Officers recorded over 25,000 stops last year, a 50 percent increase over the previous year. Nine in ten people stopped by the NYPD last year were Black or Latino.
New York law mandates gender-affirming care — but some hospitals are backing down anyway.
Environmentalists have long charged that New York is falling short of its climate mandates. Now, they’re taking the state to court.
In rural New York, even some Republicans are frustrated as the administration halts $186 million in conservation payments to farmers.
A 2023 law is transforming the state power authority into one of New York’s biggest renewable developers. Some still want it to go further.
Here’s where the Senate, Assembly, and governor stand on funding New York’s green transition.
They want to beef up the powerful but little-known State Commission of Correction.
Nantwi’s cellmate, the only incarcerated witness in the room as guards allegedly killed the 22-year-old, speaks out for the first time.
The legislature rejected Hochul’s central public safety policy priorities while embracing proposals to increase prison oversight.
Governor Hochul’s budget allocates only a fraction of what the state Board of Regents suggested for three state-owned Indigenous schools.
The campaign has created 64 public fundraising web pages for people to raise money on its behalf. But it didn’t disclose any intermediaries.
Governor Kathy Hochul’s proposal to make canceling subscriptions easier would exempt many major companies. The Senate wants to eliminate that loophole.
We answer your questions on the state’s notoriously opaque budget process.
New York has spent more on child care assistance in recent years, but high child care costs continue to drive families out of the state and into poverty.
In the last three years, New York has become the sports betting capital of the US.