New York suburbs have long lagged their peers in building new housing. A few towns are eyeing a different approach.

When disabled litigants who can’t to come to court in person request virtual appearances, they often don’t hear back.

Long Island and Westchester build housing at some of the lowest rates of any suburban area in the country, fueling high rents and home prices across the region.

The ruling, which isn’t binding on other judges but will surely be noted by them, was based on the 2019 bail reform law’s requirement that judges consider defendants’ ability to afford bail.

The approval will create hundreds of units of both affordable and market rate housing and has sparked debate in progressive circles over how to approach private development.

The mayor and major city unions plan to press the City Council to clear a path for a privatized Medicare plan for retired city workers.

Janet DiFiore may have gotten a say in picking her interim successor, boosting a judge who has never once voted against her.

Janet DiFiore may have gotten a say in picking her interim successor, boosting a judge who has never once voted against her.

Many judges have ignored a 2016 mandate from New York’s top court that parents must be allowed to present evidence in their defense before they lose custody of their kids.

The cancellation of a proposed cost-saving health plan after retired city workers sued could drain a special fund City Hall and unions use to pay employee benefits.

With the plan tied up in court, insurers Elevance Health and Empire BlueCross BlueShield pulled out of a controversial deal to switch retired city workers to privately run health insurance.

For housing advocates, getting the legislature to expand the right to a court hearing before evictions was one thing. Getting judges to implement it is another.

Governor Hochul’s pick to replace the resigning Court of Appeals Chief Judge could break up the conservative bloc that controls the court—or entrench it.

A new four-judge bloc has consistently voted together in its most recent term, impacting criminal defendants, workers and people suing police.

New York Focus reached four voters listed as signatories who said they never signed. A review of other signatures suggests they might not be the only ones.

With less than a week left before the primary, two groups boosting moderate Democratic candidates for the state legislature have not submitted disclosures required by campaign finance law.

“We’re basically being blocked out in the process of even trying to bid on the work,” said one union leader.

New York elections could soon be more vulnerable to hacks, after lobbyists, the NAACP, and the Assembly elections committee chair teamed up to kill an election security bill.

Hundreds of thousands of city workers and their dependents could have their healthcare shifted to a cheaper plan by 2024, documents show.

After New York Focus revealed that Hochul had failed to disclose the individuals behind corporate donations to her campaign, she provided that information for recent donors — revealing major support from a nursing home industry powerhouse.