Governor Kathy Hochul was successful in her bid to upend the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act after legislators caved to finalize an overall budget deal.
Some of the city’s new aid will be canceled out by pension boosts.
A law designed to protect the environment will be partially rolled back to pave the way for much-needed homes.
The Department of Justice has terminated more than 100 immigration judges since last year as it has pressured courts to order more deportations.
The legislation comes after months of haggling over how best to protect New Yorkers from President Trump’s immigration crackdown.
Footage published by New York Focus sparked a debate over deputies’ practice of calling Border Patrol on Spanish-speaking drivers.
Hakeem Jeffries urged Albany to avoid maps that aggressively boosted Democrats, sources told New York Focus.
Shelter providers have had to lay off staff, while the children’s already uncertain futures have become even murkier.
The governor has yet to nominate heads of the State Commission of Correction, which now lacks a quorum.
After a New York Focus investigation, a Bronx charity distributed nearly $400,000 to survivors of a deadly 2022 fire.
Also: Michael Bloomberg gives $1.5 million to a pro-charter school group.
The prison system often postpones or rejects incarcerated people’s requests to be closer to their children, jeopardizing family ties.
Trump administration rules are keeping immigrant kids detained, even when their parents are available to care for them. Families are using a new legal tool to free them.
New York City’s $125 billion executive budget hinges on taxes and cuts whose details are still being worked out in Albany.
The Hochul administration now has a chance to relax New York’s child care staffing ratios — among the country’s strictest — after 26 years. But will it?
Michel Blot was reassigned from Bedford Hills Correctional Facility to Sing Sing after prisoners and advocates raised concerns.
Comptroller Tom DiNapoli’s Democratic primary opponents say they’d refuse law firm donations if elected.
Governor Kathy Hochul’s announcement that a deal had been reached led to a flurry of recriminations from lawmakers.
Two years after Gov. Hochul unveiled her signature literacy policy, advocates say the findings underscore an urgent need for sweeping literacy reform.
Oswego County sheriff’s deputies held drivers for up to 45 minutes as they waited for immigration agents, potentially breaking the law.
Master agreements let the city wildly exceed spending projections while avoiding typical oversight, the city’s comptroller found.
State Senator James Skoufis represents a redder district than almost any other Democrat in Albany.
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The East Ramapo school board has been overseen by state monitors for years after it slashed millions in public school funds to bankroll private religious education.
Hochul’s counter would limit informal collusion with ICE only in civil matters.
Also: A super PAC targets Democratic Socialists.
Cheikh Fall has spent nearly two decades helping New York immigrants from his home region seek asylum in the United States.
A super PAC has spent six figures on the race over the last week — more than all the candidates had raised as of last month, combined.
New rules could result in thousands of New Yorkers losing their food benefits this summer.
The mayor may delay his executive budget proposal while he awaits billions of dollars in potential Albany aid.
160,000 injured New Yorkers seek workers’ compensation each year — but in recent years, regulators have tilted the scales towards employers and insurers.
The leader of Reinvent Albany discusses a data center subsidy in Rockland County that flew under the radar for years.
Twenty-two percent of people arrested by ICE in New York state during Trump’s second term have left the country voluntarily — up from less than 1 percent under Biden.
No other project in the country has gotten such a large subsidy to create so few jobs, according to watchdogs.
A federally mandated child welfare oversight body has called on the Office of Children and Family Services to curtail facilities’ use of isolation and increase transparency.
A review of federal court documents by THE CITY reveals three dozen cases in which local law enforcement allegedly cooperated with ICE agents.
The governor has asked for cost-cutting plans on pricey housing vouchers and public school programs, sources say.
Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins says she sees “no reason” to remove Senator Luis Sepúlveda as judiciary chair.
The Carlyle Group’s effort to buy up rental housing has gotten a $578 million boost from the city and state.
We answer your questions on the state’s notoriously opaque budget process.