Some counties pay social services workers so little, the people who administer benefits end up applying themselves.

The governor’s team coordinated meetings between her failed chief judge nominee and Senate Republicans in the days before a key committee vote, emails show.

Formerly incarcerated “peers” offer drug counseling to people in county jails — when they can get in.

A new bill would subject the state prison system to independent oversight for sexual assault complaints. The Senate has two weeks to bring it to a floor vote.

Biofuels, hydrogen, carbon capture, and nuclear: These are some of the technologies that will be on the table as New York weighs how to clean up its grid over the next 17 years.

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While the governor awaits guidance from the federal government, thousands of undocumented New Yorkers can’t afford to go to the doctor.

Annucci has been characterized as an institutionalist loyal to the prison system above all else — even, at times, the law.

National Fuel customers paid for a website directing New Yorkers to oppose electrification mandates, documents show.

Climate and Environment
New York law requires utilities to build out gas infrastructure at customers’ expense. The Senate wants to close the spigot.
Private attorney Caitlin Halligan helped let Chevron off the hook for billions of dollars it owed Ecuadorians over the company’s pollution of the Amazon.
Colin Kinniburgh
Comptroller Brad Lander is scrutinizing the climate impacts of private equity investments — an area his counterpart in Albany has yet to address.
Lilah Burke
Criminal Justice
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz speaks at a holiday celebration in Queens on December 19, 2021.

Police will receive photos of defendants with curfews and report alleged violations to District Attorney Melinda Katz.

The confirmations of Rowan Wilson and Caitlin Halligan may reverse the Court of Appeals’ rightward trend.

Sam Mellins
The confluence of rising commissary prices, stagnant wages, and a package ban are making basic items inaccessible.
Freddy Medina
New York State

Kathy Hochul and the legislators are closing in on a final state budget. As they settle their differences, we’ll keep you up to date on the latest.

“It’s done. It’s not happening,” an Assembly source told New York Focus. Lawmakers are poised to reject measures to boost housing supply and protect renters.

Sam Mellins

Democratic Assembly leaders refused to entertain the governor’s primary tactic to achieve housing growth and affordability.

Sam Mellins