Before Kathy Hochul paused it, the tolling program lost the little labor support it had when the Transport Workers Union withdrew its backing this spring.
Great Meadow and Sullivan prisons are slated to shut down in November. The state could close up to three more over the next year.
More counties are turning to private corporations to run medical care in jails. The companies have deadly track records.
Rebecca Lamorte was let go by her employer in June, prompting the Assembly Speaker to place an upset call to her boss.
For tenants in the first upstate city to adopt rent stabilization, benefiting from the law’s basic protections is an uphill battle.
As the state has backpedaled on congestion pricing, it has made no progress on nearly half of its other transit-related climate goals.
Medicare Advantage plans are spreading across upstate New York, despite a reputation for denying care. In Cortland County, retirees kept it at bay.
Some of the state’s top Democrats slammed the governor, while others supported the pause or stayed mum. Republicans want congestion pricing killed altogether.
After the governor declined to answer questions, a New York Focus reporter was ejected from her event.
We asked 26 lawmakers who support the congestion pricing pause how they propose to fund transit upgrades. Most shrugged.
The state is blowing past key milestones on the way to its big emissions targets.
Joseph Moran has long faced accusations of dishonesty — even from fellow officers — records show.
He hopes the settlement will lead to reforms in New York prisons, where three-quarters of trans people say corrections officers have inappropriately touched or sexually assaulted them.
The constant gridlock is a major drag on Manhattan’s businesses, and source of frustration for commuters. And it’s never been so bad.
As climate disasters threaten a home insurance crisis, a new state bill aims at the problem’s root.
Since announcing her plan to put the program on ice, the governor has not appeared in public.
The recently formed Solidarity PAC has mobilized big finance and real estate to target socialists and the Working Families Party.
No state pursues workers for overpaid unemployment benefits as aggressively as New York. A proposed reform is colliding with New York’s own repayment problem.
A secret group of Senate Democrats helped decide the fate of nearly 650 bills over the last month. Just don’t ask any questions.
Lawsuits had threatened to kill congestion pricing. Now, it might take a lawsuit to save it.
Legislation to accelerate New York’s casino process copies a lobbying firm’s draft version nearly word for word.
In rural school districts where doctors are hard to find, in-school telehealth services seemed like a good solution. Then New York state stopped funding them.
Asked for records related to top politicians’ use of a Buffalo Bills suite, Empire State Development cited potential interference with a law enforcement investigation.
You haven’t heard of it, and your state senator might not have either. The Working Rules group helps determine the fate of hundreds of bills at the end of each legislative session.
Advocates charge that New York’s restrictions for sex offense registrants are “vague, expansive, and unnecessary.” On Tuesday, they filed a federal lawsuit to strike them down.
The Senate will consider Daniel Martuscello III’s bid to run New York’s prison and parole agency. His supporters point to his decades of experience. His opponents say that’s the problem.
New York prisons have banned articles from The New York Times, New York magazine, and local newspapers, often citing their potential to incite disobedience.
After New York’s top court overturned Harvey Weinstein’s conviction, state lawmakers want to let prosecutors bring evidence from past uncharged sexual assaults.
State lawmakers are set to introduce a sweeping proposal for a public takeover of Central Hudson, the region’s scandal-plagued gas and electric utility.
The police department’s PR team has more than doubled in size in the past two years. Some of its recent hires have histories of dishonesty and misconduct.
A quarter of lawmakers in Albany are landlords. Almost none of them are covered by the most significant tenant protection law in years.
The small Catholic university banned Students for Justice in Palestine in 2016. Amid protests and crackdowns, the move has become increasingly popular.
New Yorkers for Local Businesses has spent half a million dollars trying to kill a bill to help workers recover stolen wages. Almost all its backers appear to own McDonald’s franchises.
In New York, unemployment recipients can be found guilty of fraud even if they thought their information was true. The state demands repayment at the highest rate in the country.
The journalists said the arrests interfered with their ability to document the police raid at the Fashion Institute of Technology.
New York’s Equal Rights Amendment would enshrine the right to abortion in the state. A judge threw it off the ballot for the fall, but an appeal is expected.
New York Focus was on the scene as cops shoved, kettled, and chased students at City College, the second campus where the NYPD razed a Gaza solidarity encampment Tuesday.
The mayor and the police blamed “outside agitators” for campus protests. Student journalists reported what they saw.
While New York City’s public campaign finance system endures scandals, the state won’t audit the majority of campaigns.
After DA Sandra Doorley berated a police officer, Hochul referred her to a commission that is yet to become active — and lacks the authority to issue discipline.