Mayor Mike Spano has stated his administration has not been lobbied by his powerful brother’s firm. Emails indicate otherwise.

Health insurer Leading Edge once tried to cancel a coma patient’s insurance and, in another case, retracted approval for surgery after the bill arrived.

This week was data-focused, as our reporters documented lengthy mental health wait times and a secretive gang database that feeds directly to the Trump administration.

For 20 years, the state police have been quietly building a database of suspected gang members — and they’re feeding it to Donald Trump’s administration.

In some counties, the waitlist for state-funded mental health treatment programs can exceed two years.

The lawsuit reveals that DOCCS is considering pausing solitary confinement law on Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays, and any other day designated by the commissioner.

The country’s biggest public housing authority is counting on a Chinese company to supply thousands of new energy-saving window heat pumps.

Here are the key findings from the second installment of our investigation into New York’s conviction integrity units.

No lawmaker will take credit for the proposal, but its quiet circulation has sparked fierce debate over state control of religious education.

Following New York Focus’s reporting, the state health department is moving to implement a law meant to boost kidney donations.

“There’s no legal basis for what they’re trying to do,” said one legal expert.

The detention of three children and their mother shocked the town. It also highlighted just how much the region’s key industries depend on immigrant workers.

A Queens court’s failure to reveal a romance has sparked accusations of bias.

Hochul’s proposed rollbacks are one of the major sticking points in this year’s budget negotiations. One prosecutor’s support rested on a faulty anecdote.

Drastic cutbacks coupled with skyrocketing utility costs put seniors and other vulnerable households at greater risk for severe illness and death.

Plus: meet with New York Focus reporters in Albany on Monday

Yeshivas and other nonpublic schools face a looming deadline to prove they offer an education similar to the state’s public schools. A proposed bill would loosen those rules and potentially delay the deadline.

Officers recorded over 25,000 stops last year, a 50 percent increase over the previous year. Nine in 10 people stopped by the NYPD last year were Black or Latino.

New York law mandates gender-affirming care — but some hospitals are backing down anyway.

Environmentalists have long charged that New York is falling short of its climate mandates. Now, they’re taking the state to court.

Mental health providers are scrambling to prevent mass layoffs and program closures, leaving advocates urging state leaders to step in before it’s too late.

Longstanding perks like premium-free insurance could be at risk due to a city budget crunch.

Governor Hochul’s budget allocates only a fraction of what the state Board of Regents suggested for three state-owned Indigenous schools.

They want to beef up the powerful but little-known State Commission of Correction.

Nantwi’s cellmate, the only incarcerated witness in the room as guards allegedly killed the 22-year-old, speaks out for the first time.

The campaign has created 64 public fundraising web pages for people to raise money on its behalf. But it didn’t disclose any intermediaries.

Roughly 60,000 children will lose vouchers over the next year without more funding.

Governor Kathy Hochul’s proposal to make canceling subscriptions easier would exempt many major companies. The Senate wants to eliminate that loophole.

A New York Focus investigation finds that the state can take up to seven years to resolve complaints against educators.

Thousands of New Yorkers have had their food benefits stolen. Meanwhile, Congress will likely move forward with major cuts to the lifeline program.

In rural New York, even some Republicans are frustrated as the administration halts $186 million in conservation payments to farmers.

A 2023 law is transforming the state power authority into one of New York’s biggest renewable developers. Some still want it to go further.

Unless Albany offers more money, tens of thousands of parents in New York City are set to lose child care assistance this year. We spoke to six of them.

The tricks that we use to cover state government work just as well when looking into city politics.

Donors solicited by at least three undisclosed bundlers — Tonio Burgos, Jim Whelan, and Rick Ostroff — were told their gifts would be matched with public funds, despite that being barred by city election law.

The company used to help employers avoid paying for workers’ benefits. Now it’s slated to administer health insurance for tens of thousands of low-wage New Yorkers.

The candidates did not disclose Solidarity PAC’s fundraising role in campaign finance disclosures.

The mayor enlisted an army of contractors to build a one-stop benefits platform. Two years and $100 million later, the website is a skeleton of what it was supposed to be.

We read the governor’s, Senate’s, and Assembly’s budget proposals — so you don’t have to.

The compromise would reduce business taxes and raise the benefit level, but leave the program inadequately funded.