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.

Roughly 60,000 children will lose vouchers over the next year without more funding.

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.

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.

Donors solicited by at least three undisclosed bundlers — Tonio Burgos, Jim Whelan, and Rick Ostroff — were told their gifts would be matched with public funds, despite that being barred by city election law.

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.

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.

Nonprofits form the backbone of the state’s social service sector, and they may be getting some overdue relief in this year’s budget.

The legislature rejected Hochul’s central public safety policy priorities while embracing proposals to increase prison oversight.

In New York, half of CIU exonerations involve prosecutorial misconduct, but DAs rarely acknowledge who got it wrong.

Here’s where the Senate, Assembly, and governor stand on funding New York’s green transition.