How a lack of stable housing, combined with bureaucratic hurdles in New York’s labyrinthine re-entry process, kept one man at Rikers during the height of its crisis.

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.

This time, workers are trying to unionize just one warehouse, where they say they’ve gotten a majority of workers to sign union authorization cards.

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.

An NLRB ruling on a grievance made by striking Columbia student workers could suggest the board’s approach to a major question about the legal status of student workers.

Retired city employees will be able to opt out of their newly-privatized health insurance until June 30, the judge ruled

A recent report renewed a decades-long debate over a regulatory requirement that cell towers in Adirondack Park be “substantially invisible.”

Guides sent to a quarter million retired city employees contained false information on the availability of dozens of treatments under the new plan.

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.

A proposed gas ban has pitted ConEd against big oil, real estate lobbyists, and other investor-owned utilities.

The Court of Appeals found in favor of banks that complained cases were dropped on technicalities. Now homeowners across the state are bracing for new attempts to take away their homes.

Buffalo Appellate Judge Shirley Troutman is widely seen as well qualified, but some worry that she will accentuate the Court of Appeals’ prosecutorial leanings

Daequan Smith loved working at an Amazon warehouse in Staten Island. After he started organizing with the Amazon Labor Union, he found himself out of a job.

Millions of New Yorkers are behind on their utility bills, and advocates say the state is doing a poor job distributing federal assistance.

The fight heated up at a hearing Wednesday, with debate centered on when, not if, a gas ban should go into effect.

Two bills to incentivize kidney donations could save hundreds of lives a year – but supporters say it’s tough to get the legislature to prioritize the issue.