Trump’s immigration crackdown is having a chilling effect on New Yorkers’ access to public benefits.
After a strike led state prisons to stop accepting new prisoners, local jails have been left holding thousands of extra people.
Business interests have launched a campaign to back National Grid’s demands for more gas, with fingerprints of the utility’s lobbying firm.
New York lawmakers are giving more money to the Bronx Community Foundation, which has failed to spend it in the past.
Workers are currently forced to pay for insurance that many don’t want.
New York’s bail reform law didn’t eliminate cash bail and hasn’t led to increased crime or recidivism. The Trump administration is still targeting it.
“New Yorkers did not agree to trade their right to privacy for the promise of free internet,” key committee chairs wrote to city officials.
The company in charge said they would explore other insurance options.
The Legal Aid Society alleges that DOCCS declared an overbroad emergency to keep incarcerated people locked in their cells for upward of 20 hours a day.
With a hearing on New York’s troubled home care program set for Thursday, here are five questions we’d like answered.
The New York City mayor made the claim during a press conference in late July.
Frank Seddio is representing Jules Parisien in over 500 cases — despite the physician’s history of insurance fraud allegations.
Whether legislators should return to Albany this year to tackle historic cuts to Medicaid and food assistance has become a thorny political question.
Fraud and falsehoods often don’t stop debt collectors from pursuing their targets for years.
First-time offenders might receive community service, but penalties may be severe.
Big Apple Connect, the mayor’s flagship free internet service for public housing residents, is quietly being used to expand the NYPD’s real-time, remote surveillance. Here’s what we still don’t know about the clandestine program.
The Adams administration is using its flagship broadband program to give police real-time access to NYCHA camera feeds — without telling anyone.
There were 351 shooting incidents, 413 shooting victims, and 149 murders during the first half of the year.
Public comments are closing soon for an underwater pipeline project that sprang back to life this spring after talks between Hochul and Trump.
There are 1,500 families on the program waitlist in New York City alone, new state data shows.
Poverty rates among New York’s aging population are rising as the federal government pares back support for longstanding social service programs.
New York school districts are budgeted to spend $89 billion on public education in the 2024–25 school year.
Several states already proactively send out payments in much larger amounts than New York currently does.
Short-staffed since a strike this winter, the prison system is keeping people locked in their boiling cells and dorms for upwards of 21 hours a day.
Then-Governor Andrew Cuomo repeatedly cited federal data placing New York state 38th or 39th nationally.
Nearly $50 million will come specifically from public radio and TV stations, including rural ones that rely heavily on federal money.
The judge suggested he’ll rule that the state is violating its climate law.
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Affordability concerns — especially housing and the cost of raising a family — are major drivers of population loss in New York state.
Building nuclear will test whether New York state is still capable of constructing megaprojects as it has done in the past.
As environmental justice groups seek to compel the state to follow its climate law, the Hochul administration is set to argue that it deserves a pass.
And the delays have gotten worse in recent months.
Fiscal advocates warn the governor and state lawmakers against punting a difficult discussion on how to deal with imminent cuts.
Attyx, formerly known as SUNCo, is set to lose its license to operate in the state over what regulators called “false and misleading” sales pitches.
The prison agency’s security ranks are 4,700 corrections officers and sergeants short of what it says it needs to run every program and housing area effectively.
Offering hard-to-use benefits instead of cash could help two state-funded companies dodge a 2011 law meant to boost care workers’ pay.
Empower+ helps thousands of New Yorkers afford energy efficiency upgrades. The state is planning to slash funding by nearly two-thirds in two years.
New York’s gun shop owners are wary about the loss of federal oversight, with politicians warning the cuts will lead to increased trafficking, violence, and theft.
One week in June, only a third of the people who called the Labor Department’s unemployment help line reached a real person.
Trump’s megabill gives wind and solar companies one year to put as many shovels in the ground as possible. They want New York officials to help.