The prison agency’s security ranks are 4,700 corrections officers and sergeants short of what it says it needs to run every program and housing area effectively.

Offering hard-to-use benefits instead of cash could help two state-funded companies dodge a 2011 law meant to boost care workers’ pay.

He was slated to be the guest of honor at an event featuring a Hindu nationalist activist who has called for violence and boycotts against Muslims.

Mamdani’s plans for universal child care, fare-free transit, and affordable housing rely on Albany getting on board.

Nonprofit hospitals are required to help those struggling with medical debt, but critics say their policies are poorly advertised and underutilized.

Documents show that six county sheriffs’ offices and two state agencies have recently included excited delirium in their training.

Tens of thousands of NYC residents are sued every year for consumer debt. Many of them don’t know about it.

Learn the income thresholds, deadlines, and free support services that help New Yorkers shave down or sometimes completely erase medical debt.

Collectors claim they serve people who don’t exist, yet regulators rarely bar repeat offenders from the industry.

An expert calls the six-figure haul “extraordinary” for an unpaid party seat whose powers are picking judges, poll workers, and party officers.

Previously unpublished photos and video show how protesters set up encampments, burned police vehicles, and marched almost daily. Today, the NYPD operates much as it did before the movement.

We teamed up with Hell Gate to grill leading Democratic candidates in a forum unlike any other. Here’s what they said.

The state budget, finalized this week, increased the spending requirement on the city for the first time since the 1990s.

The final budget stops short of what legislators and advocates hoped for and appears to reflect more of Governor Hochul’s funding priorities.

Nick Spano went from prison sentence to multimillion-dollar lobbying comeback.

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.

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.

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.