Gov. Kathy Hochul ducked any mention of a clamored-for ban on wearing masks in public during her State of the State Tuesday — a notable omission that drew condemnation from a potential election ...

Rep. Ritchie Torres, D-N.Y., made an urgent appeal for New York Gov. Kathy Hochul to reinstate a ban on face masks, pointing to “sympathizers” of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) while doing so.

Kathy Hochul appears to have abandoned the effort ... antisemitic thugs were anonymously threatening Jews, any mention of masks was conspicuously absent from Hochul’s state of the state and ...

Hochul has engaged when necessary. She told reporters the spending freeze is harmful and backed Attorney General Letitia ...

The bill would create the crime of “masked harassment” under the state’s existing harassment laws and contains several exemptions for people who wear masks for medical reasons or during cold weather, ...

Over the past week, a series of developments have reaffirmed the imminent danger of an H5N1 “bird flu” pandemic, for which ...

Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, last year floated a potential ... from civil liberties groups and from others who pointed out that masks are common on the subways because of concerns about poor air ...

Two such bans, one Democratic and one Republican, are making their way through the state legislature—something Governor Kathy Hochul neglected to mention ... who obscured their faces behind surgical ...