Here’s what the key players in the state budget process are proposing on spending and taxes.
They got tens of millions of taxpayer dollars to defend Andrew Cuomo against scandal. Now, they’re helping fund his comeback.
In many cases, electrifying homes is cheaper, according to one new study.
No time to read our big investigation? Here’s a quick summary of everything you need to know.
The secretive units have fallen short on their promise to help wrongfully convicted New Yorkers.
A New York Focus investigation reveals how party officials and politically connected law firms continue to profit from court-appointed roles.
Former prison agency staff and newly released documents describe a patronage network centered on Commissioner Daniel Martuscello III’s family.
This isn’t Daniel Martuscello’s first crisis. An investigation reveals how his family weathered one scandal after another on their road to dominating New York’s prison system.
The state is pushing ahead on all-electric buildings, but a draft update to the building code leaves out other key recommendations from the state’s climate plan.
Absent more money from the state, city officials warn that they will hit a funding cliff as early as April.
The state has yet to publish a building code update, promised in December, which should include requirements to phase out fossil fuel appliances in new homes.
New state education rules will cut funding to private schools that can’t provide the same level of education as public schools. The ultra-Orthodox community is fighting back.
With nearly all of New York’s state prisons on lockdown, those on the inside struggle to get by.
The Trump administration, eager to force local officials to collaborate with ICE, is coming for a Tompkins County sheriff who released a man who’d served his sentence.
The HALT Solitary Confinement Act altered the balance of power within New York’s prisons.
A legally mandated program to reimburse organ donors has languished since 2022. The health department now says it’ll fix that this year.
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The social services commissioner says New York wants to join other states adopting more secure cards, but lacks funds for the upgrade.
Our investigation identified dozens of cases in which a wrongful conviction unit denied someone’s application, only for a judge to later exonerate them.
The health commissioner has asked the state’s Attorney General and lobbyist watchdog to launch a ‘formal inquiry.’