During the first eight weeks of omicron, only one jail system administered enough tests to screen every incarcerated person even once, a New York Focus analysis found. Most didn’t come close to that rate.
The city’s Department of Housing Preservation & Development continues to work with construction companies that have been found liable for wage theft.
The law leaves key decisions to an agency with a history of dragging its feet on implementing water quality legislation.
Adrienne Harris was approved to lead New York’s Department of Financial Services by a wide margin, as a progressive push to block her nomination sputtered.
But if he loses his appeal and Gov. Kathy Hochul declines to grant him clemency, he will likely be sent back to prison.
Hochul proposed raising the cap on Medicaid spending, which Cuomo created, and boosting reimbursement rates, which Cuomo cut.
A rift grew among birth advocates as progressive legislators asked them to compromise with the governor – or risk a veto.
The $216 billion budget would ban gas in new construction, but otherwise offers few dramatic moves on climate.
New York is building renewables - but it doesn’t have a plan to shut down the plants they’re supposed to replace.
Child care used to be Hochul’s marquee issue. Now, she’s proposing a modest expansion—but only if Congress doesn’t act.
Two proposals in Governor Kathy Hochul’s State of the State would constitute the most significant expansion of New York’s health plan for low-income individuals in years.
Kim accuses the Chinese-American Planning Council of rampant wage theft—and, in coordination with 1199SEIU, of blocking workers’ access to the courts.
The state spends $1.6 billion a year subsidizing oil and gas. Lawmakers are trying to eliminate about one-fifth of that spending.
In the latest of a series of steps Hochul has taken to change the direction of drug policy, doctors will no longer have to ask insurance companies for permission to prescribe opioid use disorder medications to Medicaid patients.
New York was counting on federal money to help pay for its transition to clean energy, which will cost the state an estimated $15 billion each year.
A recent report renewed a decades-long debate over a regulatory requirement that cell towers in Adirondack Park be “substantially invisible.”
Governor Hochul and Mayor de Blasio’s quixotic plan to relocate women from Rikers Island to the Bedford Hills state prison has prompted fierce opposition from women who insist they do not want to go.
Hochul argues the office would be redundant, because the state already protects utility consumers.
Reginald Randolph is currently serving a two to four year sentence in state prison for stealing cold medicine.
Three days before the deadline to opt out of a new health insurance plan, Westchester retirees still don’t know what’s in it.