The first significant pay increase in years could strengthen the office responsible for reviewing major legislation.
Three months after the state legislature ended session without passing immigration protections, 15 elected officials faced down arrest to protest ICE and state inaction.
Electric bills in New York haven’t been this high for a decade, and they’re about to rise even more. Here’s why.
Thousands of New Yorkers have new health insurance from the company Leading Edge Administrators. One Massachusetts retiree’s battle with the company highlights the risks they face.
A once-touted statewide conviction review unit lacks independence, authority, and transparency — and Albany hasn’t moved to fix it.
So far this year, the state’s county jails have held six times more people for federal immigration authorities than they did in all of 2024.
Prisoners seeking help from the AG’s office have little chance of review. Here’s one applicant’s story.
The attorney general’s conviction review bureau has investigated just a handful of innocence claims of the hundreds it’s received since 2012.
Officers in New York State crashed their official vehicles, hit other motorists and arrived to work reeking of alcohol. And yet, they sometimes evaded criminal punishment, an investigation found.
The New York Times and New York Focus gathered thousands of files from around half of New York State’s nearly 500 law enforcement agencies.
GOP Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan blasted New York sanctuary policies during a June congressional hearing. Newly obtained emails tell a different story.
A PPL vice president admitted pre-contract talks between the company and New York’s health department, after denying it under oath last month.
New Yorkers are suing to reverse a Trump administration policy change that has upended the futures of tens of thousands of young immigrants.
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.