The state’s top education officials head to the hot seat Thursday for a lengthy budget hearing. Here are some questions we’d put on the table.
New York State troopers used the badge to settle personal scores and elicit favors. Still, they remained on the job, an investigation found.
Lawmakers will be grilling top state energy and environmental officials Wednesday in a marathon budget hearing. Here are some of the questions we’d ask.
Nine months after the prison guard strike, incarcerated people are being denied early release after not completing programming that they don’t have access to.
Some officials and residents in Cheektowaga want a broader overhaul of their cops’ interactions with immigration agents.
The governor’s campaign got an influx of donations from theater producers as its trade group lobbied her office to “enhance” the credit.
The governor’s meeting logs are 15 months out of date, and she won’t release her calendar.
New York Focus interviewed Lieutenant Governor Antonio Delgado as he challenges his boss for the Democratic nomination for governor.
State regulators ignored FBI evidence of horse drug purchases for years. That was a “huge failing,” a key assemblymember said.
Hochul outlined a slew of proposals on Tuesday to curb energy bills and clean up the grid, but her push for a nuclear energy renaissance looms over them all.
Hochul has proposed a multibillion-dollar plan that she says would ultimately deliver free child care to every New York family — without tapping additional revenue sources.
On criminal justice, there were notable omissions in the governor’s address.
The governor’s vision for tackling historic cuts to public benefit programs remains blurry.
New York’s building trade unions are turning out in force to try to save the mammoth energy projects from Trump’s latest attack.
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.
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.