David Paterson

The budget crisis in Albany has threatened to shutter more than 55 parks and historic sites across New York State. According to reports, officials at the Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation say the agency on Monday will being shutting...

The deadlocked State Senate will meet this afternoon on orders from Gov. David A. Paterson, though whether bills are adopted remains very much in doubt. The coalition of 30 Republicans and one rebel Democrat, who upended the Senate on June 8, is...

Rick Lazio is expected to return to the political spotlight in a run for New York governor. The former Long Island congressman took a nine-year hiatus from politics after losing a high-profile race for the U.S. Senate to Hillary Rodham Clinton in 2000....

The stalemate in the New York State Senate ended on Thursday as Bronx Senator Pedro Espada returned to the Democratic conference. The move by Espada gives Democrats a 32-30 majority for the first time since the June 8 coup where both Espada and Senator...

The state Senate plans to hold its first full session in nearly three weeks after Gov. David Paterson threatened to take lawmakers to court to get them back to work amid the chamber's ongoing power struggle. Late Wednesday night, Paterson issued a...

Gov. David Paterson will run for re-election in 2010, despite pressure from democratic aides to withdraw from the race. Democratic advisers in Washington, who spoke on condition of anonymity to the Associated Press, have become concerned about Paterson's...

As private negotiations resume, New York's senators plan to hold another meaningless session in the power dispute about to mark its third week of gridlock. The Democratic conference was again expected to gavel in and out of an extraordinary session...

A Republican coup in the state Senate, helped along by one Democrat with legal troubles and another who violated election laws, paralyzed the chamber on Tuesday. Democrats vowed to fight back, possibly with a lawsuit, but the new leaders said the...

A federal judge has blocked New York officials from collecting five-cent deposits on bottles of water until next April. U.S. District Judge Thomas Griesa's order prevents state officials from enforcing any amendments to the so-called "Bottle Bill" for...

Democrats claimed control of the split New York Senate on Tuesday, declaring a quorum after a Republican took a short cut through the chamber because an exterior parlor had been blocked by Democrats for a press conference they never held. The Democrats...

Gov. David Paterson has appointed two statesmen to mediate the power-struggle that has lead to the deadlock in the New York State Senate. Paterson announced Saturday, that former Lieutenant Gov. Stan Lundine and former State Sen. John Dunne will act as...

A majority of New Yorkers apparently think the White House has no business meddling in state politics. That's the finding of a new Marist College poll released Thursday that says the White House should not have told Gov. David Paterson to skip running...