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 Monroe County legislature’s president, Sabrina LaMar, has denigrated public defenders and shut them out of the now-eight-month-long process to appoint the next head of their office.
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 cancellation of a proposed cost-saving health plan after retired city workers sued could drain a special fund City Hall and unions use to pay employee benefits.
The deal has been two years in the making, but it’s been a secret for most of that time.
The partnership split homeless advocates: Some welcomed the additional dollars, arguing “more is better,” while others predicted they would function mainly to keep people off corporate property.
Heat kills hundreds of New Yorkers every summer - but health experts say a “cold weather bias” keeps policymakers from prioritizing the issue.
With the plan tied up in court, insurers Elevance Health and Empire BlueCross BlueShield pulled out of a controversial deal to switch retired city workers to privately run health insurance.
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.
Officers trained for the NYPD’s new Neighborhood Safety Teams average nearly double the number of substantiated civilian complaints than the NYPD as a whole.
A new four-judge bloc has consistently voted together in its most recent term, impacting criminal defendants, workers and people suing police.