A heated contest was underway in New York's 21st Congressional District earlier this year when the White House withdrew ...

As political tensions simmer across the US, whispers of a second Civil War grow louder. Could California's bold moves ignite ...

New York Democratic state Sen. Liz Krueger suggested to Politico that if Trump follows through with a reported threat to slash federal funding from "sanctuary" jurisdictions, Albany could return ...

And it's not only an upstate-downstate issue. Secession of New York City was Norman Mailer 's idea when he ran for mayor of the Big Apple in 1969.

ALBANY – Nearly 250 years ago, a movement to secede from the State of New York was successful. During the midst of the Revolutionary War, when 13 colonies were fighting for independence from ...

Thomas Kika is a Newsweek weekend reporter based in upstate New York. His focus is reporting on crime and national politics. In the past, he has also focused on things like business, technology ...

Upstate-downstate tension has grown so severe, some prominent Republicans have raised the idea of a kind of divorce dividing New York into two states. That's not likely to happen.