Follow along with New York Focus as we cover the governor’s annual address.
Here’s what our reporters will be watching for during Governor Kathy Hochul’s agenda-setting address that will kick off state budget negotiations.
Office of Children and Family Services facilities keep youth in small cells for days or weeks at a time, violating state regulations, the suit claims.
The feds gave New York key evidence on horse racing’s largest doping ring. State regulators have done nothing with it for years.
Michael Blake blasted Representative Ritchie Torres for his investments in firms serving the military — but has long worked for one himself, disclosures show.
Drug policy advocates are calling a new reporting mandate a missed opportunity for needed transparency and sustained action.
The state plans to stabilize the Empower+ program with a record amount of money from the pollution pricing program RGGI.
One hundred and forty laws that almost were.
The letters paint a picture of a CIU process rife with roadblocks, especially for applicants who didn’t have lawyers.
The state plans to ask a court to dismiss some 500 prison sexual assault lawsuits for not strictly abiding by filing requirements.
Recently adopted environmental regulations have added months to New York’s already yearslong energy permitting process, colliding with new deadlines for federal subsidies.
Eleventh-hour negotiations could decide the fate of legislation to make it easier for survivors to cancel debt caused by their abuse.
The governor is poised to veto a bill to insulate a business transparency law from federal shifts, according to the bill’s sponsor.
New Yorkers who rely on federal food assistance could see more program disruptions in upcoming months.
Some of downstate New York’s most used hiking trails are badly eroding. President Trump’s cuts have slashed the crews working to save them.
The murder has led to more tumult than New York’s prison system has seen since the Attica prison uprising over five decades ago.
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 York’s Office of Addiction Services and Supports is running television ads featuring AI-generated faces without disclosing the technology to viewers.
Guards demanded body scanners to cut down on contraband. Now they’re turning visitors away over their hygiene and medical supplies.
In response to reporting by New York Focus and Gothamist, State Senator Zellnor Myrie has introduced a bill to standardize debt calculations.