Union’s finance director has dropped a $105,000 request for a Bobcat ToolCat utility machine from the proposed 2025-26 budget, but some city officials are making another push for the purchase.

Hochul and lawmakers will now negotiate a final agreement as part of the state budget, which is expected to pass sometime in April. ALBANY — One word has divided Gov. Kathy Hochul and Democrats ...

The proposed budget is a nearly 5.4% increase from this year’s and includes $99 million for school funding, a 3.5% general wage increase and a 1-cent real estate tax reduction to $1.14 per $100 ...

The Thursday morning vote on the Senate’s budget blueprint – a key initial step in the long budget process – will eventually allow Republicans to muscle the president’s first big ...

The hardliners were incensed that the budget resolution directed Senate committees to find far fewer spending cuts than House panels — at least $1.5 trillion compared to at least $4 billion ...

with Democrats peppering Republicans running the bill and education budget with questions about how to track the money. Republican Sen. Danny Burgess explained that the money is difficult to track ...

Last week Mike Yestramski, president of the union, called Ferguson a “ratfink” for reneging on his promise and instead proposing a “cuts first” budget. He vowed to make the state’s new ...

About 200 residents rallied outside the State House for a “better budget” as House Democrats urged colleagues to turn down the House’s $15.4 billion state budget plan that contains ...