Lewis County employees held nine of the North Country’s ten highest-paid local government positions in fiscal year 2025-26, most ...

Mary Nobilski, a Steuben County employee, was the Southern Tier’s highest-paid local government employee in fiscal year 2025-26, at ...

Syracuse police officers held all ten of the highest-paid local government positions in Central New York during fiscal year ...

Payroll records for every Long Island county, city, town, village and special district can be searched at the Empire Center's transparency website, SeeThroughNY.net. The full statewide report, What ...

Local government is a labor-intensive business. The 179,222 employees of the state’s counties, cities, towns, and villages outside New York City were paid a total of $12.0 billion during the fiscal ...

“Replacing natural gas with electricity for home heating could add hundreds or even thousands of dollars to New Yorkers’ ...

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The pace of population change in most New York counties slowed during the 12 months ending July 1, 2023, the third annual period measured by U.S. Census estimates since the disruption of the 2020 ...

In 2030, New York may begin a policy of forcing New York families to use electricity for home heating instead of fuels like heating oil, propane and natural gas. Homeowners whose furnaces fail in ...

The Tier 5 and Tier 6 changes combined are saving New York state and local governments outside New York City more than $1 billion this year. After record-busting investment returns in 2021, most of ...