New York utilities spend $1 billion a year replacing old gas pipes. New legislation would force them to reveal where that money is being spent.

The state’s top education officials head to the hot seat Thursday for a lengthy budget hearing. Here are some questions we’d put on the table.

Lawmakers will be grilling top state energy and environmental officials Wednesday in a marathon budget hearing. Here are some of the questions we’d ask.

Hochul outlined a slew of proposals on Tuesday to curb energy bills and clean up the grid, but her push for a nuclear energy renaissance looms over them all.

Hochul has proposed a multibillion-dollar plan that she says would ultimately deliver free child care to every New York family — without tapping additional revenue sources.

The governor’s vision for tackling historic cuts to public benefit programs remains blurry.

Here’s what our reporters will be watching for during Governor Kathy Hochul’s agenda-setting address that will kick off state budget negotiations.

The state plans to stabilize the Empower+ program with a record amount of money from the pollution pricing program RGGI.

With nearly 1,500 unfilled jobs, New York City’s Department of Social Services is leaning on mandatory overtime to keep up.

A health insurer offering shoddy coverage to low-wage workers at taxpayer expense will be replaced next year. But will what comes next be any better?

New Yorkers will pay more for wind and solar if Hochul doesn’t sign property tax legislation in the coming days, the industry says.

Federal HEAP funding will not reach New Yorkers until at least November 24, state officials say.

Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers could lose their food benefits due to new SNAP work requirements, after the Trump administration phased them in months earlier than expected.

The mayor-elect’s approach reflects a view that is going mainstream: To succeed, climate policies may need to lose the label.

The federal government shutdown and new work requirements will throw New York’s food stamps program into chaos.

“We have time to work it out,” Governor Kathy Hochul said.

Governor Kathy Hochul has yet to indicate whether, or how, New York might plug a funding hole for Empower+, a key energy affordability program.

Hochul appears to have snubbed advocates, providers, and unions, while they try to figure out how serious she is about universal child care.

In a state Senate hearing on spiraling energy bills, consumer advocates lamented the closed-door negotiations at the heart of New York’s ratemaking process.

Electric bills in New York haven’t been this high for a decade, and they’re about to rise even more. Here’s why.