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.

The Bronx Democratic Party is gaining power. So is a consulting firm tied to its chair.

The party collected record-breaking gifts from Airbnb and Uber, while party operatives lobbied Bronx lawmakers.

Fossil fuel interests have enlisted prominent former elected officials to make the case that gas is here to stay.

One expert called Senator Luis Sepúlveda’s record of missed deadlines, incorrect paperwork, and no-shows “professional negligence.”

Longtime Cuomo aide Charlie King has been involved in efforts to boost Assemblymember Jordan J.G. Wright.

Using an exemption to a 2012 law, the Partnership for New York City has revealed the names of donors to its political arm, but not the amount each gave.

Nearly half a million New Yorkers on the Essential Plan could lose their coverage this summer.

That number is up from 21 last July. New York City’s waitlist alone has surged to over 17,000 — a tenfold increase in less than a year.

The city could lose $239 million from the policy, which is supported by business groups while unions remain on the sidelines.

Some climate activists want the mayor to take a stronger stance. He previously said the state’s climate law “is not a suggestion. It is a mandate.”

Amid abortion bans and rising digital surveillance, Albany lawmakers are revisiting an effort to stop companies from selling sensitive health information.

The administration will soon send legislators a plan to meet a mandate capping class sizes, said NYC Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels.

The governor, Senate, and Assembly all have different ideas for how to implement this year’s increases for human services contracts.