This year, state legislators passed major bills in response to the overdose crisis. Will Cuomo sign them?

Jeremy Zellner uses his dual role as Erie County’s chief election administrator and Democratic Party chair to create obstacles for outsider candidates, critics charge.

“The whole city is up for grabs”: from office of the comptroller to the city council, progressives could pull off a wave of critical victories.

“The police can only go as far as the DA lets them,” one defense attorney said.

A progressive campaign to block the confirmation of Governor Cuomo’s nominee to the New York Court of Appeals failed by just a few votes

The former federal prosecutor joined the Democratic Party in 2017, after registering with no party and casting ballots only in presidential-year contests.

Madeline Singas, a close Cuomo ally, has been a prominent opponent of criminal justice reforms and has taken a punitive approach as Nassau County DA, defenders say.

Under Tali Farhadian Weinstein’s leadership, Brooklyn’s unit exonerated just three people — a far lower rate than in previous years.

Manhattan D.A. candidates vow to reduce lengthy sentences—but sharp differences between their approaches remain

A quarter million retired city workers could be left with bigger health insurance bills and fewer doctor choices under a city plan to change their health insurance.

The major provisions of New York’s 2021 budget.

A 2011 rule prevents New York from adequately funding Medicaid, advocates say. This year’s budget could see it repealed.

In 2019, Broome County promised an addiction treatment program in its jail. Two years later, the program is a “farce,” one advocate said.

After months of conflict involving alleged intimidation and potentially illegal firings, workers at Queens Defenders voted overwhelmingly to unionize.

Flaws in an updated website make it extremely difficult to track who is funding campaigns, journalists and watchdogs say, but the BOE insists that “the site is fully functioning.”

“People in prison deserve healthcare, and this is healthcare.” Legislators push to offer treatment for drug addiction in jails and prisons

In a striking sign of activists’ success, most candidates running in the June election for DA say they would not prosecute cases involving consensual sex work.

Amid an ongoing union election at the Queens indigent defense law firm, two outspoken union supporters were fired without warning.

Three candidates in the June election say they would not join the association of state DAs, which has fought measures such as bail reform.

Amid dramatic spikes in drug overdoses and HIV cases, legislators and public health professionals push for New York to decriminalize sterile syringes.