The utility giant is asking the state’s utilities regulator to jack up average electric bills by 11.4% and send gas bills soaring 13.3%.

“Governor Kathy Hochul’s Public Service Commission must reject any proposed rate hike that far exceeds the rate of inflation,” Bronx Rep. Ritchie Torres said in a letter to the commission.

Kathy Hochul ducked any mention of a clamored-for ... drew condemnation from a potential election rival. Bronx Rep. Ritchie Torres, who’s eyeing a Democratic primary run against Hochul next ...

BLOCKING OUT THE HATERS: Democratic Rep. Ritchie Torres is blocking Gov. Kathy Hochul’s staffers on X as he mounts a likely bid to run against her next year. He’s also spent the last few ...

US Congressman Ritchie Torres (D-NY) criticized New York Governor Kathy Hochul for failing to mention the wave of antisemitic incidents in New York State following the October 7 massacre in her ...

Proposed Office of Innovation and Efficiency billed as way to untangle the large, complicated bureaucracy that is New York ...

TORRES’ IMMIGRATION SHIFT ... His ramping up of rhetoric on immigration comes as Gov. Kathy Hochul — whom he’d be trying to unseat if he enters the race — has also embraced calls to ...

New York voters support Gov. Kathy Hochul's budget proposals like universal school meals but would prefer someone else as ...

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.