6+ day, 20+ hour ago   (115+ words) Central New York parents and students said generative artificial intelligence can help with schoolwork but should not replace independent learning or teachers, according to CNY Central. Families interviewed at the New York State Fair cautiously supported using AI for research…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (380+ words) More than 400 New York school districts are expanding free prekindergarten this year as the state works toward universal access for 4-year-olds by fall 2028. The expansion is adding thousands of seats this school year, with tens of thousands more planned over…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (358+ words) New York has completed two Long Island highway-renewal projects totaling $31.5 million, resurfacing nearly 100 lane miles and adding pedestrian, drainage and traffic-signal improvements in Nassau and Suffolk counties. The work covered sections of Route 25, the Sunrise Highway service roads, Hempstead Turnpike…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (372+ words) New York has joined a multistate lawsuit challenging a federal rule that blocks Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program reimbursement for gender-affirming care provided to transgender adolescents. Attorney General Letitia James and the coalition argue that the U.S. Department of Health…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (481+ words) New York officials are calling on the Trump administration to release $87 million in federal homeland-security money they say remains withheld from the state after a court challenge restored part of a larger reduction. Gov. Kathy Hochul and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (483+ words) New Yorkers rank among the nation’s better budgeters, with relatively low debt compared with income and the lowest credit utilization rate in the country helping push the state into the top 10 of a new nationwide analysis. New York ranked ninth…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (215+ words) Gov. Kathy Hochul said three million fewer Canadians visited New York during the past year as federal tariffs and political tensions disrupted tourism and cross-border commerce. In a Friday television interview, Hochul said the decline has affected communities from Buffalo…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (521+ words) New York has expanded financial aid, frozen tuition at SUNY and CUNY and opened free community college to thousands of adult learners as the state marks five years of higher education policy changes under Gov. Kathy Hochul. The state Higher…...