Longstanding perks like premium-free insurance could be at risk due to a city budget crunch.
Governor Hochul’s budget allocates only a fraction of what the state Board of Regents suggested for three state-owned Indigenous schools.
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 campaign has created 64 public fundraising web pages for people to raise money on its behalf. But it didn’t disclose any intermediaries.
Roughly 60,000 children will lose vouchers over the next year without more funding.
Governor Kathy Hochul’s proposal to make canceling subscriptions easier would exempt many major companies. The Senate wants to eliminate that loophole.
A New York Focus investigation finds that the state can take up to seven years to resolve complaints against educators.
Thousands of New Yorkers have had their food benefits stolen. Meanwhile, Congress will likely move forward with major cuts to the lifeline program.
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.
Unless Albany offers more money, tens of thousands of parents in New York City are set to lose child care assistance this year. We spoke to six of them.
The tricks that we use to cover state government work just as well when looking into city politics.
Donors solicited by at least three undisclosed bundlers — Tonio Burgos, Jim Whelan, and Rick Ostroff — were told their gifts would be matched with public funds, despite that being barred by city election law.
The company used to help employers avoid paying for workers’ benefits. Now it’s slated to administer health insurance for tens of thousands of low-wage New Yorkers.
The candidates did not disclose Solidarity PAC’s fundraising role in campaign finance disclosures.
The mayor enlisted an army of contractors to build a one-stop benefits platform. Two years and $100 million later, the website is a skeleton of what it was supposed to be.
We read the governor’s, Senate’s, and Assembly’s budget proposals — so you don’t have to.
The compromise would reduce business taxes and raise the benefit level, but leave the program inadequately funded.
A peek behind the curtain of how our reporters were able to analyze hundreds of pages of complicated budget documents (without losing their minds).
The biggest winners from the proposed break make well above New York’s median income.
The governor’s proposal could leave 24 districts with less Foundation Aid than expected. The one-house budgets aim to fix that.
Nonprofits form the backbone of the state’s social service sector, and they may be getting some overdue relief in this year’s budget.
The legislature rejected Hochul’s central public safety policy priorities while embracing proposals to increase prison oversight.
In New York, half of CIU exonerations involve prosecutorial misconduct, but DAs rarely acknowledge who got it wrong.
Here’s where the Senate, Assembly, and governor stand on funding New York’s green transition.
The budget plans set up a fight with Governor Kathy Hochul, who did not propose substantial new investments at all.
Here’s what the key players in the state budget process are proposing on spending and taxes.
We answer your questions on the state’s notoriously opaque budget process.
They got tens of millions of taxpayer dollars to defend Andrew Cuomo against scandal. Now, they’re helping fund his comeback.
In many cases, electrifying homes is cheaper, according to one new study.
No time to read our big investigation? Here’s a quick summary of everything you need to know.
The secretive units have fallen short on their promise to help wrongfully convicted New Yorkers.
A New York Focus investigation reveals how party officials and politically connected law firms continue to profit from court-appointed roles.
Former prison agency staff and newly released documents describe a patronage network centered on Commissioner Daniel Martuscello III’s family.
This isn’t Daniel Martuscello’s first crisis. An investigation reveals how his family weathered one scandal after another on their road to dominating New York’s prison system.
The state is pushing ahead on all-electric buildings, but a draft update to the building code leaves out other key recommendations from the state’s climate plan.
Absent more money from the state, city officials warn that they will hit a funding cliff as early as April.
The state has yet to publish a building code update, promised in December, which should include requirements to phase out fossil fuel appliances in new homes.
New state education rules will cut funding to private schools that can’t provide the same level of education as public schools. The ultra-Orthodox community is fighting back.