
New York law mandates gender-affirming care — but some hospitals are backing down anyway.

Environmentalists have long charged that New York is falling short of its climate mandates. Now, they’re taking the state to court.

Mental health providers are scrambling to prevent mass layoffs and program closures, leaving advocates urging state leaders to step in before it’s too late.

Governor Hochul’s budget allocates only a fraction of what the state Board of Regents suggested for three state-owned Indigenous schools.

They want to beef up the powerful but little-known State Commission of Correction.

Nantwi’s cellmate, the only incarcerated witness in the room as guards allegedly killed the 22-year-old, speaks out for the first time.

The campaign has created 64 public fundraising web pages for people to raise money on its behalf. But it didn’t disclose any intermediaries.

Governor Kathy Hochul’s proposal to make canceling subscriptions easier would exempt many major companies. The Senate wants to eliminate that loophole.

A New York Focus investigation finds that the state can take up to seven years to resolve complaints against educators.

Thousands of New Yorkers have had their food benefits stolen. Meanwhile, Congress will likely move forward with major cuts to the lifeline program.

In rural New York, even some Republicans are frustrated as the administration halts $186 million in conservation payments to farmers.

A 2023 law is transforming the state power authority into one of New York’s biggest renewable developers. Some still want it to go further.

Unless Albany offers more money, tens of thousands of parents in New York City are set to lose child care assistance this year. We spoke to six of them.

The company used to help employers avoid paying for workers’ benefits. Now it’s slated to administer health insurance for tens of thousands of low-wage New Yorkers.

The candidates did not disclose Solidarity PAC’s fundraising role in campaign finance disclosures.

The mayor enlisted an army of contractors to build a one-stop benefits platform. Two years and $100 million later, the website is a skeleton of what it was supposed to be.

We read the governor’s, Senate’s, and Assembly’s budget proposals — so you don’t have to.

The compromise would reduce business taxes and raise the benefit level, but leave the program inadequately funded.

The biggest winners from the proposed break make well above New York’s median income.

The governor’s proposal could leave 24 districts with less Foundation Aid than expected. The one-house budgets aim to fix that.