New York has one of the weakest consumer protection laws in the country. This year’s state budget may change that.
As real estate developers resist wage guarantees and try to roll back tenants’ rights, a potential budget deal is at an impasse.
New York legislators have a plan to claim billions in federal funding for health care, driving a fight between industry groups.
We answer your questions on the state’s notoriously opaque budget process.
In the New York City teachers union, anger over a plan to privatize retiree health care could send a longshot campaign over the edge.
Her administration says the fund won’t be harmed. Legal experts question whether she can take it at all.
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law directed billions toward public transit in New York, but the state is choosing to spend billions more on highways.
Some Court of Appeals judges are far more likely to grant requests to hear appeals than others, a New York Focus analysis found.
Westchester’s Edgemont community wants to secede from its town — and has scored a legal carveout to let it.
With chapter amendments, governors can make major changes to pending laws. Kathy Hochul uses them more than any executive before her.
A laundry company wants to turn its factory into 13-story apartment buildings, sparking the latest in a series of fierce zoning fights.
The rulings shed light on the leanings of Caitlin Halligan, the court’s newest judge and frequent tie-breaker.
While the United States Supreme Court seeks to restrict the government’s ability to regulate, the New York Court of Appeals is broadening it.
The Sand Land mine is defying multiple orders to cease operations. Politicians are at a loss for how to respond.
Acting Supreme Court Justice Ralph Fabrizio has faced formal complaints for berating and threatening lawyers in more than a dozen incidents.
City policies have proven so volatile, even aid workers urged asylum seekers to get out of New York if they can.
A seemingly minor change in access to city jails has made it much harder for a lauded debate course to recruit volunteers.
The Adams administration said the city would replace discontinued Rikers courses. “I can say for certain that that’s not true,” one worker told New York Focus.
In California, getting labor on board was essential to addressing the housing crisis. In New York, unions say the governor has barely tried.
New York Focus revealed routine secret instructions used to guide judges’ decisions. Civil rights lawyers are suing to make them public.