By Cathleen F. Crowley, Albany Times Union, N.Y. Jul. 30--ALBANY -- A proposed law that would let New Yorkers zoom to neighborhood-level data on cancer maps has lost direction. The bill passed both the state Assembly and the Senate, but negotiations over the bill's requirements have broken off.

By Gordon, Jim New York's regional utilities would be allowed once again both to produce and to transmit electricity under a state Assembly bill that seeks not the regulated monopolies of the past but a broader-based energy system using diverse sources.

By Louise Story After reading about how companies like Google, Microsoft and Yahoo collect information about people online and use it for targeted advertising, one New York State legislator said there ought to be a law.

By Tom Precious More that three decades after he began his rise in the Democratic Party, State Comptroller Alan G. Hevesi is scheduled to walk into an Albany County courthouse this morning to plead guilty to a felony crime and offer his resignation from his powerful post.

By Sophia Chang, Newsday, Melville, N.Y. Nov. 18--When it comes to action the Long Island Rail Road should take for passenger safety, fixing the gaps is just "one piece of the puzzle," says New York's senior senator. Sen.