State officials have so far dodged questions about the future of New York’s largest health plan. A hearing on Tuesday could provide some insight.
The mayor’s Tin Cup Day speech hinges on a bold claim about the city’s relationship with the state.
A foreclosure case in Brooklyn highlights ties between the courts and political party clubhouses.
New York Focus identified more than a thousand cases where a disputed interest formula increased a home’s bidding price at auction, allowing a bank to obtain it for a pittance.
Will this week’s budget hearing provide insight into the state’s plan to salvage its safety net?
New York utilities spend $1 billion a year replacing old gas pipes. New legislation would force them to reveal where that money is being spent.
A yearslong staffing crisis at state-run facilities has taken its toll on incarcerated kids and the workers who watch over them.
The move came weeks after Hochul proposed measures to lower the cost of auto insurance.
Vornado Realty Trust has a stake in Halmar’s proposal to rebuild the Manhattan rail hub.
The bill would dissolve contracts that allow federal immigration authorities to use county jails, but would leave more informal collaboration with local law enforcement untouched.
State officials have voiced renewed interest in changing how New York counts its greenhouse gas emissions.
The proposal follows a New York Focus and ProPublica investigation that found counties had placed thousands of adults and children in often-dilapidated hotels as the main response to homelessness.
The state’s top education officials head to the hot seat Thursday for a lengthy budget hearing. Here are some questions we’d put on the table.
New York State troopers used the badge to settle personal scores and elicit favors. Still, they remained on the job, an investigation found.
Lawmakers will be grilling top state energy and environmental officials Wednesday in a marathon budget hearing. Here are some of the questions we’d ask.
Nine months after the prison guard strike, incarcerated people are being denied early release after not completing programming that they don’t have access to.
We’re expanding our coverage of education, immigration, and politics.
Some officials and residents in Cheektowaga want a broader overhaul of their cops’ interactions with immigration agents.
The governor’s campaign got an influx of donations from theater producers as its trade group lobbied her office to “enhance” the credit.
The governor’s meeting logs are 15 months out of date, and she won’t release her calendar.
New York Focus interviewed Lieutenant Governor Antonio Delgado as he challenges his boss for the Democratic nomination for governor.
State regulators ignored FBI evidence of horse drug purchases for years. That was a “huge failing,” a key assemblymember said.
A sweeping child care expansion and opposition to President Trump have united them, but significant divisions remain.
Hochul outlined a slew of proposals on Tuesday to curb energy bills and clean up the grid, but her push for a nuclear energy renaissance looms over them all.
Hochul has proposed a multibillion-dollar plan that she says would ultimately deliver free child care to every New York family — without tapping additional revenue sources.
A boom year on Wall Street may help offset federal cuts — for now.
On criminal justice, there were notable omissions in the governor’s address.
Immigrant rights advocates and some lawmakers welcomed her proposals, but said that the measures don’t go far enough.
The governor’s vision for tackling historic cuts to public benefit programs remains blurry.
New York’s building trade unions are turning out in force to try to save the mammoth energy projects from Trump’s latest attack.
Our investigation into conviction integrity units reveals that they reinforce a broken system. Help us expand on this reporting.
Follow along with New York Focus as we cover the governor’s annual address.
Here’s what our reporters will be watching for during Governor Kathy Hochul’s agenda-setting address that will kick off state budget negotiations.
Office of Children and Family Services facilities keep youth in small cells for days or weeks at a time, violating state regulations, the suit claims.
New York racing regulators have failed to take action against drug buyers for years, even after federal law enforcement gave them clear evidence of illegal activity.
The feds gave New York key evidence on horse racing’s largest doping ring. State regulators have done nothing with it for years.
Michael Blake blasted Representative Ritchie Torres for his investments in firms serving the military — but has long worked for one himself, disclosures show.
Drug policy advocates are calling a new reporting mandate a missed opportunity for needed transparency and sustained action.
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The state plans to stabilize the Empower+ program with a record amount of money from the pollution pricing program RGGI.