Five months after a law to scale back solitary confinement went into effect, a majority of the New York prison system’s solitary population had been held there for longer than the law permits.

The prison agency has stonewalled lawmakers’ requests for information justifying the policy.

This summer’s heat and drought have driven New York farmers’ input costs up and their yields down, straining their finances and further pushing up food prices.

Prison officials had already seen his genitals three times. But the superintendent ordered a more invasive exam, the lawsuit alleges. (Note: detailed descriptions.)

The recently passed Inflation Reduction Act turbocharges the market for electric cars at the expense of other forms of transit. A New York bill aims to help e-bikes catch up.

Janet DiFiore may have gotten a say in picking her interim successor, boosting a judge who has never once voted against her.

Janet DiFiore may have gotten a say in picking her interim successor, boosting a judge who has never once voted against her.

Many judges have ignored a 2016 mandate from New York’s top court that parents must be allowed to present evidence in their defense before they lose custody of their kids.

The ban had helped the local sheriff rake in hundreds of thousands of dollars in profit from detainee video and phone call fees.

A plan to move a family medicine clinic in a low-income Bronx neighborhood has sparked backlash from patients and staff.

The deal has been two years in the making, but it’s been a secret for most of that time.

Heat kills hundreds of New Yorkers every summer - but health experts say a “cold weather bias” keeps policymakers from prioritizing the issue.

For housing advocates, getting the legislature to expand the right to a court hearing before evictions was one thing. Getting judges to implement it is another.

The court’s last term included a slew of cases rolling back defendants’ rights. Progressives hope to reset that trajectory.

Governor Hochul’s pick to replace the resigning Court of Appeals Chief Judge could break up the conservative bloc that controls the court—or entrench it.

A new four-judge bloc has consistently voted together in its most recent term, impacting criminal defendants, workers and people suing police.

ConEd wants to jack up electric bills by 10 percent, and gas by 15 percent. Here’s what that would pay for.

New York Focus reached four voters listed as signatories who said they never signed. A review of other signatures suggests they might not be the only ones.

With less than a week left before the primary, two groups boosting moderate Democratic candidates for the state legislature have not submitted disclosures required by campaign finance law.

The state’s own expert council, tasked with planning the law’s implementation, told the legislature to pass a gas ban this year. They were ignored.