and California.

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has denied a request from New York City teachers hoping to get a last minute injunction to stop the city’s vaccine mandate for educators and school staff. New York City’s roughly 148,000 school employees had until 5 p.m. to get at least their first COVID-19 vaccine shot, or face suspension without pay when schools...

New York Attorney General Letitia James, whose sexual harassment report sunk Andrew Cuomo, is not ruling out a run for governor next year.

The new law could be a shot in the arm for automakers selling or planning electric vehicles

Hochul’s administration acknowledged more Covid deaths in New York as part of a promise to offer more transparency after Cuomo left office.

Gov. Kathy Hochul is expected to tap state senator Brian A. Benjamin as her lieutenant governor, three sources familiar with the matter tell News 4. Benjamin, a Democrat who also ran for state comptroller in this year’s elections, has served as the New York State Senator for District 30, which is made up of Harlem, East Harlem (El Barrio), the…

Kathy Hochul, the first female governor of New York, delivered her first major address a day after Andrew Cuomo resigned over a sexual harassment scandal.

At midnight Tuesday, Kathy Hochul became the ninth woman currently serving as a governor in the U.S., tying a record that was set in 2004 and matched in 2007 and 2019 — but it’s still well shy of gender proportionality.