The indictment has exposed cracks in New York’s widely admired way of helping fund campaigns.
A week after incarcerated journalist Sara Kielly published an article criticizing the prison system for its solitary confinement practices, officers ransacked her cell.
Foreign governments have long courted local officials. Prosecutors are starting to go after them.
Nearly half of the state’s child care providers have raised tuition and a third have lost staff, a new report found.
The mayor and governor have long hailed their partnership. Will it survive federal corruption charges?
A landmark reform law was meant to overhaul carceral punishment in New York. Getting prisons to follow it has been an uphill battle.
As the state’s plans to get New Yorkers out of their cars stall, Governor Hochul is championing a highway expansion in the Hudson Valley.
Carol Shapiro spent two years trying to reform the state Board of Parole. Little has changed.
From New York City to Buffalo, people are driving a lot more than they did before the pandemic.
The retiree says a local rooftop solar company and its partners forged her signature to sign her up for a loan she could not afford.
The governor promised to fill the chronically understaffed Board of Parole. Nearly half of her nominations have ended in disaster.
Hundreds of Child Victims Act cases have been filed against New York schools, some over accused serial offenders that could leave districts with tens of millions of dollars in liability.
A historic debt relief deal was meant to rescue cabbies from a medallion value crash. But some lenders are insisting drivers pay off loans in full, even if they can’t afford to.
New York’s consumer advocacy groups struggle to compete with well-funded utilities and corporations. Lawmakers want to level the playing field.
There are at least three ways a Trump administration could try to stop the transit-funding toll.
More than 53,000 New Yorkers are allegedly facing delays regarding eligibility for benefits.
Payments for newborns have reduced poverty elsewhere, but are a novel idea in New York.
We’re collecting stories from teachers across the state.
The Citizens Budget Commission wants the governor to halt a just-passed extension of the Industrial and Commercial Abatement Program so a study of the controversial subsidy can be completed.
A newly discovered 80-page housing package would have included good cause eviction, but legislators were dissuaded by Kathy Hochul’s opposition.
Hochul says she’s working with the legislature to replace congestion pricing, but key legislators say they aren’t aware of any conversations.
The state’s energy regulator has more work than ever — and far fewer employees than it did three decades ago.
It’s unclear whether the legislature is taking steps to address its security vulnerabilities.
New immigrants say meager meals from a shelter operator and police harassment are leaving them with few ways to feed themselves.
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 a fellow officer — 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.